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Ron Parsons

@ronpar.bsky.social

Itinerant biologist. Most recently working with photosynthetic critters.

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Rodrigo Reis@rodrigoreislab.com · 2mo ago

Cool new T-DNA plasmid! Let's see how it gets adopted and common tools become available -- hope those will happen to some level at least www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Rational design of T-DNA vectors enables predictable, single-copy integration in Arabidopsis thaliana

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is the dominant method for plant transgenesis, yet it frequently produces multi-copy, structurally complex T-DNA insertions associated with transgene silencing, u...

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Ron Parsons@ronpar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Niche how to feel old quickly in a conversation: mention Maniatis, see a blank expression so try “Sambrook” … then “Molecular Cloning” and finally see the look of understanding.

Ron Parsons@ronpar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The story of MS medium put together for us by @somssich.bsky.social. I like that it was published without peer review!

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#PlantScienceClassics #21: MS Medium. In 1962 Toshio Murashige & Folke Skoog published their revised plant tissue culture medium @pplplantarum.bsky.social, arguably the most high-cited #PlantScience paper of all time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #PlantDevelopment #PlantMethods

The header of the paper: PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, Vol. 15. 1962. The title “A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures” is shown, followed by the author’s names Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog. Their affiliation is Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 6, Wisconsin. The paper was received for publication on April 1, 1962. To the left of the paper header is a black and white headshot of a smiling Toshia Murashige, and to the right a black and white headshot of a serious looking Folke Skoog.
Ron Parsons@ronpar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Marc is a great follow for stories like this. A helpful reminder of the history of plant science and the impact prepared minds have on society.

Marc Somssich@somssich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#PlantScienceClassics #20: Kinetin & Cytokinins. In 1955 Carlos Miller, Folke Skoog & co-workers describe the first #Cytokinin and its role in promoting cell division and growth promotion. #Phytohormones #PlantScience #PlantDevelopment pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The authors of the two papers. Carlos O. Miller standing on the left, looking down upon a couple of glass beakers. Opposite him, from the back to the front, are Malcolm H. van Saltza, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Folke K. Skoog and Frank M. Strong. Below the photo are the headers of their two papers describing kinetin, the first cytokinin: “Kinetin, a cell division factor from desoxyribonucleic acid” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong, and “Structure and synthesis of kinetin” by Carlos O. Miller, Folke K. Skoog, Francis Shigeo Okumura, Malcolm H. van Saltza and Frank M. Strong. Both published in 1955 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Please don't cancel me....I will never understand why people don't worry about pseudoreplicates/biological replicates in mouse work. Like, n=3-5 done once is solid & publish it in mice, but in fish you better have 2+ replicates done on different days with n=10 minimum for the same assays.

Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra@jrossibarra.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Cultural differences among fields is weird. Crispr something and wanna show an effect to publish in Nature? 12 plants in a growth chamber. Wanna show a QTL does something and publish in Crop Science? Field-scale yield trials of thousands of plants in multiple years and locations.