My article is now out in nature!

It’s been ~1 year since my post about the flaws within 2 high-profile articles that claimed 33-68% increases in crop yield. Our paper describes common issues & suggests yield-testing criteria for future pubs. A thread🧵

nature.com/articles/d4158…

A postdoc position is available in my lab! If you have experience in microscopy, roots, microbes or high throughput anatomical phenotyping - please apply! Please RT. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF05944

We are lucky to have Blake join us UC Davis! ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-…

Enhancing sustainable development through plant genetics go.nature.com/3KZK2Do #Comment by @pcronald UC Davis #SDGs

“Although gaps remain in the natural hypothesis of #COVID -19’s origins, the lab-leak alternative is poorly supported and internally incoherent. The debate only continues because popular consensus is not yet ready to accept this.”

So pleased to see that #plant physiologist and #green pioneer Helen Stafford has been honored with the ASPB Pioneer award Reed College htt... threads.net/@pamronald8/po…

A huge honor for #plant physiologist and #green pioneer Helen Stafford Reed College Reed College @aspb reed.edu/reed_magazine/…

aspb.org/membership/asp…. .

Fantastic! A synthetic microbiota composed of 48 culturable bacterial strains from the leaf endosphere of healthy Arabidopsis plants was able to substantially restore immunocompetence similar to plants inoculated with a soil-derived community.

The Department of Plant Pathology will have an open Asst Prof position in the broad area of 'Disease Ecology'. Please spread the word!

Position will be posted soon. In the meantime, please bookmark recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply and check back weekly for the position! #PlantHealth2023

This is a good article about twitter and scientists. Why some are leaving, why some are not, why we are worried and ultimately why twitter doesn’t matter that much.

Looking for a PhD in plant sciences to lead research on dealing with climate change?
The IRTG Accelerating Crop Genetic Gain QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation UQ Science has 5 new PhD scholarships to fill:
study.uq.edu.au/study-options/…

Beautiful threads.net/@pamronald8/po…

Great story about Professor Bressler who runs a lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv. She is an active mem... threads.net/@pamronald8/po…

“Just because a supplement is on the market does not mean it’s safe, effective or contains what it advertises. It is virtually impossible for the average person … to make informed decisions about purchasing supplements without outside assistance.”

Spotlight article by Were Vincent & me discussing the recent paper from Guotian Li and @pcronald labs in association with new data on effector uptake from Valent Lab KSU Ely Oliveira-García & Paul Birch - Breaking the BIC
doi.org/10.1016/j.molp…

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Root-knot nematodes produce functional mimics of tyrosine-sulfated plant peptides (PNAS) @nemaPlant MariaFlorenciaErcoli @alisoncoomer06 Paulo Vieira @pcronald (Summary by Mary Williams mary williams) buff.ly/43FylIu

#PlantaePSRW

“…the entire vertical farm boom has busted, with venture funding for the sector plunging 91 percent over the last year…”

Follow this link through to an interesting collection of papers on synthetic biology, plants, and mitigating climate change. #naturalsecurity