Javier Fuertes

Screenshots of the Applied Plant Transcriptomics slides: https://github.com/bpucker/AppliedPlantTranscriptomics

🔬 Exploring RNA-seq data: from co-expression to cross-species comparison!
#Bioinformatics #PlantSciences
📑 Slides available here: github.com/bpucker/Appl...
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17.03.2025 05:21 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

Seed color patterns in beans are due to sequence variants in genes encoding components of the MBW complex #FlavonoidFriday: https://lnk.tu-bs.de/C0Mcgj

Seed color patterns in beans are due to sequence variants in genes encoding components of the MBW complex #FlavonoidFriday: lnk.tu-bs.de/C0Mcgj

14.03.2025 05:42 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant Egan et al. report the discovery of a new trophic interaction in nature whereby a parasitic plant attacks multiple species of insects that manipulate plant tissue when the two co-occur on a shared pri...

Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

11.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Researchers present a taxonomic synopsis of Christiana (Malvaceae), including its newly described sixth species, Christiana restingae, endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Critically Endangered.

04.03.2025 07:29 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

A square-cropped photo looking straight down on a globe-shaped flower called a Desert Five-spot. The petals are purplish-pink, darker outside than inside, and the interior of the flower is marked with five dark red spots, one spot per petal.

Desert Five-spot (Eremalche rotundifolia). No idea how it got its common name. 🌿🌸

03.03.2025 19:24 — 👍 137    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 0

😀 Hello

01.03.2025 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery. We can all use some beauty right now. (Vicia villosa I think and Leuchantenum vulgare, Utrecht, by the bike path)

28.01.2025 16:20 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Photos & bar codes can’t do this! Herbarium collections can be used in ways the collectors never imagined. This is why natural history collections are still relevant in the 21st century. #botany 🌾🧪

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