Chefão Eric

I'm an assistant professor in Plant Science at Mich. State writing an NSF Career. Is there a world in which I work with @hankgreen.bsky.social and/or @thecrashcourse.bsky.social to develop educational materials part of my education and broader impacts? How do I make that happen?

YouTube video by vlogbrothers White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!!

If you’re looking for some sleepy time white noise tonight, I had an ~~idea~~ this week…

It’s a white noise video that donates all revenue to Partners in Health and you can watch it here:
youtu.be/dv2XyqC-EQ4

A rearranged Amaranthus palmeri extrachromosomal circular DNA confers resistance to glyphosate and glufosinate Abstract. Some herbicide-resistant weeds become resistant by generating additional copies of specific loci. For example, amplification of the locus encodin

A rearranged Amaranthus palmeri extrachromosomal circular DNA confers resistance to glyphosate and glufosinate

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A rearranged Amaranthus palmeri extrachromosomal circular DNA confers resistance to glyphosate and glufosinate Abstract. Some herbicide-resistant weeds become resistant by generating additional copies of specific loci. For example, amplification of the locus encodin

Super proud of our new paper in @theplantcell.bsky.social. check it out if you like genomics.

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1st day at WSSA in Vancouver…Women in Weeds Social…former TA & up & coming weed scientist Sarah Chu shared awesome weed themed bracelets (crafting + weeds ❤️) … Eric Patterson got the WSSA Outstanding Young Scientist award & we got the outstanding paper weed sci award in the Canadian Journal of PS! 🤩

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

We love to camp near PawPaw WV on the Potomac. We already reserved a spot there for summer 2025!

As long as it's not Moth Mullen. Grace is always showing me how to identify it by its impressive odor.

I wonder what's going on with PSII inhibitor resistance though... those mutations should be strongly selected against. Maybe because it's chloroplastic, so it's a bit more free to mutate, if only in a few of the chloroplasts?

Folks have found group 1 resistance mutations in black grass herbarium samples from the eighteen hundreds.... And it's not like they had to do ten thousand plants to find it

From my perspective, it is clear that at least for group 1 and group 2, there are just too many simple point mutations that cause resistance without drastic fitness penalties. These mutations are at a high rate in the unselected population because the alleles aren't purged by natural selection.

A figure showing herbicide resistant weed species per million herbicide applications for eleven different herbicide modes of action. It shows that weeds are much more likely to evolve resistance to some herbicides than others.

Here's a figure I'm showing students in my weed science class today. It is a slightly modified version of the figure I published in this paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

All day, everyday!

Can't want to see the scientific community transition to bluesky. We are here waiting for you!