PhD student position @bokuvienna.bsky.social in #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #MachineLearning to study structural variation in wild and cultivated #beets, addressing stress resistance and genome evolution. Apply by June 29th!
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AgriGenomics #PhD Retreat 2026: 2.5 days of talks, interactive sessions, and good company. Grateful for this inspiring community @bokuvienna.bsky.social. #PlantGenomics #AnimalGenomics #Agriculture #PhDRetreat
Report and recommendations from the workshop ‘Induced resistance in plants: from mechanisms to applications in crop protection’ of the EPSO Plant Health WG, next meeting online 20 October 2026. bit.ly/4lQPSrL
#PlantScience #PlantHealth #SDG #HorizonEU
PhD student position @bokuvienna.bsky.social in #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology to discover candidate loci in #beets for stress resistance, using #MachineLearning methods on #genome variants in the context of @projectpro-wild.bsky.social. Apply by April 14th!
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Laide Abbas Rasaki, former emPLANT+ Master student at COBI @bokuvienna.bsky.social, now graduate student at NCSU, talking about his former Master's project.
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#plantbreeding #bioinformatics #genomics #betavulgaris
Great talk by Prof. Steven Runo from #KenyattaUniversity, Nairobi, Kenya, at the AgriGenomics seminar @bokuvienna.bsky.social on #sorghum resistance against the parasitic plant #Striga!
#plantbreeding #plantscience #DocSchool #genomics #crops
Wild and cultivated beets at @bokuvienna.bsky.social Botanical Garden planted during spring for @projectpro-wild.bsky.social. Pictures taken on June 8th 2026.
#WildBeets #PlantResearch #HorizonEU #CropWildRelatives
Check out the Beta vulgaris resource for genomes (and more) from wild and cultivated beets sequenced by us. Newest addition is sugar beet genome RefBeet-3.0, with sequences organised into 9 pseudochromosomes.
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#betavulgaris #sugarbeet #plantbreeding #bioinformatics #biotechnology
PhD student position @bokuvienna.bsky.social in #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology to study structural variation (SV) across wild and cultivated #beets of the genus Beta, with emphasis on #genome architecture, adaptation, and disease resistance. Apply by April 21st!
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🌱 A PRO-WILD field trial is underway in Clermont-Ferrand!
In November, around 300 wheat introgression lines from crop wild relatives were sown at INRAE to study grain quality and nutritional traits. Uniform emergence so far — a promising start! 🌾
#PROWILD #CropWildRelatives #Wheat #Prebreeding
