Alun SaltFollowing the tweet stream for Monday’s talks.
Day two of the congress opens. I’m compiling the tweets from the UK, so I’m entirely reliant on the people below for today’s coverage and there’s some problems with that.
| “ | Anyone got any suggestions for how to juggle twenty competing symposia? What if two of your botanical idols are speaking at the same time? I think I’ll just plan one day ahead and hope to avoid brain overload. | ||
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| “ | multiple parallel sessions at #ibc18 🙁 #buggerbuggerbugger! #apologiestoalltalksmissed #thatismostofthem #nowletusneverspeakofthisagain | |||
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There’s also a question of stamina.
| “ | Deciding which session to sleep through as jetlag catches up. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ooh, is that a power-point? My laptop is a total energy vampire. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Finally got coffee at the PM tea break. I have a poster tube and am not afraid to use it. #ibc18 | |||
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So I’ve opened the program and I’ll try to follow the sessions as best I can. The first plenary lecture was Professor Else Friis, who’s been working with Peter Crane with a talk The ‘abominable mystery’ solved – the origin of flowering plants.
| “ | Two of the best coffees I’ve had for…oh…4 months? But the abominable mystery of first plants has drawn me back from city cafes. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Friis: Charcoal fossils giving critical insights into early flowers. Remember Peter Crane on exciting 1st discoveries some yrs back #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Early Cretaceous angiosperms already quite diverse from floral fossils…c.125 – 112 mya. Monocots, waterlilies, eudicots #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 first Plenary: Else Friis on the origin of the flowering plants. fossil pollen, flowers, x-rays an SEMs thereof. heaps of morphology. | |||
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| “ | Else Friis reviews history of small (1-3 mm) mesofossils of flowers from Early Cretacous, oldest at Torres Vedras Portugal #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Else Friis concludes Early Cretaceous was magnolids, monocots, and basal eudicots, and mid-Cretaceous sees rise of woody core eudiots #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Else Friis: No sudden appearance angiosperms/dicots : microfossils/collections show their long geological history/gradual appearance.#ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Else Friis plenary speaker- #ibc18 – Rhoiptelea chiliantha a living fossil, who is growing it in Australia? | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 e-m friis plenary talk – teeny tiny fossil flowers answer darwin’s big question. | |||
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Next up was Dr David Fischhoff with Technological innovations for tomorrow’s crops. I think the morning coffees had started to take effect.
| “ | Fischhoff: Productivity in crops more than doubled over last 50 or so years, including if outputs cf. inputs. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff: If we had stuck with 60s rate need extra 1 billion hectares for cereal alone. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff: wealthier population needs twice the grain production in next decades, not simply matching population increase 7 to 9 bill #IBC18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff: biotechnology needed to meet increasing demand for crops as a result of increasing population. modern plant breeding. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff @#ibc18 – plant breeding challenge: double grain demand on arable land for 9-10 billion (meat-eating) humans in this century | |||
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| “ | & check out recent ABC National Science Show on meat-eating ‘debate’. Good overview. RT @JChrisPires: …9-10 B (meat-eating) humans. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff of #Monsanto @ibc18: Over 15 million farmers worldwide grew biotech crops in 2010, mostly corn, soybean, cotton, and canola. | |||
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| “ | And the new meat-eating humans eat pigs/chicken with same grain diet as us, not ruminants eating grass @TimEntwisle @JChrisPires #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff India”s cotton productivity doubled with introduction of GMO insect resistance bt proteins Cry1Ac Cry2Ab #Monsanto @#ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff describing additional BT proteins to broaden spectrum. so far avoiding social and environmental concerns on GM products #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff: entering a new era in crop improvement with new genomics/sequencing (presumably not using left-handed DNA illustrated!) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff now onto large-scale high-thoughput robotics and automation, whole genome sequencing. vast increases in speed and thus data #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff on pest control by RNAi, find dsRNA in insect guts, put dsRNA into plants with bt, GMO stack corn rootworm #Monsanto @#ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff on renaissance on 3rd generation genomics technology (100 genomes per day to link to genes/traits) #Monsanto @#ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff on #bioinformatics linking large scale phenotyping to automated genotyping (robots/microfluidics) #Monsanto @#ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff: Rapid translation of basic science into crop improvement eg with RNAi ; Me: but papaya ringspot success predated mechanism #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff #Monsanto on pest control by next-generation sequencing of bt diversity and engineering proteins accordingly @ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff #Monsanto on improving stress tolerance & yield potential — automated phenotyping is key enabler of gene screening @ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Transcription factors, miRNA, chaperones, transporters… all part of drought response network. Germplasm is a source of tolerance #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff outling the complexity of the suite of genes involved in drought tolerance. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff #Monsanto on future of #systems biology in plant breeding, such as multiple pathways in drought resistance in corn @ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Fischhoff ending with shoutout for Normal Borlaug. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | David Fischhoff #Monsanto concludes that it will take private-public parterships to solve big problems like feeding Africa @ #ibc18 | |||
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And with that the congress split in two. In one hall Loren Rosenberg and Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos were tackling Plant speciation. The first talk was The nature of species boundaries in plants.
| “ | #ibc18 Rose Andrews, an acacia alumnus, presenting plenary on behalf of Loren Rieseberg. Go Rose! | |||
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| “ | Rose with Loren Riesenberg starts with Darwin "every naturalist knows vaguely what he means when he speaks of a species" #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Symposium on plant speciation. Rose Andrews presenting in place of / for Loren Rieseberg. #adaptivehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy | |||
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| “ | Andrews: compares dune/on-dune sunflowers in USA. Ancient genome divergence less for sympatric pops supports ‘adaptive hitchhiking’ #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Rose Andrews and divergent or adaptive hitchhiking in sympatric or allopatric speciation. Islands of differentiation exist but small #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Rose Andrews: what are the causes of genomic islands of divergence? Helianthus as a useful model #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | The fuzzy-edged powerpoints are a bit annoying at #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Rose Andrews for Rieseberg @ ibc18 concludes that islands of genetic differentiation are small; consistent with adaptive hitchhiking theory. | |||
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Then followed Divergent natural selection and plant speciation by Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos.
| “ | RT @davidorlovich: The fuzzy-edged powerpoints are a bit annoying at #ibc18 . Agreed – I’d prefer bigger slides and no speaker picture too. | |||
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| “ | just because technology exists, does not mean you should use it. RT @davidorlovich: The fuzzy-edged powerpoints are a bit annoying at #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ortiz-Barrientos: Soil data cf genetic variation. Are patterns of differentiation better described by history or enviro variables? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Influence on today’s distribution of evolution & ‘chance’ cf current enviro tolerance a ? that interests me for freshwater algae #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Daniel: dune/headland/alpine ecotypes show common ancestry in several different regions. #seneciopinnatifolius #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Daniel O.-B. #ibc18 senecio speciation. truly impressive mass of morphological, ecological, evvironmental, genetic and experimental data. | |||
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| “ | ie, p.p., the old question: are living things everywhere they can be (as many argue for microbes but clearly not for flowery things) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Ortiz-Barrientos "speciation by natural selection". Great talk and exciting research using genomics and field expts. | |||
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Finally Leonie C Moyle concluded the session with From genes to GIS the origin of diversity on Solanum.
| “ | Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos @ ibc18 worked on Drosophila speciation and now working on Senecio pinnatifolius system with #RAD / genome scans. | |||
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| “ | Ortiz-Barrientos: "alkaloids so strong they make cows vomit". An early contender for most memorable quote of the day? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Leonie Moyle: Fear of Phycologists – "This is just a cartoon of one phylogenetic arrangement…I’m not committing…." #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Whoops! Fear of Phylogeneticists! No one fears phycologists 🙂 #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | you reckon?! – morbid phycologophobia is rampant at #ibc18 RT @TimEntwisle: Whoops! Fear of Phylogeneticists! No one fears phycologists 🙂 | |||
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| “ | Leonie Moyle @ #ibc18 on reproductive isolation of Solanum by QTL mapping finds recessive, epistatic genes (not few genes of large effect). | |||
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| “ | Our own Richard Richards is speaking about food security this morning at #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | RR “Just like human genome, wheat is very complex but it is physical characteristics that are important for yield improvements” #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Leonie Moyle @ #ibc18 ecological adaptation of wild Solanum: finds significant species differences using climate/niche modeling. | |||
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Tweets picked up again in the afternoon with 20 (yes twenty) parallel sessions. I’ll try to put the tweets together by session. @Jim_Croft was in The Global Plants Initiative: a digital resource for plant biodiversity research.
| “ | #ibc18 symp.: Global Plants Initiative. Barbara Thiers, chair, introducing Peter Crane. A digital resource for plant biodivesity research. | |||
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| “ | Peter Crane: Global Plants Initiative -"the future is for the community to decide". But it is one global biodiversity project of many #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Global Plants Initiative. It’s all about the money. Who is going to pay for this huge amount of work? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Global Plants Initiative. Michael Gallagher, JSTOR. Who are these ‘users’, what are doing here, and what do thy want?! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Marie Briggs. Using JSTOR Plant Science in Kew… Cuttn’ n’ pastn’ n’ linkn’ to stuff… Shoutout for #bhlib. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Global Plants Initiative. Marie Briggs, JSTOR Plant Science as a botanical diversity resource. An example from Kew. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Saw Leng Guan. Global Plants Initiative: possible future directions. Outlining the scientific products of taxonomic process. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Global Plants Initiative. Thomas Haevermans (running late), on curating a virtual herbarium, challenges for collections management. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Thomas Haevermans – Paris gearing up to scan 20k specimens a day! #jealous #ibc18 … OCR not always possible #handwriting | |||
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| “ | Thomas Haevermans: the real problems of a virtual herbarium. Word. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Thomas Haevermans – outlining changed dynamics of going from real visits to virtual visits. e.g. building a ‘MyVirtualHerbarium’. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Ryan: JSTOR shoutout for #bhlib. working on acquiring content, metadata, SOE, linking to other sources, tools, functionality. #ibc18 | |||
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@Pat_HH was in The genomes of economically significant plants.
| “ | Xu Xun BGI How far from perfect genome? 1-5% gaps (repeats, extreme GC/AT); coverage 80-95% missing repeats, recent duplicated parts #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Xu Xue: #BGI for full genome information, mustn’t just focus on SNPs – look at INDELS (me: and repeats!) #IBC18 | |||
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Then Katrien Devos followed with A multifaceted approach to enhance Switchgrass as a bioenergy crop.
| “ | Devos asks how are genes organized in wheat, using 220 BAC seqs. 30% had no genes. Of rest, half had one gene, others more (up to 7) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Katrien Devos: Analysis of a complex genome, wheat. 17000 Mb hexaploid genome, contrasting with Arabisopsis 157Mb, Rice 450Mb #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Devos: In wheat, trend of more genes per BAC from centromere to telomere. More BACs with no genes near centromere. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Devos #ibc18 Wheat has gene islands of 1-6 genes, with 1gene/5-15kb Now onto comparative/evolutionary context – see my AoBBlog & Dobzhansky! | |||
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| “ | Devos: Gene collinearity doesn’t follow phylogeny relationship (wheat, Ae tauschii, rice, Arabidopsis, sorghum) Part is duplication #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Devos: Gene space (number) increases with genome size (36k Ae tau, cf 26k small genome grasses). Duplications correlate w genome size #ibc18 | |||
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Next were Jeff Bennetzen with Foxtail Millet as a model for biofuel feedstocks and Jer-Ming Chia The amazing genomes of maize.
| “ | Jeff Bennetzen on foxtail millet. 500Mb genome 2n=2x=18. Grown in China. And for @JChrisPires H-index=54! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Jer-Ming Jia, CSHL: Correlation in maize: TE abundance and genome size/chromosome knob number . #ibc18 | |||
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The final tweet in this session came from Structure-function studies in the wheat genome by Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere.
| “ | I agree: BAC assembly not trivial; programs will always give assembly. We couldn’t study within-BAC variation http://bit.ly/qcdPIN . #ibc18 | |||
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@TimEntwhistle picked the session Macroalgal floras in the Southern Hemisphere: southern origins and worldwide colonisation.v The opening talk The last frontier: the marine benthic flora of north-western Australia by John Huisman showed what I’d said earlier on AoB Blog, botanical fieldwork is real adventure.
| “ | Macroalgal flora session starts with John Huisman on ‘the last frontier’ – Western Australia! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Sharks not an unreal danger of algal fieldwork – as we examine the leg of someone who was harassed by lots of marine life, apparently #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @TimEntwisle Sharks, gun-toting criminals… Field botanists are well ‘ard. #ibc18 #respect | |||
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| “ | Good coverage now of north-west of Western Australia with much fieldwork supported by oil and gas companies. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Phycophylogenetics is a rare and precious thing. RT @peterneish: #ibc18 << what about phylogenetic phycology? | |||
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@JChrisPires tweeted from Monocot phylogeny and evolution.
| “ | Huisman references ‘worldwide colonisation’ in symposium title by mentioning the location of his co-workers – many and widespread. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Joe Zuccarello wants to compare terms ‘area of origin’ and ‘area of homogenisation’. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Zuccarello: Reminding phycologists ‘basal clades’ not representing areas of ‘origin’. Old news to flower namers. Mike Crisp cited. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Boedeker talking about green alga Wittrockiella. In family Pithophoraceae – which the infant part of my mind enjoys pronouncing. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Boedeker: interesting story behind these algae (Wittrockiella) growing on turtles and other odd places. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Olivier De Clerck reminds us that highest diversity of marine algal diversity found in temperate areas, rather than tropics. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | De Clerck explains temperate phycodiversity by inferring from phylogeny temperature optimum of ancestral species (using modelling) #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Interesting in terms of new phycomycobotanicocode that 15/2000 delegates with interest in phycosession. Of course competition intense #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Jim Leebens-Mack @ #ibc18 #phylogenomics – new Phylo-Transcriptomics approaches thrown down with #1KP project Algae to Angiosperms. | |||
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| “ | Jim Leebens-Mack @ #ibc18 – Phylogenomic analysis of transcriptomes sampled across monocot orders finds broad agreement with plastome trees | |||
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| “ | Marcela Thadeo @ ibc18 shows morphological evolution in monocots: multiple origins of fleshy fruits – many different pathways to succulence. | |||
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| “ | John Conran @ #ibc18 Update of monocot fossil data of monocots in the Southern Hemisphere – or, what I did on my holidays in New Zealand! | |||
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There were also some solitary tweets. @marklcrowe listens to Ben Trevaskis’s talk The reproductive biology of wheat and barley: from developmental genetics to crop improvement.
| “ | Ben Trevaskis adapting wheat varieties for Australian conditions by tuning vernalisation and day length genes.#ibc18 | |||
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@ProteinUniverse was in the session Exploring the fern frontier: identifying the next generation of challenges in fern biology where Mike Barker was talking about Unfurling fern biology in the genomics age, but they weren’t alone.
| “ | We are at the fern frontier – identifying the new questions and challenges in the genomic era. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Mike Barker @IBC11 – Chromosome number (not polyploidy) increases across latitudinal gradients (south to north) in Ferns #ibc18 | |||
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CSIRO’s MK was in Genetics, demography and conservation of rare and endangered plants.
| “ | Do you listen more to mum or dad? Developing rice seeds turn genes on and off depending on which parent plant they came from #ibc18 ^MK | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Andrew Young and his team have been trying to help the Button Wrinklewort reproduce in fragmented populations http://ow.ly/5Mf56 ^MK | |||
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| “ | My talk on Global BHL today at #ibc18, 1600, Rm204: http://tinyurl.com/3katt9l #bhlib @biostor_org @vbrant | |||
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The mid afternoon break marked the end of those sessions and started the next round. Informatics tools for the semantic enhancement of taxonomic literature was a well-tweeted session.
| “ | #ibc18 symposium Informatics Tools for Semantic Enhancement of Taxonomic Literature. @elyw introducing @chrisfreeland and #bhlib | |||
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| “ | @chrisfreeland describing #bhlib global hegemony. miles of linear biodiversity shelf space digitized, growing daily, yours, for free. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | .@chrisfreeland describing the global #bhlib network. "a meadow rather than a monoculture." diversity = robustness and resilience #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @chrisfreeland reaction to electronic publication: "Right on!". Makes the nom. sessions seem kinda hip all of a sudden. #ibc18 #bhlib | |||
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| “ | Tod Steussy: "who owns #bhlib?". @chrisfreeland "er, nobody. er, that is, everybody 😉 … [articulate but boring official response]" #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Humbled by audience applause at #ibc18 thanking us for #bhlib. Amazing. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Penev: #Phytokeys as pdf, html, xml. Embedded IDs from #ipni, #eol, #gbif, #bhlib, #citebank, #plazi and #biodiversityalphabetsoup | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Penev- "press-a-button" preparation and submission of manuscripts to Pensoft journals such as #phytokeys. #workflow #validation | |||
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| “ | "is [Phytokeys] for profit or non-profit?" Penev: "for profit… but is currently non-profit ;)" #ibc18 #openaccessparadigmproblem | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Laurence Dorr: Taxonomic Literature ed. 2 (#TL2) as a guide to botanical literature digitization priorities. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Robin Everly, describing an on-line version of Taxonomic Literature ed. 2. Using Internet Archive, #bhlib. Target, Jan 2012. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Donat Agosti, @myrmoteras, on a schema for description and exchange of taxonomic publication content. #xml @openaccess | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Gerwin Kasperek, on name-based retrieval of library and internet resources. Issues of using author and taxonomic names in searches. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Hong Cui, on the fine-grained xml markup of descriptive data. Enables data mining across documents/resources to extract knowledge. | |||
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| “ | #ibc18. Hong Cui. Semantic parser built and run against Flora of North America #FNA (and Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology). | |||
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Dating the plant Tree of Life: biological and methodological questions had @TimEntwhistle tweeting.
| “ | Charles Wellman: It’s all about spores – fossil evidence for earliest land plants. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Wellman: what was growing on land before land plants? – ‘pond scum, microbial mats, soil crusts’. Bliss. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Charles Wellman @ #ibc18 ‘molecular dating analyses are like a annoying dog, you kick them away and they keep coming back’ #bestquotetoday | |||
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| “ | Wellman (likes fossils): "Molecular clock analyses are like an annoying dog, you keep chasing them away and they keep coming back" #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Hosaka: "False truffles originate S & move N" based on basal lineages. Joe Zuccarello, I take back comment that only phycos misled #ibc18 | |||
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@JChrisPires reported from Evolution in orchids — at the interface of populations and species.
| “ | Mark Chase (274+ pubs, h-index 54) @ # ibc18 -predicts future nuclear genes phylogenies will not alter plastome trees or APG classificiation | |||
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| “ | Mark Chase and Jerry Davis @ # ibc18 – verbal fistacuffs after monocot phylogenetic session over mitochondrial genome evolution | |||
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@Pat_HH was in for Resource use efficient plants and crop systems
| “ | Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere Murdoch U, WA Can a wheat genome be assembled from short reads? With repeats, even a single BAC can be hard! #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Sergy Shabala, Tasmania, asks what makes halophytes special? What do they do that we could use to breed salt-tolerant crops? #IBC18 | |||
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| “ | Sergy Shabala comes close to calling Arabidopsis a crop, but it’s K+ leakage does protect it from oxidative stress/ROS. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Richard Bracking/Robinson – biodiversity loss, Nitrogen cycle & climate change. N use increases with yield. Is sugarcane N efficient #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Bracking: Breeding can improve nitrate use, and agronomy can reduce nitrification in soil. http://bit.ly/pDGvYG #ibc18 | |||
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And that just about marks the end of activity for Day Two, barring the evening entertainment.
| “ | Tonight Snow Barlow ‘Fruits of the Vine’, Song of Botany songwriting & practice, or Botanical Art Exhibition at Botanic Gardens. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | And the meet ‘n’ greet for members of the Intl Assoc. of Bryologists. #bryoclub #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Looking forward to hearing Prof Snow Barlow talk about climate change & wine at the #ibc18 public lecture tonight! http://t.co/e2zfXtb | |||
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| “ | Rising temperatures in wine regions around the world are resulting in earlier ripening and earlier vintages http://t.co/e2zfXtb #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Great day 1 of #IBC18. Highlights were mistletoe birds not important dispersers of mistletoes and Ortiz-Barrientoz’s amazing Senecio study | |||
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Update to add wine tweets.
| “ | Public lecture at #ibc18 Snow Barlow U Melbourne Fruits of the vine: future climates and wine. Plants important for drinks not only calories | |||
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| “ | Impact of climate change on wine – is it the canary in the cage for other agricultural industries? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Barlow: grapevines still unexploited genetically with much genetic diversity to unlock, although among first domesticates 8000 yr ago #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | As a temperate plant wine is grown at very specific latitudes and temperatures across the globe #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | China is a major importer of wine, with demand increasing exponentially #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Due to warmer temperatures, vineyards are harvesting grapes up to 28 days earlier than previous #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Maturity date of grapes have moved forward nearly a month from 1993-2009: http://bit.ly/nm4lrK #ibc18 although some changes for agronomy | |||
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| “ | Vineyards record harvest dates & sugar, alcohol levels, with some Australian records going back 100+ years #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Coonawarra wine maturity dates are moving earlier at a rate of about 3.8 days per year #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | IPCC estimates 2 to 4 degrees of global warming, need to bring that down to a local level to predict the effects on vineyards #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | In Australian wine regions, grape sugar levels and alcohol content of wines are increasing #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Climate change projections suggest wine growing regions will push 150 to 300 km closer to the poles #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Wine growers in Australia have been buying up regions further south in response to climate change projections #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @dr_krystal Yeah, I saw Brown Bros were investing heavily in Tasmanian properties #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | That was the example given! RT @c0denix: @dr_krystal Yeah, I saw Brown Bros were investing heavily in Tasmanian properties #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Each grape varietal requires right terroir. Too warm = too much sugar, not enough acid. Too cool = decreased sugar, unripe flavours #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Compounds giving wine it’s flavour now being found. These differ between seasons, some eg rotundone not detected in warm years #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Australia can move varieties to suitable climates. Appellation contrôlée in France won’t allow adaptive management & varietal change #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Appellation control only allows certain grape varietals. Climate changes may mean they’re no longer suitable to those regions #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Challenge is to identify dominant flavour compounds that give wine distinct character & examine how temp influences their production #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Methoxypyrazine provides grassy flavour in sauvignon blanc & is at 10-30ng/L in Marlborough wines, but much lower in Aust wines #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Rotundone, the black pepper flavour in shiraz, is up to 600ng/L in cool climate wines, but undetectable in wines from Rutherglen #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Wine industry will need to be innovative & adaptable in response to changing climates #ibc18 | |||
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In the news from the conference…
| “ | Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift? #ibc18 http://bit.ly/ql3IUG | |||
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| “ | #ibc18 Ming-Bo Wang explains how viruses use satellites to infect plants http://ow.ly/5MgeR ^MK | |||
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| “ | Canberra Times article on new "relaxed botanical descriptions" http://j.mp/nXFofl Contradiction in terms? #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Improving wheat yields for global food security #ibc18 @scoopit http://bit.ly/ra0Kbt | |||
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| “ | Just turned on @7774melbourne and they are talking about changes to the ICBN – great stuff #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Assume @774melbourne? RT @peterneish: Just turned on @7774melbourne and they are talking about changes to the ICBN – great stuff #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | @TimEntwisle yep, that’s the one. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Bit of confusion from callers re: latin diagnosis – some thought it was the end of binomials! #ibc18 #communicationbreakdown | |||
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| “ | Wattle it be? Name claim for Africa or Australia http://t.co/Ov593Xb via @smh_news #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Dear Aussie media. Acacia wondering, there are no puns, allusions and metaphors about wattles that have not been used already. None. #ibc18 | |||
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| “ | Catching up with today’s media releases – should we shift species affected by climate change? http://bit.ly/npuk9l #ibc18 #csiro | |||
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| “ | #CSIRO hunting down wheat key genetic traits in a bid to substantially boost its grain yield. #ibc18 #wheat http://bit.ly/p2VwpD | |||
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| “ | Lots of interviews on the climate paper – Hugh Possingham speaking about it on Thursday #ibc18 | |||
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Thanks to everyone who has tweeted. You can follow the congress @IBC11 on twitter, or via the #IBC18 hashtag. I’ll end with a plug for our post about yesterday from Pat Heslop-Harrison.
| “ | Botanists and plants solving the problems of the world at #IBC18 http://goo.gl/fb/L78Xq #botany | |||
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| “ | aaaaaand… that’s a wrap! #ibc18 #beeroclock | |||
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