During secondary growth, primary protective barriers break, and a new one forms beneath: the phellem. But what triggers phellem to differentiate and become a functional barrier? Our results show it’s mechanical cues from tissue rupture 🌱 Check out our preprint 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵/1

New pine results from our PhD researcher Robert Kesälahti! 🥳 Species-specific DNA blocker helps to capture more unique reads and less repetitive genome than a universal blocker. Great news for everyone working with large genomes! With @pyhatanja.bsky.social et al! 🌲 doi.org/10.1111/1755...

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

The Functional and Evolutionary Genomics group (me!) at Nord is recruiting a PhD student on an exciting project on dwarf Atlantic salmon - please share widely! Applications and more information: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Scots pine offspring grow relatively close to their parents, despite that the pollen may fly hundreds of kilometers. 🌲 News report on our study on pine family structure on the University of Oulu homepage. 😊 www.oulu.fi/en/news/new-...

Thank you @pyhatanja.bsky.social and all the other coauthors! About the time to get this baby delivered! 😅🌲

How didn’t I notice this earlier? Now I cannot unlearn this. Do not thank me

Egads. Just learned of this article in carbon costs of bioinformatics. Thanks @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social for pointing it out. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

And this is not even all of them! 🌽