Eddy Mendoza

Group photo of PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award recipients at the Botany 2025 conference. Text reads: PLANTS Undergraduate Travel Award and Mentored Experience — Now Accepting Applications! Benefits include mentorship, complimentary conference registration, free travel and lodging, meals, a field trip, and a 3-year BSA student membership. Deadline March 15, 2026. Visit botany.org.

Hey Botanical Science Undergrads, the PLANTS Grant deadline is coming up!!

This award covers Botany 2026 travel, lodging, meals, mentorship, a conference field trip & a complimentary 3-year BSA membership.

Deadline: March 15, 2026
For more information, visit: botany.org/home/awards/...

BAPG 2025 was a blast. Looking forward to seeing folks in Davis in Spring 2026! bapg2025.github.io/bapg2025stan...

The origins and adaptive consequences of polyploidy in a dominant prairie grass Polyploidy is ubiquitous across North American prairies, which provide essential ecosystem services and rich soil for agriculture. Yet the mechanism driving polyploid abundance is unclear. Multiple hy...

Super proud of @alyssa-phillips.bsky.social 's paper, now out on biorxiv! She resolves the origin(s) of polyploid big blue-stem, a dominant species in the midwest tall-grass prairie. Her common garden analysis also informs on environmental adaptation and hints at the impacts of polyploidy.

NEW pub in @science.org 🥳

Is it sponges (panels A & B) or comb jellies (C & D) that root the animal tree of life?

For over 15 years, #phylogenomic studies have been divided.

We provide new evidence suggesting that...

🔗: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...

It’s Tuesday folks, and you know what that means:

Data available upon request is not acceptable.

Search/es available upon request is also not acceptable.

If you are going to do science, do science, please.

Please share! I'm looking for a postdoc. The position is to lead one of the following projects: 1) regulation of plant specialized metabolism by cell fate, or 2) foliar embryogenesis in the succulent plant Kalanchoe.

Learn more abt projects: cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/res...

Old Man Yells At FASTA Headers

#Botany2025 was a blast! So much cool botanical science to learn from.
Also, very happy to present our work on the genetics of Saguaro 🌵
Looking forward to the next one!

Opening page to the Plant Science Bulletin article on Planting Science.

Did you see Catrina Adams' #Botany2025 plenary talk on #PlantingScience last night?

She shared so much fantastic info on the program---if you'd like to read more about the program, check out this new Plant Science Bulletin article!

issuu.com/botanicalsoc... #botany #plantscience #plantpeopleftw

🌵🔥 Are cacti going to survive climate change? If you're attending #Botany2025, you are kindly invited to hear our work on the genomic basis of climate adaptation in the Saguaro cactus

Agave sobria, taken in 2024 near La Paz City, Mexico.

The interplay among space, environment, & gene flow drives #genetic differentiation in endemic Baja California #Agave sobria subspecies

New #AJB research by Anastasia Klimova, Jesús Gutiérrez Rivera, Oscar Juárez, Alfredo Ortega Rubio & Luis Eguiarte

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

We are launching the Fourth Edition of the Evolutionary Biology Crash Course ⭐ @evobiocc.bsky.social ⭐. There will be three weeks covering a myriad of topics in evolutionary biology with many practicals.

Please RT to reach as many students as possible.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

human geneticists saying the quiet part out loud

Vol 76 | Issue 9 | 2025 Journal of Experimental Botany Special Issue: Epigenetic Plasticity Cover image: This cover design features an octopus in a glass jar, symbolizing chromatin and the nucleus. The artwork is rendered in the Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) style. The ancient Chinese characters, written in cursive script (草書), represent ‘the dynamic regulation of chromatin’. The Yang seal (朱文) in seal script (篆書) signifies ‘chromatin’; the Yin seal (白文) signifies ‘nucleus’ (credit: Dr. Yihan Dong).

📣 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE 📣

Epigenetic Plasticity: From Model Plants to Crops

📘 Edited by Marco Catoni, Tamara Lechon Gomez, and Aline Probst

📸 Cover image by Yihan Dong

🔗 academic.oup.com/jxb...

#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪

@sebiology.bsky.social @alineprobst.bsky.social‬

Li's lab logo. It has a pink Catharanthus flower with green leaves on the left, and green kalanchoe leaf with a plantlet on the right. The structure of vindoline at the center top, and symbol about gene regulation at the center bottom, text "cxLi Lab" near the bottom, and a grey circle as background.

I'll be joining the Department of Plant Biology at Michigan State University in Mid August as an Assistant Professor.

cxli233.github.io/cxLi_lab/

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

A single domestication origin of adzuki bean in Japan and the evolution of domestication genes |
Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do you love もち (mochi)? If so (or even if you don't), this is an interesting article on the origin of adzuki beans (あずき), source of "red bean paste".

How can physics contribute to understanding the evolution of complexity? Although great results have been produced over the last decades, some recent "theories" appear to ignore key ideas from evolutionary theory and are seriously flawed. Check this paper in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

People diving into a pool of books and figures with "Working Life, How I learned to teach like a scientist" text above the image

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. scim.ag/3Ys7gc7

A tall saguaro cactus let up by the setting sun. The sky is beautiful and lit up in yellows oranges and pinks.

My painting SAGUARO

I am deeply humbled and honored to share that I will join the Plant Biology PhD program at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! So excited for this next chapter, filled with genetics, physioecology, and scicomm! 🌱

🏜️🌾🧬 Me complace invitarles el día de hoy a mi plática en el COLPOS sobre la genética evolutiva del pasto salado bajo la supervisión de Jesse Poland en KAUST
🕕 6 PM hora México:
youtube.com/live/ev3Xsjt...

Up close and personal with a
#scorpion from #Colombia. Tityus (Atreus) icarus, which I had the privilege of describing (and naming!) earlier this year. Yes, I like Greek mythology...

The game has raised wide interest in institutions in North America. We hope Gene Bingo! keeps growing and extending to more kids from around the world!

You can bring evolution to younger minds around you too! Materials and more info are openly available at sites.google.com/view/genebingo/
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Gene Bingo! Introduces key concepts like allele and population while having fun competing with their fellows!
Though a surprising and engaging narrative, Gene Bingo! Teaches the four main mechanisms of evolution: Mutation, migration, genetic drift and natural selection
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Kids from rural Mexico having some fun and learning evolutionary concepts with Gene Bingo!

Gene Bingo cards and what they represent

Want to teach kids how evolution works? 🧒🏽🧒
With @eseb.bsky.social's generous support, my fellow Tate Yawitz and I have designed "Gene Bingo!" 🧬🎱
A fun game that has convinced many kids in the US and Mexico that evolution is important and cool!
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