Individual competitiveness may conflict with crop-level performance 🫛 We explored how shade avoidance has changed across 100 years of soybean breeding, and how this plastic response affects yield formation and herbivore susceptibility. Many thanks to @samwuest.bsky.social and Emanuel Kopp 🙌🌱

Our study on the evolution of shade avoidance, a "selfish trait" in plants, over 80 years of soybean breeding history. Led by @lukecoevo.bsky.social and Emanuel Kopp, and published here: doi.org/10.1111/eva..... Great stuff!

Pop ecology gives us appealing slogans—“nature knows best,” “the balance of nature”—but fails to reflect reality and so misleads agriculture. Here's what the ecology of reality actually tells us. My latest... csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/

🌱 Excited to share our latest pre-print! Really excited to share this work were we apply Darwinian Agriculture principles to explore how selection for cooperative traits can boost soybean breeding outcomes. A big thank @samwuest.bsky.social , Emanuel Kopp, Simon Jäggi and Pascal Niklaus.