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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 1d

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 1d

It is an amazing paper!!! Something to present in the evolutionary biology classes. Thanks for including me. Happy to see that the idea for the gene family data analysis worked.

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Björn Usadel @usadellab.bsky.social · 12d

Anika in my department is looking for a Phd student on buckwheat stress responses. Maybe this is something for you?
#plantjobs
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PhD position in the field of plant sciences/transcriptome analyses

Do you want to contribute to sustainable plant use with your work? Then you are exactly right at the institute`s department Bioinformatics (IBG-4) of the Institute for Bio and Geosciences at the Forsc...

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Roberto Bassi closes the #SOLRUB2025 with an online plenary presentation about nature-based engineering of plant #photosynthesis.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Austin Hart closes the last session at the #SOLRUB2025 conference with a presentation about #tomato volatiles. There are two main BCAA-derived #volatile pathways in tomato. GWAS on a tomato population revealed 113 QTLs associated to BCAA derived volatiles. They identified several candidate genes.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Laura Van der Jeucht follows at #SOLRUB2025 with a presentation about how far-red light increases sugar content in #tomatoes. Far-red light exposure changes the plant architecture. Photosynthesis is not affected but the plant increases CO2 consumption. Sugar source content is increased.

Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Satya Swathi Nadakuduti follows in the #SOLRUB2025 meeting presenting about a #Rubicaceae species, Mitragyna speciosa, capable of produce #alkaloids with potential pharmaceutical applications.

Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Last day at the #SOLRUB2026 starts with a presentation by Antonio Granell from @ibmcp.bsky.social who is presenting about “how biotechnology can help us to design #tomato metabolic profiles”.

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

Pascal Martin follows at the #SOLRUB2025 with a presentation about endopolyploidy in #tomato fruit development. Endoduplication increases transcription. Changes in the chromatin accessibility contribute to ploidy-specific gene expression changes.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 13d

We come back from the coffee break at #SOLRUB2025 meeting with Magdalena Rossi who is presenting about the molecular mechanisms behind #tomato morphogenesis.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Pratima Debnath closes the #abiotic_stress session at the #SOLRUB2025 meeting with a presentation about heat stress response in #tomatoes. Plants present #thermal_memory which help to survive high temperatures after an adequate priming. She describes some candidate genes associated with this process

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Next speaker at #SOLRUB2025 is Sara Bergonzi which bring us their studies shout #potato cold and freezing tolerance. Usually potato varieties are frost sensitive. They found overlapping QTLs in several chromosomes for cold tolerance with several promising candidate genes.

Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Ivo Rieu follows in this morning session at the #SOLRUB2025. He presents about this important topic associated to #climate_change, heat tolerance in #tomatoes. Anther decrease in length with high temperatures reducing fruit-set. Breed new varieties to overcome this problem is needed.

Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Day 4 at #SOLRUB2025 starts with a #potato presentation by Salome Prat @cragenomica.bsky.social. She talks about the molecular players involved in the tuber formation. Tubers are modified branches. A SC-RNAseq experiment showed clear separation between vascular and storage cells in tubers.

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Stefan A. Rensing @rensingstefan.bsky.social · 14d

Here's 123 new bryophyte genomes for you!
Apparently, bryophytes time and again include microbial genes in their genomic repertoire, and occupy a langer gene space than vascular plants.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bryophytes hold a larger gene family space than vascular plants - Nature Genetics

A super-pangenome analysis incorporating 123 newly sequenced bryophyte genomes reveals that bryophytes exhibit a larger number of unique and lineage-specific gene families than vascular plants.

www.nature.com

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Lucas Munnes closes this Wednesday’s session at the #SOLRUB2025 presenting about a #pangenome in the Morelloid clade. Different species have different levels of polyploidy with S. nigrum being highest (6x). Synteny with S. americanum (2x). For nigrum subA ~ americanum. subB & subC ~ villosum (4x).

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Switching from biodiversity to the omics technologies session at the #SOLRUB2025. Presenting Adi Avni about plant-based sensors. The idea , convert plant gene responses in a signal read by an electrode that can transmit the information to a computer.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Vivien Joisten-Rosenthal follows with a presentation about the Alkakengi officinarum genome at the #SOLRUB2025. This species, although it is close related with the Physalis, presents important differences: bigger genome and moderate collinearity with Physalis. Its calyx is orange colored.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

An-Sofie Tas brings us a presentation of a wild coffee species, Coffea dactylifera, at #SOLRUB2035. She proposes the use of this species as alternative to the coffee crops although breeding is necessary. This species has a compact form, similar to arabica. It also has smaller beans and sweet taste.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Jean-Philippe Claude brings us his research at the #SOLRUB2025 about ecology and phenology of rubicaceae species in the Antilles. These islands have a high biodiversity driven by different habitats. The mountains produce different environments producing habitats for 6 rubicaceae species.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Nice presentation by Martina Stromvik at the #SOLRUB2025aboit the #allotetraploid potato species, Solanum acaule. This species has been used to introgress cold tolerance into some potato varieties like Viking. One of the ancestral parents remains elusive in its identification.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Arnaud Bovy presents us at #SOLRUB2025 about the increased firmness in the Ty1 introgression in #tomato. This introgression comes from S. chilense LA1969 and it is located in chromosome 6.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Naama Menda presents now the Sol Genomics Network (SGN) database and the BreedBase system at the #SOLRUB2025. SGN is a #Solanaceae based database with genomes, transcriptomic data, metabolic pathways, and manually curated genes.

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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 14d

Erin P. Rini follows at #SOLRUB2025 with a #pepper presentation about the screening of a germplasm bank for a resistance to #white_flies. Trichomes, cuticles and secondary metabolism compounds (phenolic acids) are three of the resistance mechanisms in pepper against this pest.