From distant dream to reality- Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assemblies are transforming crop improvement! Learn more about the status of T2T, strategies & their potential from our latest Review article rdcu.be/dOSkh published in Nature Genetics

Oats Avena: Qing Liu puts mitochondrial genome assembly into wider context of evolution of her Avena genome assemblies and polyploid chromosomal rearrangements, with organelle-nuclear sequence transfer #IBC2024 link.springer.com/article/10.118… genome expansion: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Doug Soltis & Mark Chase moves to APG5 APGV. Shows phylogenetics corrected w DNA taxonomy: Nymphaea not close to Nelumbo etc! Base pattern settled but more needed, integrating incongruent nuclear/chloroplast trees. #IBC2024 I love Cronquist's bubbles & Dahlgren's Dahlgrenograms!

The horrors of live X-ing or whatever it is now, and copying tags on 2 platforms! Mike Barker Mike Barker (@barkerms.bsky.social) had the inspiring polyploid keynote this morning #IBC2024 Apologirs!

Shout out to AV audiovisual crews IFEMA MADRID Madrid venue for #IBC2024 Excellent sound and projection in all rooms of the conference. Lots of things I don't like here but most important is seeing and hearing people and slides so clearly.

What to do with nom. indet. unnamed herbarium specimens? Another challenge is whether to accession ?1000s of crop genotypes: many hybrids, species back-crosses, big variants from intense selection or domestication. Some with lots of morphometrics, traits and genomics. #IBC2024

A difficult choice at 8.30 Saturday for me with two brilliant colleagues talking: Muthama Muasya on African Flora in N104; and Toby Kellogg on 20 million years of grass evolution in N103 #IBC2024

Aaahhh. Choice made between Muthama Muasya and Toby Kellogg at 8.30 in N104 & N103. Neither. Sorry. I'm Feeling fine, as expected from 8am starts and 1am finishes: Thought I'd use the last test I've got. Stay well all. #IBC2024 #COVID19 #Covid_19

Nice to see the important 18th century woman botanist and taxonomist Jeanne Baret or Jane Barret recognized by #OlympicGames #IBC2024 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Ba…

John Pannell Lausanne gives a comprehensive talk on dioecy, monoecy, and resource allocation with floristics, ecology, genetics & genomics. I've had enough of online talks, but needed for me today. Super integration of diverse publications. #IBC2024 scholar.google.se/citations?user…

Muthama Muasya Cape Town goes through special & unique African habitats and traits with unique evolutionary opportunities: C4, spines, epiphytes, underground structures, fire, trees/shrubs in Annals of Botany @AoBPlants @InSilicoPlants talk (report @TrudeSch as I'm isolated) #IBC2024

🌍Outstanding keynote lecture at #ibc2024 by Annals of Botany handling editor Muthama Muasya 🌿Take-home messages: Africa's current biodiversity is driven by its ancient landscape, stable climate, historical land bridge with Eurasia, Miocene volcanism, and origin of open habitat lineages

After Muthama Muasya 's talk, I'm even more looking forward to IBC Cape Town 2029 #IBC2029 #IBCXXI in Greater Cape Floristic Region #biodiversity hotspot with <<1% of area but 20% of African diversity. #IBC2024 and wonderful science in Capetown, Stellenbosch, Kirstenbosch & beyond

#polyploidy_session at #IBC2024 starts with Terezie Mandakova Terezie Mandakova presenting about diploidization and diversification through dysploid changes. Microlepidieae (MICR) originated via an inter-tribal hybridization 8-12 MYA. Then dispersed & diversified in Australia (1/3)

I've missed urban garden/regreening sessions I joined in #IBCXiX #IBC2017 Shenzhen at #IBC2024 - the value of herbaria linked to gardens, genomic & germplasm resource collections, together underpinning #biodiversity & phylogeny- evolutionary measures with immediate public benefit

Our Food from grass: Genetics and Digital Twins to optimize sustainability, including methane greenhouse gas reduction approaches, ready for science area UKDairyDay #DairyDay Looking forward to seeing the best stock and best farming anywhere next week

Food from Grass: Genetics and Digital Twins to optimize ruminant agricultural sustainability molcyt.org/2024/09/10/foo… for UKDairyDay showcasing the best genetics, husbandry and technology for milk production