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Musings on a wet Sunday afternoon: I wonder what microbe interacted with the maple to generate this constellation of (circa)circles?

And both are happily eaten by Phytophthora infestans

Our latest preprint is online: “Population genomics and molecular epidemiology of wheat powdery mildew in Europe”. Thank to first author Jigisha and to the many collaborators that contributed to this study! 1/8 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Keir Starmer Finally - you timidly state the obvious. Now what are you going to actually DO, Keir Starmer? What are you going to do?

As Dobzhansky once wrote (1973): "Nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution" The UK is not evolving in the right direction...

Three reasons why inheritance tax on farmland is a good thing (beyond the obvious - that it will raise money). 🧵

This reminds of this: ildeposito.org/canti/ninna-na… Chilling

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Turin.... Sunset

Turning the page on front matter: Wishing Nan Eckardt a joyful retirement | The Plant Cell | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

Sir James Dyson owns 36,000 acres of farmland in the UK through his farming business. He's a tax-dodging parasite. Here are a few more... #r4today

Brexiter who moved his business to Singapore and bought vast swathes of land to avoid IHT is now given media space to have a good old moan. None of these people gave a single shit when their Brexit grenaded our economy. God knows how they can show their faces let alone comment.

Literally a budget to deal with the Brexit you promoted, Mr Dyson, for the country you abandoned.

James Dyson's inheritance tax bill will be over £300m, up from £0m. That is why he is so salty.

But ultimately. Who actually paid the price for this otherworldly opulence?

Two years ago I painted Ramularia leaf spot on sugar beet, caused by the fungus Ramularia beticola. hgpenningtonart.co.uk/plantspathogen…

Downy mildew.... Fungal disease????? We are witnessing the fall of a myth: science accuracy in the Nature stables. 🤦

Bye everyone. See you on bluesky....