The Biologist Is In

A few years back I wrote a short post to introduced a project I had started to breed up a nicely blue colored dry bean.  https://the-biologi...

The last year has been a mess. I'm fine. My family is fine. Most of my friends are fine. The increased anxiety and stress basically shut...

Online seed vendors vary dramatically from the largely respectable, to the folks selling "peppers" like those below that I found ...

The last couple posts have looked at simulations for selection of a single gene, for recessive or dominant alleles. Increasing the number o...

I've been doing some math to help me think about breeding strategies with tomatillos. Last week I showed some code for calculating how ...

I thought it would take me a week to get back to this, but that didn't happen. Oops. Sorry. The big difficulty with tomatillo breed...

Tomatillos are a wonderful vegetable plant to grow. There are several distinct varieties available, but nowhere near the numbers we see for...