Marcio Resende

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Interesting kernel in the center of the picture. Half su1, half sh2-i.

A few years ago @GregHudalla and I started an interesting and fun research collaboration. I knew little about biomedical engineering, and conversely, I think Greg never envisioned a project involving corn. Happy to see the second paper of this collab out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jb…

🥔 #InternationalDayOfPotato Did you know potatoes are a nutritional powerhouse? A single medium-sized potato can provide about half of your daily vitamin C needs & is packed with protein, calcium, vitamin B, iron, potassium, & zinc. 👉🏽 bit.ly/IPD-2024 🔸 @Cipotato

@ADHansonLab @ATinyGreenCell @BBerryBreeding @cvoiniciuc @jennbrophy7 If elite genotypes could be transformed, the product development stage would be ideal.

In this💯scheme of the crop breeding process (from doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2… 🙏@ATinyGreenCell for flagging), where do genes from #syntheticbiology enter the cycle? On the left (as shown below) or elsewhere? @vancewhitaker @BBerryBreeding @MarcioResendeJr @cvoiniciuc @jennbrophy7

Our paper on local adaptation of seminal root number in maize 🌽 is now out in @NatureGenet. This story started 8 years ago as a postdoc project of Peng Yu (@Cfg_Peng). A 🧵 on some of our major findings 👇 1/13 nature.com/articles/s4158…

@ChenxinLi2 We’ve done some work with it in tomatoes and blueberry. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… And others here have also looked at strawberry and citrus.

How well do we understand how plant genotypes shape chemotypes? Let’s say given the genomes of watercress & broccoli and growth conditions, there exists an algorithm (or similar) to predict how watercress tastes different from broccoli. True or false? What do you think?

@dudelbem Bacana. Vou ler com mais calma também. Alguma delas sugere Chlamydia? Existe uma hipótese que genes de biossíntese de carboidrato vieram de chlamy

Farei um fio com os detalhes amanhã. I will also post a thread in English for my international friends and the plant science community. 🌱💚

Nosso último paper do @delbemlab finalmente está online. Ajudem a divulgar! Neste trabalho, descobrimos que boa parte da capacidade bioquímica de plantas em clivar ligações de carboidratos evoluiu a partir da aquisição de genes de fungos e bactérias. + nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

@fanzhen56 Congrats Zhen.

My paper is featured on the front page of Science!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Job alert! We are seeking a driven postdoc to explore phenomic selection as part of the #SweetCAP project. Apply now at apply.interfolio.com/121117 to join our team and contribute to the future of sweet corn! Please RT 🧬🌽🧬 #postdoc #postdocjobs #plantbreedingjobs

@BBerryBreeding @NAPlantBreeders I guess I need to update my picture, or use a wig next time 😂

Wrapping @NAPlantBreeders Meeting for @uf Posters winners: 🥇 Place for MS - Rafaela Graciano from @MarcioResendeJr's lab 🥉 Place for PhD - Jaideep Kaur from @fruitscanbefun's lab Carver Scholars @DklRakshya and @bibakinmade Borlaug Scholars @CromieJuliana & @SudipKunwar

Congratulations to Rafaela Graciano, M.sc student in out lab and soon starting her Ph.D in the @UFPlantbreeding program. She is currently working on phenomic selection in sweet corn using the single kernel NIR.

@jrossibarra @emollick @William9784422 Indeed it is unlikely that this was the origin. Laughnan received the stock from professor E. B. Mains. Mains describes in a paper that the origin of the stock was a self pollination made in 1943 (F1 cross in 1942). The timeline is incompatible with atomic testing in 1946.

@emollick @William9784422 I’d read the same but memory is @William9784422 (sweet corn breeder extraordinaire) told me it was not quite right. @MarcioResendeJr may also know!

Oppenheimer brought us The Bomb... and sweet corn. Corn seeds were deliberately exposed to US atomic bomb tests in 1946, just to see what would happen. Dr. John Laughnan was sorting that mutant corn & absentmindedly ate a kernel, discovering its sweet flavor, which he then bred.

We are hiring a research coordinator to help with our sweet corn SCRI project. Please share this message and apply if you are interested. explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/5274…

Latest manuscript coming out of our lab in collaboration with Al Myers's lab and Sam Zeeman's lab. This research forced me to step out of my comfort zone, but it was quite fun. academic.oup.com/plphys/advance…