After three long years, the last part of my PhD work is now published in Science! We found that ash trees in the UK are evolving (some) resistance to ash dieback; a rare case where natural selection is happening quickly enough to see within a single generation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is science fiction and fantasy that uses PLANTS in exciting or interesting ways. Your recommendations are welcome! Books! Games! Movies! Shows! Anime and graphic novels!

New Article: "Comparative transcriptomics in ferns reveals key innovations and divergent evolution of the secondary cell walls" rdcu.be/eiWNF Fern transcriptomes reveal repeated whole-genome duplications, unique gene families and distinct lignocellulosic evolution... #PlantScience

Our paper "Comparative evaluation of methods for the prediction of protein-ligand binding sites" is now published on Journal of Cheminformatics! 🔗 tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS On this paper we benchmark 13 original ligand site prediction tools and 15 variants on our curated reference dataset: #LIGYSIS!