Thanks Nick! Really enjoying working on this project - can’t wait for the next few flowers!! 🌸🌺🌼

Friday Flower 006: Aquilegia 🌸🦋

Columbines vary in stamen number, making them a powerful model for how floral whorls expand.

Darwin marveled at their long nectar spurs, which co-evolve with hawkmoth tongues to reward pollinators that brush the stamens ✨

I'M LATE FOR BUGS

Friday Flower 002: Mirabilis jalapa🌺✨

Four O’Clocks, like other Caryophyllales, produce red (betacyanins) and yellow (betaxanthins) petal sectors through differential regulation of betalain biosynthesis during corolla development.

Friday Flower 001: Mimulus lewisii 🌸✨

Monkeyflowers are masterpieces of design with nectar-guide spots formed by an activator–inhibitor system of MYB transcription factors. These generate reaction–diffusion patterns across the ventral petal.

First of the Friday Flower Concepts series coming tomorrow! 🌹✨

Can you guess the first flower?

1st western blot vs. 128th western blot 🧪
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#science #westernblot #predoc #labscientist

💡Can we use network structure 🏁 to infer underlying genetics 🧬 of host – parasite coevolution?

🔎Find out in our new paper 🥳, published in the latest issue of @journal-evo.bsky.social 👇
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
#Parasite #EvolutionaryBiology #MicrobialEvolution

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Finally finished the right page on my August 2021 moth survey from my IL Prairie Nature Journal. Just love the diversity of all these moths from the Midwest!
#SciArt #moths #naturejournal #prairie

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S ONLY EIGHT LEIBNIZ!?!?

🎉Thrilled to share our latest work, now published in @newphyt.bsky.social!

🧑‍🔬 @matteogravino.bsky.social, @samtmugford.bsky.social, @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al., @johninnescentre.bsky.social

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity

📄 Read the full paper👇
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/8QSRJ9...

oh the irony …

This is exactly what happens inside our sequencing machines. 😌

We are excited to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@matteogravino.bsky.social @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social
, @johninnescentre.bsky.social
) on plant-aphid interactions, showing that the aphid effector Mp10 balances suppression of DAMP responses and activation of ETI via EDS1.

Our preprint is now live! We have sequenced the genomes of three psyllid species. These insects pests transmit devastating plant diseases like 'zebra chip' in potatoes and 'carrot yellows' in carrots. 🥕

#MolecularEntomology #MPMI #PlantPathology #psyllids #liberibacter

Really enjoyed giving my talk today for APH day on the work I’ve done for my predoc project so far! 🧪
#science

We're happy to present a pre-print from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social), describing how a family of proteases in aphid oral secretions suppress plant immunity.

We’re delighted to share our latest preprint from the Hogenhout lab (@saskiahogenhout.bsky.social) on the molecular mechanisms on plant-aphid interactions. Here we show how the aphid Mp10 effector protein acts as a local anaesthetic to suppress the plant perception of aphid attack

Thank you for 100 followers! 🪲

Post a picture you took to bring some zen to the skyline 🦋

But can it run a gel?

Leafhoppers are not phytoplasmas... #NatureRipoffs @Nature

"Similarly, SAP05 from the plant parasite Macrosteles quadrilineatus was found to target host transcription factors to the proteasome in a process that is key to the life cycle of the parasite..." doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Hi everyone! Just wanted introduce myself as a newbie here :) my name’s Amber and I like bugs, frogs, mushrooms and drawing! I’m currently doing a Predoc characterising Phytoplasma effectors and soon applying for PhD projects! 🐛 Here’s a picture of me and a scarlet tiger moth that landed on my arm 🦋