The Biologist Is In

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

The pineapple we all grew up with is a bright yellow color. The pineapples of today isn't necessarily the same shade. Del Monte is now...

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 ...