
Forrest Li
@genomeofforrest
plant quant/pop genetics, mainly in grasses | uc davis | not a singaporean gaming ceo
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24-02-2022 20:40:10
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My article is now out in nature! It’s been ~1 year since my post about the flaws within 2 high-profile articles that claimed 33-68% increases in crop yield. Our paper describes common issues & suggests yield-testing criteria for future pubs. A thread🧵 nature.com/articles/d4158…

Researchers have yet to find out why glumes stopped producing keratin as a domestication trait for maize. inspired by Regina A. Fairbanks typos


Excited to see this preprint out "A geographic history of human genetic ancestry" by Michael Grundler, Jonathan Terhorst & Gideon Bradburd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…


New work from Forrest Li with me and Daniel Runcie, asking how well genotype-environment correlations improve our ability to predict fitness in cultivated populations (spoiler: they don't). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…