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Interested in a funded #PhD focusing on how to harness beneficial soil microorganisms to grow productive crops with less fertiliser? Look 🔽

Home Fee Status applicants only. www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

#PlantScience #Microbiology #CropGenetics #Bioinformatics #SustainableAgriculture
PhD Microbiomes for Sustainable, Low-Input Agriculture (CHARPENTIER_J26TMAF) 2027/28 | UEA
PhD Microbiomes for Sustainable, Low-Input Agriculture (CHARPENTIER_J26TMAF) 2027/28 | UEA
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November 5, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Job alert!

We are looking for a Head of Applied Genomics in our Vegetable Division @kwsgroup.bsky.social.

This is a leadership position (full-time, permanent) based in the Netherlands.

A strong background in #CropGenetics and leadership experience are necessary.

#PlantScienceJobs #PlantSciJobs
Head of Applied Genomics
Head of Applied Genomics
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September 29, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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🌱 What if the scrappy traits we try to weed out… are exactly what crops need to survive?
“weedy” traits like drought & pest resistance could power a new Green Revolution 🌎🌾💪
Read more below, co-authored by AgBio alum, Jake Montgomery
#CSUAgBio #weedscience #CropGenetics #ClimateSmartAg
Using weedy traits in crops as part of a new green revolution
Crop production faces major challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and global food insecurity, with the need to produce more food under increasingly difficult climatic conditions wi....
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June 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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📗 'Genetic diversity and population structure of 128 waxy maize germplasms based on SNP molecular markers' - an article from the Journal of #SouthernAgriculture on #ScienceOpen:

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🖇️ #MaizeResearch #CropGenetics #PlantBiotech #AgGenomics
Genetic diversity and population structure of 128 waxy maize germplasms based on SNP molecular markers
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August 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"As a result, chromosomes may be highly heterozygous, translocated, inherited purely from progenitor genomes, aneuploid, interspecific recombinant or entirely identical-by-descent to another chromosome. These processes result in a diverse and complex hybrid sugarcane genome."
#CropGenetics 🤯
The complex polyploid genome architecture of sugarcane - Nature
We build a polyploid reference genome for hybrid sugarcane cultivar R570, improving on its current ‘mosaic monoploid’ representation, enabling fine-grain description of genome architecture and the exp...
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March 28, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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Most genetics initiatives don’t fail for the reasons people think.

If you’re responsible for genetics strategy, R&D investment, or programme sustainability, our upcoming guide is worth a read. 📰

#GeneticsStrategy #AgriTech #LivestockGenetics #CropGenetics #SustainableAgriculture
March 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Dissecting the genetic basis of bioactive metabolites and fruit quality traits in blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum L.)
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#Flavonoid #BlueBerry #Biochemistry #QTL #GWAS #CropGenetics
Frontiers | Dissecting the genetic basis of bioactive metabolites and fruit quality traits in blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum L.)
Blueberry is well-recognized as a healthy fruit with functionality derived largely from anthocyanin and chlorogenic acid. Despite their importance, no study ...
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July 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Madness “75% of all angiosperms are polyploids, which are characterized by having more than two sets of chromosomes in their somatic cells”

Point at the plants in fear
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Chapter 10: Ploidy: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy, and Haploidy – Crop Genetics
This book provides an introduction to the genetic concepts of reproductive systems, recombination, mutation, segregation and linkage analysis, inbreeding, quantitative inheritance, fertility regulatio...
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August 10, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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The Tiny Molecular Trigger That Could Save the World’s Most Important Crop #Science #Biology #Botany #AgricultureInnovation #CropGenetics #SustainableFarming
The Tiny Molecular Trigger That Could Save the World’s Most Important Crop
New research reveals the initial molecular events that grant wheat immunity to stem rust. A new study published in Science, led by Associate Professor Brande Wulff of King Abdullah University of Science...
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April 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM