Leonardo Caproni

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) landraces in Mozambique and neighbouring Southern African countries harbour genetic loci with potential for climate adaptation - Communications Biology Smallholder-maintained cowpea varieties in Southern Africa hold valuable genetic traits for adapting to a changing climate, offering key insights for breeding resilient crops and strengthening future ...

Smallholder-maintained #cowpea varieties in Southern Africa hold valuable genetic traits for adapting to a changing climate, offering key insights for breeding resilient #crops and strengthening future food security.🌍 @mdellacq.bsky.social
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09.06.2025 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A universally applicable definition for domestication | PNAS The process of domestication is commonly perceived as a human achievement, and domestic species are typically assumed to be those under human contr...

I generally dislike this kind of perspective and argument about semantics. But I very much liked this one. My own definition of domestication has been basically this for some time, but the authors lay it out better than I could have, with lots of relevant arguments about the nature of domestication.

20.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Genetic basis of Fusarium ear rot resistance and productivity traits in a heterozygous multi-parent recombinant inbred intercross (RIX) maize population | BMC Plant Biology

Discover our latest research article where we explored a recombinant inbred intercross population🌽🔍
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16.05.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe - Nature Communications Global catastrophes such as nuclear war can generate soot that reduces the amount of light reaching the earth’s surface. Here the authors model how this kind of catastrophe would impact common crop gr...

new paper in @natcomms.nature.com by my former student @chloeemc.bsky.social on nuclear winter impacts on crops
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

09.05.2025 14:42 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Early bird deadline is fast approaching (16/05)

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28.04.2025 13:11 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Maize field trials at Niab as part of the CAPITALISE research. Photo credit: John Ferguson.

A new study from @plantphys-cam.bsky.social has found new genetic factors behind photosynthesis in maize - offering a valuable new approach to improving crop productivity.

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30.04.2025 10:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

You hold a Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in data science, bioinformatics, computational biology, genetics, or a closely related field? And you have strong interest in plant genomics and machine learning? Then we have a job offer at @leibnizipk.bsky.social!

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22.04.2025 07:59 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

please share - 2 postdoc positions available - molecular physiology of stomata and plant water use of efficiency
lab.igb.illinois.edu/leakey/post-... @ripeproject.bsky.social @aspbofficial.bsky.social

24.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 33    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 0

A deficient CP24 allele defines variation for dynamic non-photochemical quenching and photosystem II efficiency in maize (John N Ferguson, Leonardo Caproni, Julia Walter, Katie Shaw, Lucia Arce-Cubas, et. al.) academic.oup.com/plcell/advan... #PlantScience

01.04.2025 12:54 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1