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  I use a combination of DNA sequences and fossil records to study the evolutionary history of plants. Using paleoclimate models, I am particularly interested in how plant diversity respond to major climate upheavals in the past ~65 million years, which may shed light on the potential impact of current global warming on plant communities.

  
  
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Recent Posts

mhsmirandaspring2022 project 9 Liming Cai Mar 7 at 05:32pm

Hi Jose,

I agree with Wanderson that the reason you are not seeing high germination rate for low water condition may be that your plants require a minimum humidity for germination. I look forward to your replication because it will tell us if…

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Hi Jose,

I agree with Wanderson that the reason you are not seeing high germination rate for low water condition may be that your plants require a minimum humidity for germination. I look forward to your replication because it will tell us if such low germination rate is truly a result of water restriction or other variables in the experiment. Keep us updated.

Liming

mhsmirandaspring2022 project 9 Liming Cai Feb 22 at 05:18pm

Dear Adrian and Jibran,

So nice to hear from you! Thank you for sharing your stories. I lived in Riverside, CA for a year and flew over Fresno couple time. It is amazing to see the massive agricultural lands in the central valley. I am now a…

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Dear Adrian and Jibran,

So nice to hear from you! Thank you for sharing your stories. I lived in Riverside, CA for a year and flew over Fresno couple time. It is amazing to see the massive agricultural lands in the central valley. I am now a postdoctoral researcher based in the University of Texas at Austin. Before this, I completed my PhD degree at Harvard in 2020. My personal journey in science started when I was little. I grew up in a city called Changzhou in China. It is a very urbanized region but my family enjoyed traveling to different parts of the country so that we can get closer to nature. I have been curious about plants and animals around me and wanted to know their names. So I decided to major in biology as a college student. In college, I took an introductory evolution class during my first semester and I made a flora for our campus. I learned so much about plants during the whole process and then I joined labs who focused on plants. When I joined a research lab, I travelled all the way to northwest China to collect plants from the cabbage family (Brassicaceae) to study their evolutionary history. It was a life-changing experience as I found such an occupation that can take you to different parts of the world. I have since committed myself to this career.

Best,

Liming

TCB Liming Cai Nov 17, 2021

That would be what we expect. But we need to make sure this is not due to infertile spores. Do you observe any germination in positive controls?

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