by Bethany Huot Why study plant disease? In short, to feed people. There are millions of people in the world who suffer from malnutrition (1). Having access to sufficient, safe […]
At The Pub Club this week Gregg Howe shared a recent issue with Columbia-0 seeds sold by Lehle seed company being contaminated with other accessions. Here is an excerpt from the […]
Problems with experimental reproducibility have been of concern in the scientific community of late, which has been attributed as least in part to our misuse of p-values. Misconceptions of the […]
A recent news feature in Nature (Welcome to the CRISPR zoo) highlights the myriad of ongoing applications for CRISPR technology: from controlling disease in engineered bee populations to CRISPi chickens […]
Holding Their Ground To protect the global food supply, scientists want to understand—and enhance—plants’ natural resistance to pathogens. By Amanda B. Keener | February 1, 2016 The Scientist Magazine Featured […]
There are a couple recent features/editorials in the Nature special section for irreproducible research that discuss our cognitive bias during experiments and whether we take any steps to limit those biases. A […]
As we discussed in our last five-minutes of science, a new perspective in Plant Cell (Reassess the t Test) by plant researchers from UCDavis and UMN addresses the growing complexity […]
Very interesting comment in Nature this week highlighting the story of XA21-mediated immunity in rice (Rice researchers redress retraction), which was initially published in Science in 2009, retracted in 2013, […]
The July 15 issue of Nature includes a special for building the 21st century scientist. The issue includes features and commentaries describing some of the skills we should acquire but […]
The alarming explosion of genome sequencing data was recently addressed in PLoS Biology (Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical), and touched on in Nature News (Genome researchers raise alarm over big […]
