#plant genetics

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

we are not getting out of the plant blog allegations with this one

#the left is lettuce and the right is cabbage (brassica) if that was not clear #i am a brassica stan through and through #biology #botany #plant genetics #idek what these tags are i need to sort these at some point

[kp777]

This corn was down to its last two cobs. Now it could help farmers grow food in the climate crisis | CNN

#jimmy red corn #plant genetics #climate crisis #climate change

[faultfalha]

The Solanum americanum genome has been used to discover immune receptors that detect potato late blight pathogen effectors. The discovery could lead to the development of new, more effective ways to fight the late blight pathogen.

#Genomics #Plant genetics #Biomedicine #general #Human Genetics #Cancer Research #Agriculture #Gene Function #Animal Genetics and Genomics #fault #Solanum americanum #genome #immune receptors #late blight pathogen #effectors #development

[autumnhortsnort]

Plants are so weird sometimes

This watermelon is kind of special.

All of the female flowers on this watermelon plant are hermaphroditic. Which is weird because I cross pollinated the parents so I know both parents had typical flower arrangements of male and female.

The male flowers are normal.

I'll definitely keep the seeds from this one.

#i did have a plant do this one year with its first couple flowers with ovaries #and it was the same cultivar as this plants pollen parent #but that was years before i did this cross #gardening #watermelon #plant genetics

[hellsitegenetics]

hello there hellsite genetics! i need some inspiration for an oc, and im stumped. theres simply too many great creatures out there! so instead of worrying abt what creature cld possibly be the best fit, i’ve come to you in search of help :) whatever Beastie or Organism this ask generates will be my new oc inspiration hooray

String identified: t t gtc! at a c, a t. t t a gat cat t t! ta g at at cat c t t t, ’ c t ac :) at at ga t a gat c at a

Closest match: Fragaria x ananassa cultivar Benihoppe chromosome 7 Common name: Strawberry

(image source)

#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #requests #sent to me #fruits #flowers #plants #strawberry #incredibly lucky

[reasonsforhope]

"A company in France has developed genetically-enhanced houseplants that remove 30 times more indoor air pollutants than your normal ficus.

Paint, treated wood, household cleaners, insulation, unseen mold—there is a shopping list of things that can fill the air you breathe in your home with VOCs or volatile organic compounds. These include formaldehyde and other airborne substances that can cause inflammation and irritation in the body.

The best way to tackle this little-discussed private health problem is by keeping good outdoor airflow into your living spaces, but in the dog days of summer or the depths of a Maine winter, that might not be possible.

Houseplants can remove these pollutants from the air, and so the company Neoplants decided to make simple alterations to these species’ genetic makeup to supercharge this cleaning ability.

In particular, houseplants’ natural ability to absorb pollutants like formaldehyde relies on them storing them as toxins to be excreted later.

French scientists and Neoplants’ co-founders Lionel Mora and Patrick Torbey engineered a houseplant to convert them instead to plant matter. They also took aim at the natural microbiome of houseplants to enhance their ability to absorb and process VOCs as well.

The company’s first offering—the Neo P1—is a Devil’s ivy plant that sits on a custom-designed tall stand that both maximizes its air-cleaning properties and allows it to be watered far less often.

Initial testing, conducted by the Ecole Mines-Telecom of Lille University, shows that if you do choose to shell out the $179 for the Neo P1, it’s as if you were buying 30 houseplants. Of course, if you went for the budget route of 30 houseplants, you’d have to water them all.

The founders pointed out in an interview done with Forbes last year that once they settled on the species and fixed the winning genetic phenotype, the next part of the process was just raising plants, the same activity done in every nursery and florist in every town in Europe."

Deliveries for the P1 are estimated for August 2024.

-via Good News Network, November 6, 2023

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Note: I'm not a plant biologist, but if this works the way the company's white paper says it does, holy genetic engineering, Batman.

(Would love to hear thoughts from anyone who is a plant biologist or other relevant field!)

#plant biology #superplant #pollution #indoor plants #plantblr #house plants #plantlife #hope posting #solarpunk #small business #genetic engineering #genetics #molecular biology #microbiome #respiratory health #france #ivy

[mindblowingscience]

Grass may transfer genes from their neighbors in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed. Research, led by the University of Sheffield, is the first to show the frequency at which grasses incorporate DNA from other species into their genomes through a process known as lateral gene transfer. The stolen genetic secrets give them an evolutionary advantage by allowing them to grow faster, bigger or stronger and adapt to new environments quicker.

Continue Reading.

#Grass #Grasses #Botany #Plants #Genetics #Lateral gene transfer

[katiajewelbox]

The surprising diversity of Pineapples (Ananas comosus).

The Active Pineapple Germplasm Bank (Pineapple AGB) of Embrapa Cassava & Fruits (Embrapa/ CNPMF) has more than 700 accessions under field conditions. As backups, there are copies kept in a greenhouse, with one or two plants per accession, cultivated in plastic pots with commercial substrate. An in vitro gene bank was established in 2003, and during the past few years, several studies have been carried out to improve the in vitro conservation protocol. Currently, about 60% of the AGB’s accessions are preserved by this protocol. Another conservation strategy used is cryopreservation of shoot tips and pollen grains, with well-defined methods. One of the most significant advances in the pineapple germplasm conservation has been the implementation of a quality control system, which enabled to define standard operation procedures (SOP) towards a more efficient and safer germplasm conservation.

Source:

Vidigal Souza, Fernanda & Souza, Everton & Aud, Fabiana & Costa, Eva & Silva, Paulo & Andrade, Eduardo & Rebouças, Danilo & Andrade, Danilo & Sousa, Andressa & Pugas, Carlos & Rebouças, Érica & França, Beatriz & França, Rivã. (2022). Advances in the conservation of pineapple genetic resources at Embrapa Cassava and Fruits. 28. 28-33.

#katia plant scientist #botany #plant biology #plant science #plants #fruit #pineapple #pineapples #biodiversity #agriculture #conservation #genetic diversity #sustainable agriculture #tropical plants #science #biology

[chiquilines]

Yeah yeah genderswap kiribaku are getting me through the week what about it

#i cant decide if i like fem bakugo better with long or short hair #these are fairly low quality doodles but guys i am STRESSED #this is a lil sigh of relief before i go back to the academic grind #have i mentioned how much i hate essay writing #because genuinely i do #im a stem kid leave me aloneeeee #anyways them!! #personally i think bakugo would be a chem kid #and you can tell thats a genuine headcanon cause i hate chemistry #kiri would be more bio oriented but def skewed towards plants/animals bio rather than like lab/genetics bio #again genuine headcanon because i have a blood rivalry with bio kids #physics ftw🥳 #kirishima ejirou #bakugo katuski #kiribaku #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #wlw #chiquilines draws

[intrinsically-disordered-proxein]

#i didnt make this credit to my friend ubro for making the funniest shit alive #they gave me permission to post #ophioglossum reticulatum #biology #meme #botany #i think #ferns #plant biology #plant genetics #dude these guys are so fucked up #acamemeia

[babblingbat]

I want to know what I'm working with for basic plant knowledge! Still related to my currently-pending bryophyte infographic.

#plants #genetics #poll #mine #idfk what to tag this with #it's a really niche poll give it a whirl

[nighttimepatrons]

Erestor and Glorfindel: *unamicably forced into marriage for whatever reason*

Glorfindel: I will never share my interests with him.

Glorfindel, 50 years later: Please, my pea plants.

#glorfindel trying to breed weird ass plants and learn plant genetics is just... so fucking funny to me #glorfindel #glorestor #middle earth #this is based on the iconic heathcliffgirl's post

[hellsitegenetics]

I’m obsessed with your entire blog premise and so curious about your backstory. were you a geneticist denied funding so you went rogue and now you’re collecting all genome sequences to enact revenge? are you perhaps a scientist from the Jurassic park universe making sure none of your secret dinosaur dna sequences escape containment? are you italian

String identified: ’ t t g a c at act. a gtct g t g a ’ cctg a g c t act g? a a a ctt t ac a ag ct a a c ca ctat? a taa

Closest match: Capsicum rhomboideum cultivar Andean isolate CrT2T chromosome 3

#tumblr genetics #genetics #asks #plants #peppers #cw italian mention

[prince-liest]

Still in the bag!

Meet Fairy!! Um... again. quq

I go to my LFS on Fridays so that I can see their shipments before the weekend crowd gets in, and the downside of this is that all the fish are on the pale side from stress because of their recent travel and unpacking. However, when I found her in the tank, she had a very clear horizontal brown stripe, which makes me certain that this honey gourami is female! She lost it in the bag here (again, due to the stress of traveling in my car), but she colored up in the tank within minutes.

feat. Jin Ling lurking in the back like a serial killer

All of the neon tetras were very interested in greeting her. Please just imagine that seagull scene from Finding Nemo where they're all going, "Mine?!" except it's my obese tetras chanting, "Food?!"

No. Fish are friends, not food. How are you this fat, I barely feed you any more!! I'm convinced they've figured out how to bite off the bottom feeder pellets I give the loaches once they soften up a bit.

I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU

Here she is trying to give Jin Ling a handshake with her feeler fins. He's not very receptive to friendship right now because he's got his breeding stripes on and is building a comically oversized bubble nest in that corner of the tank, but I'm hoping they get along once he calms down and feels less territorial. She definitely isn't as skittish as he is, and he stops chasing her once she leaves his bubble nest corner alone.

If I looked like that I'd admire my own reflection, too.

Overall, she is a very pretty and sweet fish! Even if it is difficult to take non-blurry photos of her due to how quick she is. I have high hopes that she will adapt well to the tank. Everyone in it is healthy, so if she survives the overall stress of transport and makes it the next few days, things should hopefully turn out great!

#aquariums #fishblr #fish #planted tank #honey gourami #personal #take 2! #if you haven't seen my previous fish post: unfortunately the original Fairy turned out to be a thicklip gourami hybrid not a honey gourami #and she passed away after a few days despite the promising start and the good health of the rest of the tank #I have higher hopes for this Fairy because the thicklip hybrids have similar genetic issues to dwarf gouramis #and honeys are generally more hardy #fingers crossed!!! #long post #text post

[exilley]

may i hear about ivy the oc

I will gladly tell you about her :3

Ivy Aroid is the daughter of a fallen clan of nobles in a monarchical aristocracy. The world this character exists within is one domineered by gods, or more plainly and literally, immortals in charge of governing the metaphysical wellbeing of the universe, but that’s its own lore dump. In short, the world is split into nation-like factions that hundreds of different gods have individual claim over. The citizens of each faction are bound by social expectation to follow their patron god’s doctrine and organize themselves according to the ideals of said god. In Ivy’s case, that doctrine and those ideals entail a social structure that splits a so-called Burden of Coexistence that splits the population into two classes of people: Aristocrats who may become either a Scholar or a Warrior, and Tradesmen who can become a Healer or Artisan (these four categories are a universal standard, but how a god interprets which kinds of work fall under which label is completely up to their whim, as is the manner in which the classes are implemented in society).

Ivy’s family was one of many who fell off politically following a long and complicated ordeal with what was functionally the ruling clan of monarchs of a few generations past. The clan’s rule has left the country (ahem faction) in economic and social disarray, and Aristocrats are all vying to gain power in the midst of a power vacuum opening up. The Aroids are particularly aggressive in their pursuit and the family heads have abused their children to that end, Ivy included. But she’s intelligent and, in her adolescence, grows to become keenly aware of her situation. So she starts to play a character— that of a cunning, manipulative, unfeeling agent who would do everything in her power to climb the ranks. It’s a bid to reclaim what she’s been through; convincing herself she chose to be a bad person and reclaiming autonomy over her survival response, which was to distance herself from people and become the perfect pawn for her clan’s re-ascension. To this end she did a lot of reprehensible things, including but not limited to, blackmail, sexual exploitation, stealing, lying, cheating, and making threats of emotional or physical violence to her interpersonal circle. She lives in a society that is cruel by nature and she embodies that cruelty perfectly, as a medley of tragedy and hurt that can only exist alongside one another. She does what she must to climb the ranks for both herself and her clan, but the line between what she must do and what she wants to do are blurry and indefinite.

And then comes around the congregational season, where all aristocrats are invited to the oldest temple in the nation faction for a ball commemorating a celestial event in which the two moons are both visible and full at the same time— something that only occurs once every other year. It’s at this event that Ivy meets Yeonzhun, the person who would change the trajectory of her life forever. They hit it off really well, since they shared a lot of similar views on politics and had a lot of commonalities outside of their politics as well. Mostly, Ivy was drawn to him/her (Yeon is markedly a transgressor of the binary so regardless of the spiritual canon I use both she/he for her) for reasons that vaguely border on attraction but ultimately I have elected never to clarify. They continue to exchange letters with each other as they lived their lives, Yeon wrapping up military academy and Ivy acting as a subordinate diplomat for another, more powerful clan.

At this point, I should mention that Ivy has established many connections all over, but her primary contacts are illicit: the coven of rebels who seek to overthrow the regime of the gods and overturn the world order so that mortals have complete self-determinative capacity. This coven extends worldwide and is comprised of a mix of Rogues (a fifth category of person, who, loosely defined, are those who have abandoned their faction’s subservience to their patron and were exiled as punishment), descendants of a “cursed” bloodline (heavy quotes there because whether the bloodline is actually cursed or not is up for interpretation), and those with status in their respective factions who secretly wish to abolish the status quo. This may initially seem at conflict with Ivy’s character, since it goes against the grain of her intended to be a symbol of the cycle the people are trapped within, but consider that she is foremost contextualized by her desire to have control over her role in society. That she wants tangible authority and power to mitigate her internalized anxieties of being deprived of control is not necessarily at odds with the idea that she contends with guilt and shame over having done bad things in the name of a poorly justified cause. She doesn’t enjoy being trapped in the cave any more than the next guy.

After several exchanges with Yeon over letters, she one day asks if Yeon would be interested in joining the rebel forces with her. Of course, she was aware of the implications of roping Yeonzhun, an aristocrat who by far outranked her and had her own slew of baggage, into something like the rebellion, but there was just too much she admired and loved about him that she felt it would be disingenuous to not reveal this side of herself to her. Yeonzhun accepted in a heartbeat, and after receiving the reply, Ivy basically swore a vow of servitude to Yeonzhun, to help her achieve what she herself had suffered through years of agony for. Yeonzhun was not just a genuine companion to Ivy; he began to epitomize the concept of hope and strength for her. There was so much that she lamented or regretted doing and Yeonzhun was the outlet for that self-hatred. Symbolically, and literally, Yeonzhun became Ivy’s new patron god.

It’s the kind of romanticism you’d write a line like “If the heavens were a tree, I would grab the trunk and shake the branches to fell the fruits of my sins for you” for.

And uh… commit sins she does! Because once Yeonzhun comes out of the military academy and Ivy found an opportunity to resign from her position, the two become a pretty infamous duo. And the closer they grew in person and the older they aged together, Ivy came to realize the one thing that kept Yeonzhun from snapping was her stubborn belief in the goodness of people. Ivy did not ever once think less of her for this in spite of her experiences. Rather, it was a trait that she considered to be one of Yeonzhun’s most admirable qualities. But Yeonzhun is not a politican like Ivy, she’s a fighter. A Warrior. It’s a point where their similarities dissipate into differences. And Ivy, with all of her jaded optimism, who at this point truly only desired for Yeonzhun’s ideals to become a reality as it represented the best possible version of Ivy’s (at least, in Ivy’s perspective), came to the conclusion that the best way to help Yeonzhun realize his goals was to betray him and face the consequence of certain vengeance/death by his hands.

So that’s exactly what Ivy did. She betrayed him by leaking to some of the brass she was connected to that Yeonzhun was part of the rebellion, and should thusly be exiled from the Aristocrat class as punishment. In the months after Yeon’s exile, Ivy mostly retreated into herself and spent the days contemplating what she’d done with her life and how she ended up here. In the end, she did exactly as her parents wanted: to rise up the ranks and bring the Aroid clan back into prominence. She basically set that motion into stone with her betrayal of Yeonzhun, since it earned her a lot of respect, awe, and fear. But she also accomplished the complete opposite of her efforts to defy that initial compulsion, which was to play the game for herself and herself only, by tying her whole being to Yeonzhun. And, of course, when Yeonzhun makes a return leading a group of rebels driven by the shared anger of being sold out by who they all thought was a close comrade, Ivy’s throat is cut by Yeonzhun himself.

Such is the entire story summed up neatly. You will notice that it’s long, so I had to cut out basically every detail related to Yeonzhun to keep it a somewhat reasonable length. But knowing Yeon’s deal makes Ivy’s fascination and infatuation with her very clear I promise. It all makes sense

#jin responds #oc tag #btw i took ivy’s name from the devil’s ivy plant #they are distinguished by their ‘’shy flowering nature’’ (so titled by wikipedia) #due to the fact that they have the genes of a flowering plant or angiosperm but are genetically wired not to be able to express that trait #smiles at you

[rhineposting]

Dvalin/Durin would be an age gap ship but I don't think we're ready to have that conversation without someone pulling out pitchforks and torches.

#durin genshin #dvalin genshin #genshin #genshin impact #dragon yaoi 2 the electric boogaloo except a bit. uh oh. no good very bad (in a fun way) #let's be real between all the rhinechildren only elynas has his shit together the rest is genetically incapable of making reasonable choices #like not raising a man eating plant to kill your younger brother for you #or not getting attached to a cosmos travelling entity