Alun SaltI’m not sure if many people settled in one session this afternoon, so I’ve tried grouping tweets by talk. Throw in replies to each other between talks and someone deciding to tweet his own talk and it could get confusing.
| “ | Session choice easier this afternoon, but only because I’m going to the one where I’m speaking! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Aaron Liston: Sequencing capacity between 4 & 10x increase per year in last decade. Me: never mind the quantity, look at the quality! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Robert Henry on wild crop relatives. Identifying domestication genes by whole genome shotgun sequencing. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Robert Henry reinventing plants as energy crops. Look at wild relative genomes. WGS or Amplicon sequencing of whole gene family? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Reiteration of domestication: don’t loose adaptation that wild plant had; similar genes selected in several species. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Henry optimistic on genome assemblies/handling data. I think NGS assembly some time off. Technology mustn’t drive our questions #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | K Dlugosch Can’t separate alleles & paralogues in heterogenous wild sp transcriptome seq (worse for polyploids) s depth means nothing #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Katrina Dlugosch: Dozens of loci show selective sweeps of genome in invasive aliens. Now doing QTL mapping. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 OK, trying ‘speed dating’ technique this afternoon – a random talk at random session. Room 105: Kikukatsu Ito on thermoregulation. | |||
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| “ | Ito: Thermoregulation gene expression different between Skunk Cabbage and Arum maculatum – different mitochondrial bits and pieces #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Next room along and it’s all about mosses – peristomes and epiphragms. Seems like talk is going overtime..Ah, speaker just confirmed. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Both talks attended so far have started with ‘everyone in this room will know…’. An incorrect statement in both cases. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 I should have known this would happen, random talk 3 and the word Carex is on the screen. What have I walked into (sorry K Wilson) | |||
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| “ | Muthama Muasya: Synapomorphy for Cariceae (Cyperaceae) inhibition of bisexuality rather than presence of unisexual flowers. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Muasya: Drakensberg Mountains a ‘centre of diversity’. Risky statement; seemingly based on poorly branched basal lineages. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | .@ghwhitbread kicking off ‘botanical names services’ with the #alau National Spevcies List #nsl of the #alau. #reusablescience #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 @ghwhitbread http://biodiversity.org.au #alau #nsl no heuristics involved. real humans extracting & recording real data from literat. | |||
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| “ | Note to self: dont mention (at)ghwhitbread while he is presenting: mention tweets appear on proj. screen! #overcommunication #fail #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Whitbread: want name citation data? of a concept? in context? in #timespacecontinuum? we have #csv, #rdf, #xml, #json, #html, #etc | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens, from the floor, asks if the same data is being entered into #ipni, #itis, #tropicos. #emperorsclothes #naughtypeter #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | After this morning’s barcoding talk at #ibc18 I’m getting excited about my talk on fungal barcoding in 210 at 2:10! | |||
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| “ | Spending the arvo running to semi-random sessions. 1st up: Neil Bell in moss tree of life symposium. Mic not working. Good start. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Rapid-fire chair: "As you progress in your careers, you’ll find giving a short talk is much harder than rambling on for half an hr". #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Bell has produced largest phylogeny of Polytrichopsida. Believe they are largest mosses, so seems appropriate. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Standing rm only for Alan Paton "Advancing IPNI". #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Paton: outlining (pre)publication. sneaks in #ipni ID, a precursor for effective plant name registration process? 😉 #andsoitbegins #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Paton: IPNI editors have helped fix name errors pre-publication. (Interestingly, have gone from one Scottish accent to another.) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Paton: drawing distinction btw curating names & curating concepts. (if you do not apprec. signif. of this you are not a good person) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #iaflash #ibc18 Vincent Chochois is using Brachypodium to hunt down genes associated with root architecture & vi… http://bit.ly/q3KDQ6 | |||
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| “ | *Gasps!* Alan Paton utters the ‘R’ word. Audience stunned, in shock… *crickets* … *tumbleweeds* … #registration #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Paton mentioned the F word: funding. #oohnaughty #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | James Reveal, from the floor, wants #ipni to produce a #whatsnew service, to keep him up to date with nomenclatural cut and trust. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Trust? In nomenclature? #nosuchthing RT @Jim_Croft Reveal…wants #ipni… to keep him up to date with nomenclatural cut and trust. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stinger Guala: talking about #ITIS, a single classification of names and taxa for .us use and globally. http://www.itis.gov #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stinger Guala: describing #itis Taxonomic Serial Number, a #rosettastone for synonyms and cross-Code conflict/ambiguity. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stinger Guala: "We cite the heck out of everyhing". #references #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Guala: ITIS includes things you aren’t interested in like worms and beetles. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stinger Guala describing #itis #webservices, including #lsid resolver. (>1 person in the room – hope noone heard him) #ibc18 #lsidrule | |||
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| “ | Up next in room 210 is David Orlovich. I used David’s superbly-labeled Myrtaceae spirit collection a few years ago. Love his work! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Now @davidorlovich on mycorrhizal fungi on Nothofagus. Poor bugger has #ibccold. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Orlovich: Nothofagus as the outward manifestation of the fungi in the soil. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Big respect to @davidorlovich for soldiering on against Cough of Doom. #ibccold #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | 140 of 147 NZ Cortinarus form association with Nothofagus. Life’s a Beech for fungi, I guess… #ibc18 #appaulingplantpuns #sorry | |||
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| “ | @IBC11 it’s a small crowd in here. Will your secret identity be revealed?! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @davidorlovich: 4 species of Cortinarius happy to grow on Pinus, Kunzea or Nothofagus. #notfussy #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @davidorlovich has Name of the Day: Lactarius umerensis. Um… er… #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | seems that the mystery @IBC11 tweeter has left room 210. The mystery continues.. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | "an abominable mystery" RT @fembotanist: seems that the mystery @IBC11 tweeter has left room 210. The mystery continues.. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Gorgeous SEMs of Nemacladus flowers by Nancy Morin. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Tom Bureau @ #ibc18 on #ComparativeGenomics of mustards: Aetheionema, Sisymbrium, and Leavenworthia; Population Genomics of Capsella | |||
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| “ | Tom Bureau @ #ibc18 – we think genes are good and transposons are #BadBadBad for host, but there are domesticated transpons co-opted by host | |||
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| “ | Megan Hemming – complex interaction between photoperiod and temperature on barley reproductive development. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | My cereal is hot! Megan Hemming is investigating what happens to barley when the mercury bubbles over http://ow.ly/5P6IJ #ibc18 ^MK | |||
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| “ | Hemming – neither major photoperiod nor vernalisation transcripts correspond to temp/daylength effect. But ODDSOC2 does. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hemming final message – temp-responsive pathways in cereals differ from those in Arabidopsis. Chose your model plant carefully. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Session chair Swain introduces speaker Swain, and thanks himself for inviting himself to present…. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 How many spikelets make a spike? Steve Swain & co are looking at the formation of wheat spikes to increase yields http://ow.ly/5P6RH | |||
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| “ | BGI’s 1000 plant and animal ref genomes in progress – Yang #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Packed forum on pollination of sexually deceptive daisy. Is it hot in here or is that just me? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | De Jager: male & female flies exhibit distinct differences in preference for various floral traits. Plant has to trade-off. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | De Jager: all male flies exhibit significantly more mating behaviour on "Springbok" morphotype of daisy. #boyohboy #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Q from floor about males searching for sex more than females seek food. Not touching that… #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Chuck Miller talking on #tropicos and webservices. http://tropicos.org #ibc18 displays a #telnet screen. audience sighs. #sadaudienceissad | |||
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| “ | @Jim_Croft #tropicos no longer uses #telnet #happyaudience #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Chuck Miller: and now, the #webservices. Check ’em out: http://services.tropicos.org #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Chuck Miller: #Tropicos generates and spews out #uuid s to keep track of stuff #ibc18. API cmputer visits double the human visits. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Chuck Miller describing the Taxonomic Name Resoultion Service #trns http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org/ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Last #whatsbehindthebrowndoor talk (sampling 4 of the 20 parallel sessions): it’s all about leaves and hydration. | |||
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| “ | Scoffoni: Small leaves/close veins assist in drought? Yes – if drive along veins and have accident, you can find alternate route! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | It’s because you get these blockages in veins called cavitations, like accidents that stop your car… #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | In this session it’s "for those of you who aren’t aware" (followed by explanation) rather than "as everyone here would know". #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Scoffoni: Mark Westaby asks what problem is with building large leaf with dense veins. A:to do with architecture of leaf development? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Room 2.18: Black Hole of Melbourne? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @ghwhitbread’s symposium room now officially WAAAY over capacity. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | We thought because everything had a name of sorts only a few chairs would be needed 🙂 RT @chrisfreeland: @ghwhitbread over capacity. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens coming up: what’s in a name? not as much as we would think or like, apparently. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens: what’s in a Name? Everything, surely. #Ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Isn’t it the name concept that does that? RT @Jim_Croft:name of organism as key to getting information about it. #namesasmetadata #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Linnaeus thought of names as metadata first!! @Jim_Croft #ibc18 #namesasmetadata | |||
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| “ | but did he work in Kew or the NHM? 😉 RT @SandyKnapp: Linnaeus thought of names as metadata first!! @Jim_Croft #ibc18 #namesasmetadata | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens. how to mine the older literature? much older literature pretty useless for data to be analyzed. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens quoting nursery rhymes. #littlejackhorner #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens: introducing the name of the organism as the key to getting information about it. #namesasmetadata #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Waiting for the phrase "cold, dead arm of the library," which appeared when Stevens gave similar talk at BioSystematics, Berlin #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens: monographers tend to approach their task as though no-one had ever worked on the group before. #trudat #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Is this a +ve or -ve comment? RT @Jim_Croft: approach task as though no-one had ever worked on the group before. #trudat #ibc18 #waytogo | |||
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| “ | neutral… & both 😉 RT @Pathh1: Is this a +ve or -ve comment? RT approach task as though no-one had ever worked on the group before #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @Jim_Croft So monographers should assume nothing happened before them or was that a bad things a short while ago? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @TimEntwisle: So monographers should assume nothing happened before them #ibc18 <= well, that is that they seem to do. | |||
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| “ | Stevens: "Speaking as a historian… Which I’d do if I had time." #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Stevens: most nomenclatural/taxonomic work is not adding new information. How to reset the nomenclatural clock? #likelinnaeus #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | This is like the entire Nom Section packed into one small room… with the possible exception of @sandyknapp. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stevens: how to do ‘cumulative taxonomy? berates current quality of much phylogeny and flora writing. #pleaformoreandbetterdata #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stevens: Floreat Linnaeus!! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stevens: taxonomists spend too much time dredging the distance past for little contemporary gain. #resettheclock #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Left Stevens saying that we need to let ecologists and taxonomists talk to each other. #adangerousidea #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | There will be tears! RT @IBC11: Left Stevens saying that we need to let ecologists and taxonomists talk to each other #adangerousidea #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Discussion now delving into ‘the new Linneaus’ and starting again nomenclaturally. And the Names in Current Use raises it head. #nicu #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Michael Barker – genomic footprints of hybridization Labsite: http://bit.ly/qrhRGJ 57% of 192 spp with evidence of hybridization #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Barker % species with evidence of hybridization in ancestry: agricultural 67%; horticultural 55%; native plants 32%; non-native 75%. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Barker shows 85% of polyploids are allopolyploids – fits exactly with Clausen 1945. Native sp 32% close to 22% of Stace (Leicester!) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Claude dePamphilis/Pam Soltis: Amborella roots tree of other flowering plants (dvrgd 130M yrs) What traits in ancestral angiosperm? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | dePamphilia: transposable elements in Amborella: look like only old families there – and this helps the de novo assembly of sequence #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Not too small, not too big, just right #ibc18 Peter Chandler is finding the right height genes for wheat and barley http://ow.ly/5P70l ^MK | |||
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| “ | Have walked into completely dark room to hear about building a moss interactome (whatever that is). Using iPad to light my way. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Schuette: Lots of proteins, including one called sexine. Proteins that only interact with themselves "not promiscuous". #bitlost #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Need to rethink plan for afternoon, I think. Miss too much with my symposial promiscuity. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | PWJ talking GSPC #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Tod Stuessy has concern about paraphyly and the loss of iconic taxa from Robinson Islands off S America. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stuessy: Conservation consequences are his worry (with paraphyly, or lack of it, defining taxa). #ibc18 #abhorparaphyly (Tod’s term) | |||
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| “ | My question would be if all these genera are shown to not be informative taxonomically, why shouldn’t conservation decisions change? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 OK, Tod seems to be getting to the point of my question, maybe. What are ‘good’ taxa? We’ll see where it goes. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Tod says it’s not phenetics (to accept paragenera) because the data comes from a phylogenetic analysis & characters weighted yourself | |||
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| “ | The tasty ones? @TimEntwisle MT What are ‘good’ taxa? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | And the ones that don’t scratch or make good hedges? RT @chrisfreeland: The tasty ones? @TimEntwisle MT What are ‘good’ taxa? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stuessy: monophyly- holophyly+paraphyly #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Stuessy: "statistics are not phenetic or cladistic" golly #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Kelly: giant genomes of Fritillaria, parallel evolution – a great image! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Laura Kelly Kew giant genomes in Liliaceae A few repetitive elements can make up lots – 3 elements 60% Oryza, 1 in cotton 30% #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Kelly:Fritillaria has diverse repeats, differ between species (like Pinus but there retroelements abundant http://bit.ly/n60uFw ) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ihsan Al-Shebaz @ #ibc18 has 3 year wish list of 6 research goals in Brassicaceae before he turns 75, I hope I have his energy in 30 years! | |||
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| “ | Is there a sea-change? Everyone is talking +vely about repetitive component of the genome, even though that’s not the session title! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Jansen @ #ibc18 Numerous gene duplications & loss ( inc disrupted operons) give rise to plastid genome size variation | |||
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| “ | Jansen @ #ibc18 novel repeat expansion gives rise to rearrangements in the plastome | |||
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| “ | Jansen @ #ibc18 rate heterogeneity among mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes. Non photosynthetic genes have higher rates | |||
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| “ | Bob Jansen @ #ibc18 Geraniaceae have crazy plastid genomes – will transcriptomes show coordinated acceleration with nuclear genomes? | |||
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| “ | Is tweeting my talk netiquet? Background http://bit.ly/rf4M9N; Homepage http://www.molcyt.com (very Web 0.9); Talk ppt http://bit.ly/qRjPlL #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Pat Heslop-Harrison @ #ibc18 notes sea-change at conference in use of social media like twitter (and tweets his own talk background!) | |||
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| “ | Pat Heslop-Harrison @ #ibc18 shows beautiful images of repetitive elements painted on chromosomes of peanut, grasses, and mustards! | |||
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| “ | HH talk: Repeats – transposable elements, tandem repeats, microsat – mark major genomic differences between spp; genes are alleles! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Pat Heslop-Harrison combines bioinformatics & molecular cytogenetics to find repetitive elements and show distribution on chromosome! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | HHtalk: repetitive DNA drives and marks genome evolution, diversification and it modulates chromatin structure. #ibc18 http://www.molcyt.com | |||
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| “ | Really me tweeting now! Susann Wicke & Orobanchaceae – parasitic & photosynthetic broomrapes with variable nuclear & cpl genome size #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Wicke has amazing level of structural rearrangements between chloroplast genomes of different Orobanchaceae -‘unknown’ stretch in 1sp #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | After yesterday’s sorting out of cocoa/chocolate, now Aaron Liston on strawberries (and not only the tasteless Californian ones) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Restoring taste to cultivated strawberry is possible says Liston. I think woody core is one-gene, keeps fresh to buy if not pick&eat #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Shallow genome sequencing is useful for evolutionary genomics and useful with polyploids Me: but 2x strawberry is only 240Mbp #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Settled in for Patterns & Processes in the Australasian Flora. Lyn Cook on plant-animal interaction through the Cenozoic. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Cook: Australian egg & bacon peas. Why are bird-pollinated taxa at the tips of the tree? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Cook: "charismatic" scale insects, 1500 spp. of flat greenish blobs (how can they tell??). #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Cook: now some pretty insects, paropsine beetles. Nearly all feed exclusively on Eucalyptus, with few switches to other Myrtaceae. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Global Strategy for Plant Conservation #gspc, Peter Wyse-Jackson introducing. http://www.cbd.int/gspc/ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ray Ming @ #ibc18 Evolution of plant sex chromosomes – great overview of dioecy and stages of evolution from strawberry to Rumex | |||
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| “ | Martin Lysak @ #ibc18 – rampant "mesopolyploidy" in the Brassicaceae (independent whole genome duplications in the mustard family) | |||
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| “ | Sniderman: fossil pollen poor at recording the schlerophyllous, open forest biome; pollen types can conceal large numbers of species #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Sniderman also fighting the good fight against #ibccold. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Sniderman: Stony Ck Basin fossil flora more sp-rich than any other Aust extant flora, inc. SW WA. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Sniderman: Stony Ck also more sp.-rich than S Afr Cape Flora. #wow #ibc18 Timer going off for reals this time. | |||
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| “ | Sniderman: implication is catastrophic mass extinction in eastern Aust flora. But why does hyperdiverse flora persist in SW WA? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Caroline Puente-Lelievre on phylogenetic relationships in Aust Ericaceae. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | CP-L: two well-supported clades in Styphelia, 1 in New Cal and 1 in E Aust, but W Aust Styphelias not closely related. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Now Kale Sniderman on mass extinction of Aust sclerophyll spp in Pleistocene. Chair’s timer goes off before he starts. #wasthatahint #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | CP-L: phylogenetic relationships match geographic distributions. Investigating the age of these groups. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | CP-L: NZ Flora not just a Gondwanan relict, long-distance dispersal also important. How and when did epacrids get to NZ? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | CP-L: epacrids present in NZ since early Miocene. NZ Styphelieae closer to Aust taxa. Suggests extant NZ taxa are recent arrivals. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Molecular dating discussion.. Australia vs. NZ, dispersal vs. vicariance #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Pualine Ladiges up next – sure to carry on dating discussion… #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Pauline as winner of Burbidge medal yesterday #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Burbidge-Medallist Ladies on distribution of monocalypts, two distinct groups: SW and eastern Aust. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Errr, that would be Ladiges. My (plant) kingdom for a keyboard! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ladies hand-balling questions on western monocalypts to Steve Hopper. #outsourcing #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | OK, my iPad is getting such a slapping tonight. Apologies to Pauline for its insistence on thinking her name is an orth. var. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Great talk by Pauline Ladiges (and I’m not just saying that because she paid for my IBC admission) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Time for some palm reading – Bill Baker and ‘palm supertrees’. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Bill starts with beautiful picture of a branching palm, that is about to become a cartoon for his supertree (or not). #ibc18 #manytopologies | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Wanted to ask why humans OK with accepting familial relationships among ourselves, even if we look like other folk? #noquestiontime | |||
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| “ | Baker: c. 50 palm phylogenetic studies since 1990 but limited coordination, plus incompatable sampling and taxa. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Baker thinks a species phylogeny of palms is possible but needs some more collaboration, sampling and [courage]. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | and now, Alan Paton taling about The Plant List. I know what it is now: a symposium talk generator. #whohasnotspokenonTPLyet? #gspc #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Also apparently missing from The Plant List, an obvious mechanism/governance for on-going taxon curation after initial compilation. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | The Plant List still focussing on taxonomic gaps, ignoring bulk regional ‘filler’. #askataxonomisttodoajobgetataxonomicsolution #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Alan Paton concluding talk on The Plant List and the #gspc. Now, let us never speak of #tpl again. anyone. ever. at all. at the #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | "..and of course, The. Plant. List…" #brainasplodes #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Olga Martha Montiel describing engagement of the #gspc in S America. The foundation is understanding and documenting the flora. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Cretaceous angiosperms symposium has taken us back in time to Russia, Brazil and USA. Molecular markers particularly fascinating. | |||
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| “ | And now to Harshi Gamage, speaking on past & future uses of spinifex grasslands of arid Aust. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Gamage: spinifex valued by Aboriginal ppl for multiple purposes and nearly all parts of the plant were & are used. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | spinifex/Spinifex = acacia/Acacia, beauty of common names #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | But in this case, spinifex/Triodia, horror of common names. RT @SandyKnapp spinifex/Spinifex = acacia/Acacia, beauty of common names #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @IBC11 ..ah yes, but goes to show Africans should not feel bad! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @IBC11 – acacia/Vachellia = spinifex/Triodia; a new way to quantify genera #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | arabidopsis/Arabidopsis? not the made-up ‘Thale Cress’? @SandyKnapp: spinifex/Spinifex = acacia/Acacia, beauty of common names #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Gamage: "hard" spinifex have more fibres, photosynthetic tissue and stomata cf "soft" spp. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | 2nd oddest concept – DIVA right, fossils wrong re. Banksia #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | oddest was disappearance of paraphyletic endemic island genera as a conservation problem #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Gamage: temperature properties of spinifex (i.e. Triodia) studied for possible use as insulation and fire retardant. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Gamage: how could spinifex be harvested sustainably? Could harvesting replace fire? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Peter Heenan @ #ibc18 Pachycladon as model for alpine #EcologicalGenomics, related to Arabidopsis! Voelckel et al. BMC Evol Biol 2010 10:151 | |||
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| “ | Klaus Mummenhoff @ #ibc18 on allopolyploid origin of Australian/New Zealand Lepidium: 2 trans-oceanic dispersals from California and Africa! | |||
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The IBC has up to twenty parallel sessions on at a time. I’m not sure how coherent this stream is, but it does show the amazing variety of talks on this week.
