Julio Bernal

An ancient origin of the naked grains of maize | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance Huanglongbing (HLB) is a devastating citrus disease. In this work, we report an HLB resistance regulatory circuit in Citrus composed of an E3 ubiquitin ligase, PUB21, and its substrate, the MYC2 trans...

Targeted MYC2 stabilization confers citrus Huanglongbing resistance | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A natural defense against plant disease Wild citrus plants contain a natural defense against a devastating bacterial disease

A natural defense against plant disease | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? Poor soils and dry climate could undermine effort to expand rice growing by 1 million hectares, experts warn

Is Indonesia’s planned rice megaproject doomed to fail? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland

EXPLORER 1: that assumes that this land was lost, though someone clearly lives here, try harder

THANK YOU: "Also: Pro-tip to Americans: Please stop saying "Guac" when you order guacamole in your burrito at Chipotle Mexican Grill. Whenever you utter this abbreviation a little Nahuatl speaking kitten (and its Mexican Spanish-speaking best friend) somewhere dies."

Thanks!!

What is the Nahuatl meaning? I faintly remember reading somewhere that it relates to testicle. How bad is my memory?

Greatness is in the agency of others (alliances). We are becoming less great.

Gel insoles will give you half one size...

Juan Rulfo
Octavio Paz
José Saramago
Pablo Neruda
Carlos Fuentes

A gift from good friend Esaú de la Vega, from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala, 🇲🇽

Modern-day Mayans should sue the creators of Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtles, just saying... where's lawyer Jackie Chiles when he's needed?

Direct and interactive effects of crop domestication and mineral fertilization over leaf traits: insights from squash, maize, and beans - Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution Although crop leaf traits associated with acquisitive life strategies might largely be the result of inherence from their wild progenitors, more research is still needed to understand the roles that g...

Pleased to share a new article from my Phd student Jorge Ruiz-Arocho that examines how #cropdomestication and #nitrogen #fertilization affects #leaf traits for #maize, #beans, and #squash. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We all know that domestication centers were literally paradise and people had lots of leisure time, so why not?

Ancient domesticor women were into sequencing?

Spraying insecticides is expensive and messy with all the mud and stuff. Why not add insecticide to the water in the paddy fields? We mean, what could go wrong, right?
1960s International Rice Research Institute

Thanks!! The one near Ixtlan sounds promising... I was in Coapan (behind Ceboruco volcano) near Jala and Ixtlan and was told that there's teocintle in the hills above the town. Acaponeta may be a stretch, but still plausible. Also, west of Ixtlan there's plenty of teocintle along the Ameca river...

Please share if you remember the names before I Google myself into a rabbit hole 😂

Oh, and the basin is key... though there is teocintle further towards coast, lower elevation, up to ~1800 m for annual species, maize ancestor

Yes, post-conquest for the "illa" suffix, a diminutive, chico - chiquillo, bonito-bonitillo

I've noticed over the years that place names that include "milpillas" usually have teocintle, e.g., La Paz de Milpillas... milpilla is used for teocintle, as in milpa-like, milpa being a maize plant...

Thanks!! Seems pretty far into sierra, do the people mention "milpilla"? Or any Milpilla place names nearby?

Where is this? Thinking of maize and teocintle

A clear signal of reduced genetic diversity in invasive western corn rootworm populations associated with slightly reduced genetic loads, marginal evidence of purging for deleterious mutations, and in one pop moderately deleterious variants weakly purged

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PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute A PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology is being posted in the research team lead by Assistant Prof Jazmín Ramos Madrigal commencing 1 July 2025 or as soon as

PhD position on the domestication of common beans and its coevolution with rhizobia through studying ancient and modern genomes. At U. Copenhagen with
Jazmín Ramos Madrigal.
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Which states get more federal money than they send Only 13 U.S. states send more money to the federal government than they receive.

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NIH announces it's slashing funding for indirect research costs The agency estimated that it could save $4 billion by capping indirect costs at 15%.

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Cynical me says, for academia, that that happened coincident with advent of equal opportunity: If research budgets aren't exclusive for only some faculty, then no faculty should have research budgets...