Back from World Petunia Days 2026 in Rome 🌸 Great meeting — familiar faces, new ones, and excellent science. The petunia community keeps growing. Already looking forward to the next one! #Petunia #PlantScience #WorldPetuniaDays2026 #WPD2026
Let's extract some DNA from a petunia leef together! 🧬🧵
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You might see some familar petunia's if you are walking through the Utrecht botanical gardens #fascinationofplantsday #Utrecht #UU
World Petunia Days 2026 – Registration is now open! Please share!!
Join us in Rome, 3–5 June 2026 with presentation priority given to early‑career scientists. Senior PIs are, of course, welcome to contribute.
Scholarships available!
Young researchers can apply
In Rome for the World Petunia Days 2026! #Petunia #WPD2026 #PlantScience
Petunia hybrida has been bred into an incredible diversity of colors and patterns.
Most arise from mutations in the anthocyanin pathway or post-transcriptional gene silencing that turns pigment genes on and off 🧬🎨
👉 Visit the website for details www.wpd2026-ucbm-rome.com
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Petunia species called Midnight Gold
They are considered to be one of the blackest flowers in the world, although biologically they are a deep dark purple.💜🖤
#TwosDay #Flowers #FlowerReport #FlowerPhotography #FlowerSky #BloomScrolling #BloomSky #Photography #AltText #mobilephotography
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We teamed up with OpenFlower (@nickdesnoyer.bsky.social), a nonprofit creating designer flowers for art & education, to release 3 limited edition postcards! These flowers were powered by Whole Plasmid Sequencing from Plasmidsaurus.
Want one? Just fill out the form!
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