Adrian Fox

The two finest drinks made for a Japanese summer 🥵

The cat. Always the cat…

Oh really? I’m a Glaswegian…

Possibly the greatest joke in the history of television 🤣

Lovely violet flowers…

New publication 🚨 🚨 . What are the challenges in using HTS in plant health? how has the field changed in the last decade? Where do we go from here?

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Follow up questions usually do 🤭

Potato berry…

YouTube video by HappyToast Jim Bob - Song By Me - HappyToast video version

What a tune, what lyrics, couldn't stop myself.
@mrjimbob.bsky.social - A song by me
youtu.be/zCafaTPwN6M

Came here to say just that 😆

N. E. Brown - Wikipedia

Stunning.

An antecedent of mine knew a thing or two about South African succulents…

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I have an esteem with a B nib. It serves well for shimmery stuff and writes well, but I was spoiled for diplomat nibs by my aero… 😬

Image of the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis under the microscope. The dinoflagellate is heart shaped and the chloroplasts are clearly visible around the edges of the cell.

Excited to share our new mSphere paper describing ssRNA viruses associated with Karenia brevis harmful algal blooms in southwest Florida in mSphere led by Jean Lim - a 🧵(1/10) 🧪🦠🌊 #MicroSky #ProtistsOnSky #USFCMS @asm.org @cmarinescience.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

Swatches of four brown/green Robert Oster inks showing component colours of pink, green, yellow, and blue

It really comes alive if you sketch and use some water to work the ink - it brings out the pinks and greens like an oil spill on a floor, and I guess that’s where the name came from?

Motor oil is my favourite drawing ink. It also started me off on my brown/sepia phase

The poster titled "Using HTS to understand viral diversity in arable margins and its impact on various crops" and myself next to it

You can find me and my poster at IAPV conference!

#IAPV25
#plantviruses
#plantvirology

Looking forwards to catching up with you!!

I love my kaweco perkeo demonstrator for the same reason. Diamine hope pink looks amazing in there

Nematodes vector bacteriophages in compost and soil Bacteriophages (phages) infect bacteria to reproduce and are often lethal to their host. To maintain the infection cycle, soil phages must travel from…

Phages hitchhiking on nematodes through soil! So happy to see this work in print 😀 #phages #soil

Fun collab with Mark Zwart @niooknaw.bsky.social and Lisa van Sluijs, Hans Helder at @w-u-r.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Four tiles showing a tomato with chlorosis in upper left, a squash with powdery mildew in the upper right, broccoli with necrotic leaves on the lower left, and a pepper leaf with spots and mild chlorosis on the bottom right.

We're hiring a plant pathologist! Looking for someone w/passion for diagnosing vegetable diseases & communicating results to clients. There's lots of other duties & opportunities. I also think it's a great lab 🤔☺️

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/215...

@quesadalabncsu.bsky.social @plantdisease.bsky.social

Congratulations!!

Evaluating the push‐pull strategy in eastern apple orchards: verbenone effectively reduces ambrosia beetle populations without the need for a pull factor in a species‐specific manner Verbenone reduced ambrosia beetle populations in apple orchards as a push factor, demonstrating effective, species-specific pest management without requiring a pull factor in a push-pull management s...

Latest paper is out! We tested a push-pull strategy using verbenone to repel ambrosia beetles in eastern US apple orchards. Verbenone alone reduces migration at low populations, but EtOH is needed for high populations. @monique4ever.bsky.social
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It really is one of the prettiest viruses

In 2018, we detected the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) - our virus of the month - in 🇩🇪 for the first time. Today, it threatens tomato production worldwide. How did it spread so quickly? A thread 🧵👇

Source?

Genome diversity and evidence of recombination and reassortment in nanoviruses from Europe The recent identification of a new nanovirus, pea necrotic yellow dwarf virus, from pea in Germany prompted us to survey wild and cultivated legumes for nanovirus infections in several European countr...

PNYDV’s 8-component genome isn’t static—it reassorts & recombines, allowing rapid adaptation. But just how flexible is it? Studies found among European nanoviruses diverse variants & hybrids. This could mean emerging new threats to crops! #PlantVirology

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The painting shows a tomato stem, with one cluster of tomatoes and one compound leaf. The tomatoes are deformed and blotchy, with pale green/yellow patches. The leaves show mosaic symptoms, with mottling in various shades of green, bulges and deformations.

In 2023 I painted tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) symptoms.

www.hgpenningtonart....

Experts foresee negative ripple effects in termination of USDA scientists in St. Paul lab A team at the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul got notice last week that some of their jobs were getting cut. Experts warn that cutting jobs in this area will harm resear...

USDA scientists terminated from Cereal Disease Lab in St. Paul www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

I’ll read it later

Frontiers | Single amino acid change in tomato brown rugose fruit virus breaks virus-specific resistance in new resistant tomato cultivar IntroductionTomato cultivation across the world is severely affected by emerging plant viruses. An effective method for protection of commercial crops agains...

See also… www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus Nextstrain Build Version 4: Pathways of Introduction and Local Spread | PhytoFrontiers™ Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV; Tobamovirus fructirugosum) is a harmful virus significantly reducing yield and fruit quality in tomato. It was first detected in Israel and Jordan in 2015 and ...

@zivirus.bsky.social is the man to speak to on that… but our follow paper is apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/full/10....