George Burton
@cropsandbops
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PhD student based at Kew Gardens 🌍🌺🪷 Food security, crop genetics and history, climate resilient agriculture 🌈 Africa and beyond 🌾 looking for job
Joined February 2019
after submitting my PhD thesis on fonio millet, 2 new pre-prints of my research are available now: a) phylogenetics and history of 4 Digitaria millet crops, and b) germination ecology and climate modelling of fonio suitability in the future 🤠🌾links below! #SSCPDTP #kewscience
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the whole PhD was an incredible experience supported by @Grantham_IC, Kew Gardens, and @NERCscience.
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my first publication from the PhD here: Landrace diversity and heritage of the indigenous millet crop fonio (Digitaria exilis): Socio-cultural and climatic drivers of change in the Fouta Djallon region of Guinea
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White fonio (Digitaria exilis [Kippist] Stapf) is an understudied millet crop, indigenous to West Africa and cultivated in the region largely through traditional practices. This species is climate-...
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b) Impacts of climate change on fonio millet: seed germination and suitability modelling of an important indigenous West African crop:
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a) Phylogenetics, evolution and biogeography of four Digitaria food crop lineages across West Africa, India, and Europe:
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RT @AgroBioDiverse: ‘Not just a museum’: Kenya’s seed bank offers unexpected lifeline for farmers | Global development | The Guardian https….
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Set up to conserve traditional seeds, the Genetic Resources Research Institute is now helping smallholders diversify with crops resilient to the rapid changes in climate
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RT @seyi_shorinola: 1/4 - Check out our pre-print on population genomics in tef - an amazing African cereal with gluten-free grains, rich i….
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RT @FAOGhana: @Fulanichef with the support of @FAO is empowering rural women in Northern 🇬🇭 in the production of #fonio . 🎥Watch this 👇🏽.
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visited the Crop Evolution Lab in Kyoto - thank you so much for hosting me @Toshi_666666 and Ryohei Terauchi 😊🍵 great to learn about the rice breeding programmes and future work on Digitaria ! @KyotoU_News
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RT @FenitraNoro: Take a look at this blog to learn more about the Global Grassy Group and Madagascar grasslands🌾⛰️
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RT @FAOGhana: Stakeholders in the Fonio value chain are calling for a deliberate and sustained effort to boost Fonio production and utiliza….
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RT @DineDiaspora: In Ghana, unpopular grain fonio takes center stage
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Ghanaian chef Fatmata Binta offers a complete traditional Fulani dining experience centered around fonio, a local grain that has almost disappeared from the menu. How does she get people from all...
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need this on a monday.
The James Webb Space Telescope has started capturing images of galaxies so far away that they are causally disconnected from the Earth — nothing done here or there could ever interact. 🧵.1/
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RT @LewisRevely: I’m really proud to share that our paper on the diversity of social complexity in termites has been published!!!.
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anyone know of studies using full Angiosperm353 gene datasets for BEAST2 analysis? 🦁trying to get things going without running things for weeks at a time.
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RT @ionace: Are you a moth-trapper with a spare 10 minutes? If so, please fill in the following survey aiming to understand moth-ers and th….
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RT @LizoMasters: As part of a special issue on 'African Flora in a Changing World', give our paper on the evolution of forage grasses in th….
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RT @ionace: I'm looking for a few more moth trappers who would be happy to help collect parasitoid wasps 🐝🦋 as part of my PhD (equipment an….
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