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Eduardo de la Peña
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Professor at Ghent University, Department of Plants and Crops @UGent plant production, crop protection, agro-diversity RT≠endorse
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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 22h
The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.
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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 21h
📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu

➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries

More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x
High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 2d
In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets
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In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets
Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.
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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 3d
Hoverflies on oil rigs… read this blog I wrote on our most recent lab paper exploring this phenomenon.
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 6d
"This study utilises samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of #hoverflies and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance #pollination."🛢️
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 3d
A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 4d
When you think of cotton, the first thing that probably comes to mind is clothing. And while this is cotton's main use, its importance extends far beyond apparel.

Keep reading to learn some interesting facts about cotton ahead of this #WorldCottonDay on 7 October🧵👇🏼
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 4d
Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America

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#TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social

@uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci

Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.
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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 4d
And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯
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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 5d
Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!
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GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 5d
How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus
Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 5d
The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR
Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene
The projected loss of glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada is likely unprecedented in at least the past 30,000 years.
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EFSA Plants @efsa-plants.bsky.social · 6d
🔎Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, commonly known as grapevine #phylloxera, is an invasive #pest of #grapevines and a protected zone quarantine pest in Cyprus.

📖Explore the newly published EFSA interactive Story Map: link.europa.eu/F4Y8Pd

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Vineyards (Vitis spp.) (Source: Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org) Different life stages of Daktulosphaira vitifoliae: (A) eggs, (B) larva on root of grapevine, (C) female with eggs and (D) adult (Sources: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institute für Pflanzenschutz im Weinbau (DE) (A); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Denis Kasatkin (B, C); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Jean-François Germain, Plant Health Laboratory, Montpellier (FR) (D)).
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d
What a wild plant-pathosystem reveals about local #adaptation between hosts and #pathogens and the implications for cultivars under climate change

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👆 A #Commentary on this article by VanWallendael et al. 👇

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Comparing two methods for testing parasite local adaptation, a parasite reciprocal transplant (AC) and a host reciprocal transplant (BD; this study).
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 8d
Despite what its detractors say, a clear - and in most member states very large - majority of EU citizens believe that their country has benefited from EU membership.

The UK benefited a lot from EU membership too, despite the Brexiter lies.

It's time to plan to rejoin!
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 6d
On the cover of our #LatestIssue: #Nectar collecting at the tip of the stigma in Agapetes lacei (Ericaceae). Photo by Evin Magner, courtesy of the University of Minnesota CBS Conservatory.

📖 See Virtual Issue: Nectar and nectaries
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

#PlantScience
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Yags 🇦🇷 @yagerme1ster.bsky.social · 7d
Los nueve pelajes de jirafa 🦒 Durante mucho tiempo se pensó que cada uno correspondía a una subespecie de este bicho. Hoy eso quedó atrás: tenemos un total de cuatro especies distintas con algunas subespecies cada una. Por ejemplo, la jirafa del sur hoy incluye a la sudafricana y la angoleña ✍️
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 7d
Gries Glacier
1919 | 2025

Over last 12 months it has lost 6 meters in thickness at the bottom and even the top has melted! 🧊🔥

Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier lost 800 m in length, and is now 3.2 km shorter than in 1880! 📈

Average thickness, now only 57 m... 😱

Via @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
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BejaLab @bejalab.bsky.social · 14d
A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A haplotype-based evolutionary history of barley domestication - Nature
The evolutionary history of barley is analysed using ancient and modern DNA.
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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 7d
Interesting news from Enceladus 🔭🧪 @planetgreaves.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances
Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour life
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Chuzodepunta @chuzodepunta.bsky.social · 8d
Te equivocas al hacer una frase hecha y ya te queda el sanjacobo de inculto para toda la vida.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 8d
David Zinn. #Autumn Street Art. 🍂
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 7d
📰Published📰Meta-analysis reveals strong evidence for adaptive host and vector manipulation by plant viruses🦠

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Meta-analysis reveals strong evidence for adaptive host and vector manipulation by plant viruses
Quentin Chesnais, Christie A. Bahlai, Angela Peace, David W. Crowder, Nilsa A. Bosque-Pérez, Kerry E. Mauck This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be fo…
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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 8d
Join us as an observer at the 174th Plenary meeting of the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel).

📍 Parma, Italy
🗓 29 October 2025, 10:00–17:00
🗓 30 October 2025, 09:00–13:00

✍️ Register by 19 October for onsite or online participation.

More: link.europa.eu/gjW7WP

#OpenEFSA #GMOs
"EFSA announcement for the 174th Plenary Meeting of the GMO Panel, open to observers on 29-30 October 2025. Registration deadline is 19 October 2025. Green background with EFSA logo, #OpenEFSA hashtag, and partial image of a cow."
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Javier Martín @txaverius.bsky.social · 10d
Las hembras de abejas silvestres Megachile no transportan polen en sus patas, sino debajo del "abdomen" en unas bandas de pelos a modo de cepillo.

Aquí se ve bien la carga de polen distribuida en esas bandas ventrales (o escopa ventral). Lleva tanto polen que los pelos de transporte ya no se ven.
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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 11d
Iberian lynx with a rabbit for dinner, Sierra de Andújar, Andalucía. Stunning photo by @Swidstrand. Winner of the Rewilding Europe Awards 2024 www.gdtfoto.de/seiten/rewil...
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EFSA Plants @efsa-plants.bsky.social · 10d
📢The Pest Survey Card on #Carposina sasakii is now live!

🔎Discover our interactive #StoryMap and gain insights into detection and delimiting surveys for this pest: link.europa.eu/9yVJy7

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork
Adult of Carposina sasakii (Source: Mark Dreiling, Bugwood.org) Apple fruit infested by Carposina sasakii. Oozing produced by larval penetration into the fruit can be observed (Source: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Zhiwei Zhang (College of Forestry, Shanxi Agricultural University, China))
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