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Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Looking for things to like
We’re reworking our Facebook page, now that the new layouts are available. You could use the page as a sampler for the blog, but I’m wondering if we can do more with it. One of the things Facebook is good at...
Alun Salt
Plant genomic triplet
People rightly bemoan the fact that you inevitably wait ages for a bus to turn up, and when it does eventually happen oftentimes several arrive at once. As with public transport, so too in the world of plant genomics...
Nigel Chaffey
Drowning in the data or the calm before the genome sequence storm? #PAG
My abiding memory of the Plant and Animal Genome (#PAG) conference this year will be not so much the talks, the many individual discussions I have had, nor the quantities of great food in southern California. It will be...
What should link to where?
I’ve linked to stories from two sites recently. As well as the blog posts, something else happens to them when they reach the RSS feed, Facebook and Twitter accounts; the headlines shouldn’t link to the blog...
AoB Blog puts on its winter clothes
As well as changing the header image an background stripes, I’ve taken the opportunity to redo the theme. I’ve changed it round pull out the Content Snapshots. It means there’s more space on the front...
Reading about Readability
Bora Zivkovic highlighted a post on readability and blogging yesterday on The Science of Blogging. This is a rework of a post on Colin Schultz’s site from earlier in the month, which is well worth a visit because...
Astrobotany on the web
A couple of Astrobotanical stories have caught my eye in the past week. I renewed my subscription to SciAm Digital today and read the story Black Plants and Twilight Zones. It’s subscription only, but if you read...
Banana sustains … for nutrition, for livelihoods and for the environment
Banana sustains … for nutrition, for livelihoods and for the environment. About 500 people working with banana are meeting in Trichy, in South India, this week. I find it particularly exciting to have discussions...
PHYLIP and phylogeny inference
The PHYlogeny Inference Package, PHYLIP, written by Joe Felsenstein (University of Washington) has reached the milestone of being 30 years old. Almost every recent volume of Annals of Botany has papers using this...
The roadside botanist, bananas and cassava biodiversity
This week’s roadside botany in the Brazilian Cerrado: eleven wild species of cassava, Manihot, extensive bananas and exceptional biodiversity. The morning showed the remarkable cassava plant breeding project in...
The origin of modern Botany and the Infinite Monkey Cage
Some ideas work and some ideas don’t. Sticking Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince together for half an hour each week works. The Infinite Monkey Cage is their weekly show on Radio 4 (available worldwide as a podcast)...
RockMelt: First Thoughts
I use different browsers for different things. My online banking is through Safari. My work is increasingly on Chrome, though I also use Camino for AoBBlog. Opera is the browser I use for home, but not for Facebook...
Molecular tools and quality improvement in vegetatively propagated crops
Breeding and use of biodiversity in vegetatively propagated crops is a particular challenge, with many cultivars of the plants grown worldwide ‘improved’ only in the sense of being selected from landraces. The crops...
