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Bouteloua curtipendula (Poaceae) #botany #grasses #taxonomy #plants

I'm now officially Dr. Merritt Khaipho-Burch! I gave my seminar to the Plant Breeding and Genetics Section Cornell University and passed my B-exam on Tuesday! My next stop is Corteva Agriscience, where I'll be a Research Scientist! Thanks to my committee Ed Buckler Cedric🧬➰🧬Feschotte &Wojtek Pawlowski

Last weekend, we were able to conduct the first-ever controlled burn in our reconstructed tallgrass prairie! Controlled burns can help encourage seed germination, soil health, and invasive species control. We can’t wait to watch the prairie thrive this year!

Exciting phylogenomic analysis of the tropical forage grass genus Urochloa reveals five distinct African forage grass clades #grass #forage #Urochloa #phylogenomics Lizo Masters Paulina Tomaszewska @trudesc @jan_hackel Alexandre Zuntini Trude Schwarzacher vorontsovams academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar… 1/4

Finally did a thing as a #NewPI : I made my lab's website!! Not 100% finished but it's complete enough that I feel comfortable to share it - happy to hear feedback! thecoxlab.org

yam fans rejoice - new paper lead by Nagnouma Condé from HerbierGuinee and Philippa Ryan Benedetta Gori @KewScience ! 👩‍🌾🥔 fills a big gap in our knowledge of yams in Guinea, and also proof I'm interested in crops other than millets nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… 🥳

uses the ethnobotanic study framework from the AGRIHIST project (kew.org/science/our-sc…) also applied to fonio in Guinea and enset in Ethiopia by Philippa Ryan 🤠🌾

A timely interview where I share a bit about my trajectory, which is tightly linked to herbaria. Herbaria are treasure troves of biodiversity that allow us to study the present, reconstruct the past, and make predictions about the future, a crucial skill under climate change.

Happy and excited to share that our review paper on seed shattering in rice is now out ! 🌾 🌾🌾 Grateful for the opportunity to contribute! The abscission zone is truly Amazing!!!

I GOT TENURE!! It doesn’t take most people TENyrs… but with 2 kids and a pandemic it has been a journey. Thank you to my incredible mentors, advisors, and supporters. This is really the accomplishment of the brilliant scientists in our lab – you are the best! 🥳#phlox4ever

black fonio (digitaria iburua) from Nigeria grown at Kew - she's healthy happy and set seed. a bumper crop! #fonio #sscpdtp #kewscience 🤠

Super awesome news! Congratulations!

Today 10-11AM EST live—myself, Kathleen Pryer and @JacquelynGill will be on NPR ON POINT podcast discussing the importance of herbaria and natural history collections 🌱 wbur.org/radio/programs…

What an amazing decision to have Gwil star in this video! He is an amazing taxonomist and is recognised as one of the leading legume specialists in the world, bit is also a great human being and has great sense of humour! #TaxonomistAppreciationDay #ImABotanist

On #AgDay24, we celebrate Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, recipient of the 2024 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences, whose research on the evolutionary genetics of maize has advanced our understanding of the evolution of all crops. Read more: ow.ly/mAp350QVKxW #NASaward

Les cuento cómo el Herbario #USD, #IIBZ, Universidad UASD Facultad de Ciencias UASD está colaborando en una investigación interesantísima: Historia y linaje del mijo fonio (funde, Digitaria exilis) de África occidental, cultivado en la República Dominicana, por George Burton.

a great and really beneficial visit!! 🥳

Congratulations Jonathan Wendel of Iowa State University, newly inducted #NASmember! #NAS161 #plantbiology #genomics

Congratulations Toni! We are proud to count you as an alum of the lab and Danforth Center. Great to see you in StL a few weeks ago!!

My friend Professor Lucia Lohman and I were PhD students in tropical biology together and lived 100 feet apart in St. Louis for many years in 2000s. I taught her how to hide from tornados and she gave me my first Brasilian jazz CD. Now we are colleagues at Cal! I am so lucky.