There are 10 days left to submit your abstract for the ISSS 2025! Don't miss the opportunity to send your work to one of the largest events devoted to #SeedScience 🫘🌱! #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 More information on the following link: isss2025.com.au

Excited to share our latest preprint! 🌱📸🤖

Pablo Gómez Barreiro@pagomba.bsky.social · 2y ago

New preprint just available. Can germination of highly variable tree #seeds be predicted using images? 🌱📸. We analyzed thousands of individual colour & X-ray seed images from 5 UK tree species, using XGBoost & CNN models to find out. with @robertadayrell.bsky.social #plantSci 🌲🧪🌿 #SeedScience

Very interesting and accessible take on probability worth a read! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Last week, I attended the British Ecological Society meeting for the first time and enjoyed a range of fascinating talks. I also had the opportunity to present our project on the predicted impacts of climate change on the germination of UK tree populations. #kewscience @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Check out our recent blog post on tree seed germination under climate change, where we share insights from our current research. #SeedScience #ClimateChange 😴❄️🌱 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

A rude awakening: the risks of climate change for sleeping seeds

What happens when seed dormancy meets climate change – and why it matters for our forests.

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It took months to grow seedlings from seeds of some species featured in these photos. Take the quiz by @pagomba.bsky.social and see if you can identify them!

Pablo Gómez Barreiro@pagomba.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you live in the UK, Happy #NationalTreeWeek! We've been working on a project to enhance the future resilience of UK forests, and along the way, we captured some cool pictures of seedlings. Here's a quiz—can you figure out which species is which? 🌲🌱🧪 👇 www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

🌱 Hello to everyone interested in extracting seed measurements from images! 🌱 I’ve released an experimental version of Traitor, featuring a new option requested by some users: ordered output to keep track of individual seeds during analysis. Never heard of Traitor?👇🧵 github.com/rdayrell/tra...

GitHub - rdayrell/traitor_sorted-output: This VERY experimental modification introduces a ordered output for seed (and other object) segmentation in Traitor. This is an adaptation for grid-based analy...

This VERY experimental modification introduces a ordered output for seed (and other object) segmentation in Traitor. This is an adaptation for grid-based analyses, where tracking each object is imp...

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🧪 Happy to share a link to our Tansley Review on wood nutrients: underexplored functional traits. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... We highlight the enormous variation in wood nutrient concentrations among species, links to masting, resprouting and ecosystem carbon via decomposition.

Check out the thread below for highlights from our latest paper! 👇 #SeedEcology

Annals of Botany@annbot.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌱 Check the newly published paper ‘Seed functional ecology in Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation: an integrative synthesis’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Carlos Ordóñez-Parra @caordonezparra.bsky.social and co-authors. 🧵(1/8) 👉 botany.fyi/h3t7l3 @robertadayrell.bsky.social

Today, I presented our latest work on using image analysis to enhance the use of native seeds at the Congresso Brasileiro de Sementes. Thrilled to see image analysis solutions and the need for collaborative databases getting more attention at seed meetings! @pagomba.bsky.social

Excited to share our latest paper in @annbot.bsky.social ! We provide a quantitative review of seed functional ecology in Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation. @caordonezparra.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Seed functional ecology in Brazilian rock outcrop vegetation: an integrative synthesis

AbstractBackground and Aims. Rock outcrop vegetation is distributed worldwide and hosts a diverse and unique flora that evolved under harsh environmental c

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