Andy Read 🌱🦠

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A panel from a scientific manuscript made up of four panels each representing a different public spring wheat breeding program. The panels show stacked orange and blue bars with each bar represents a decade and the proportion of blue shows how often a reduced height gene is found in material tested in that decade. The data show that the programs in minnesota, montana, and north dakota all include Rht-B1 in most of their material, while South Dakota does not.
a figure from a scientific papers composed of three panels. A single petunia flower is photographed in each panel. The left petunia is mostly red or purple but has areas of white at the margin of each petal. The center panel is a completely red or purple flower - this is what we expect wild type flowers to look like. The third panel shows an almost completely white petunia flower
Hundreds of wheat plants occupy two benches in a greenhouse with LED lights overhead. A yellow hose is stretched out between the two long rows of plants.
This is a closeup image of wheat plants in a disease trail nursery. There are yellow streaks on the otherwise healthy and green leaves caused by bacterial leaf streak