Differences in apple fruit shape are independent of fruit size https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.01.631017v1

Acadia is hiring an Assistant Professor, Tenure Track in Biopharma and Animal Physiology which closes February 3, see details here (and let me know if you have any questions about Acadia!) Please share: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

🎉 I am excited to share a preprint led by a Computer Science Co-Op/Honours student in my lab, Kylie DeViller. Kylie used comprehensive morphometrics to examine variation across 5700+ apple images describing independent variation in fruit shape and size. Great work!🍏🍎💻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🎉 Excited to celebrate the publication of our new paper "Terroir and rootstock effects on leaf shape in California Central Valley vineyards" in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Available here: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Please share 📣 My department Acadia Biology in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦 is hiring an Assistant Professor in Marine Invertebrate Biology (Tenure-Track) with a closing date of March 4 🦞 You can find details here (or reach out with questions, I love working here!): www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/...

Interested in fruit genomics, breeding, or ripening? Read our new article led by Sophie Watts in Fruit Research "Large-scale apple GWAS reveals NAC18.1 as a master regulator of ripening traits" to find out more 🧬🍏🍎 www.maxapress.com/article/doi/...

📣 Exciting news, I am editing a special collection all about grapes for Plants People Planet with Allison Miller, Colin Khoury, Anne Fennell, and Jun Wen 🍇 Full manuscripts are due 30 April 2024 but reach out at any time with questions. Details here: www.newphytologist.org/news/view/337

Apple revival: how science is bringing historic varieties back to life 🍎🍏🧬 Nice article which also highlights a great article from our Plants People Planet special collection on fruit last year by Amy Dunbar-Wallis et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm looking to recruit 2 MSc students to work on genetic mapping in delicious perennial fruit crops next year. You can find more about our work at migicovskylab.ca Reach out with any questions! Reposts appreciated 🍓🍎

It's always pretty easy to spot the Turkish apple cultivar Kandil Sinap in the orchard of trees. Not many with shapes like this, even in Canada's Apple Biodiversity Collection of over 1,000 different apple trees.