GrENE-net published in Science
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Our paper “Rapid adaptation and extinction in synchronized outdoor evolution experiments of Arabidopsis” is now published in Science!
Blog posts
2026
2020
GrENE-net–ing … in progress …
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Despite the challenges that 2020 brought, our lab in the Carnegie Department of Plant Biology at Stanford, has been working to process the GrENE-net samples, so we thought we’d share some pictures with landmark events!
2019
GrENE-net is growing up!
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90 enthusiastic researchers and 40 institutions, 45 sites, 12 replicate plots per site, ~5 million seeds distributed and sown. This is how GrENE-net started. A globally distributed experiment to study how the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana may genetically evolve to different climates.
2018
And the first flower price goes to …
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About one year after the official launch of GrENE-net, in Darwin’s 2017 birthday, the first flowers of this globally distributed evolution experiment just opened.
2017
The founder seed mix
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Ever wondered how some million Arabidopsis thaliana seeds look like? (see below)
45 experimental evolution sites
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90 researchers and 40 institutions, 45 sites, 12 replicate plots per site, ~5 million seeds distributed and sown. This is the start of GrENE-net. A globally distributed experiment to study how the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana may genetically evolve to different climates.