Powered up by an amazing hotel breakfast and ready for some #PlantScience at #aBIOTECH2025

#aBIOTECH2025 Sunday session on agro-ecofriendly pathogen control systems starting with Wenbo Ma talking about #Phytophthora resistance!

This post is about a science fiction convention, but very relevant to presenters at 🧪 conferences. Kudos to my @planteditors.bsky.social colleague @nancyrhof.bsky.social for taking hours to figure out the pronunciation of the names for the early career researchers symposium at #aBIOTECH2025

Genome editing and breeding session of #aBIOTECH2025 begins with Meixue Zhou from U of Tasmania #PlantScience

Honored to rep @planteditors.bsky.social at the #aBIOTECH2025 conference on Innovations in Crop Breeding for Sustainable Agriculture!
#PlantScience #Agriculture

Dr. Huang gave an absolutely 🤯 talk at #aBIOTECH2025. Can't wait to see where this research goes!

Okay so one of the things I noticed at the #aBIOTECH2025 conference in China is the massive emphasis on potato research and this totally makes sense with the yields, climate resilience, nutrition, and probably the “keeps the peasants from revolting” aspect too. Roots of Empire past and future?

Writing section is mostly stolen from @nancyrhof.bsky.social and her great presentation on effective writing! Here she is wowing the audience at #ABIOTECH2025 #SciComm

Ooh thank you––love a good potato podcast. I saw a lot of remarkable potato #PlantScience work at the #aBIOTECH2025 conference this year (uPotato, wow), so potatoes might be poised to change the world again! 🥔 Here's one example: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely still 😵‍💫 over the potato work I saw at #aBIOTECH2025. Also probably my favorite #carb, don't tell my sourdough starter.

This is remarkable––heard a lot about this at #aBIOTECH2025. Many labs are working to make polyploid crops such as #potato amenable to breeding for the kind of gains that breeders made with rice and maize. Many comparisons of vegetatively propagated polyploids to the Model T.