Really neat paper out in @nature.com on an efficient way to produce doubled haploids in sunflower, thanks to the serendipitous discovery of spontaneous haploid parthenogenesis.
That might be the least intelligible sentence I have ever written - great science communication Marco!
tinyurl.com/yxwc2a5v
Spontaneous parthenogenesis in sunflower has been used to develop a scalable doubled haploid breeding system.