The Biologist Is In

          I've recently been working on further developing a bioinformatics pipeline called YMAP [1] that I wrote during grad school. Y...

My ongoing project to produce distinctly blue dry beans occasionally throws a surprise at me. This spring, two plants with bright red flower...

Plant breeding involves a great deal of luck and you can have some really good success with that. Luther Burbank produced numerous amazing p...

After several years of looking for a truly blue dry bean, I started actively working to produce my own variety in 2018 when I was gifted a f...

In my last post ( https://the-biologist-is-in.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-color-of-beans-3.html ), I shared a couple figures illustrating the f...

Years ago I heard a story. The story teller's cousin has been growing potatoes and tomatoes each of the last several years. Some years,...

A great deal of research has gone into our understanding of how colors are made in plants. I've previously written about the carotenoid ...