Yeah, sure, you can publish your Pisum phylogenetic tree the usual way:
But isn’t it a whole lot better to do it like this?
That’s the author, Mike Ambrose of the John Innes Centre Germplasm Resources Unit showing off his handiwork. Thanks to Nora Castañeda for the photo. It’s all happening because of the PGRSecure conference in Cambridge, UK. which you can follow on Twitter.
LATER: And thanks to Jim Croft for pointing out something similar from Down Under.
Pity Nora couldn’t get a drone for the aerial shot.
At the moment I took the photo, I was imaging myself being 20cm taller (but a drone is definitely a better way for capturing this exhibition)
Looking through the abstracts of the PGRSecure conference I was delighted to find I have half a CWR – a rocket relative – named after me: Erucastrum woodiorum Jonsell from Yemen. The only herbarium specimens were collected first by JRI Wood in 1978 and then by me in 1979 from the same locality entirely a chance coincidence. Jonsell called it `of the Woods’. I know of no other plant species where two unrelated collectors with the same name get half a species each named after them. Unfortunately I did not recognise the plant as a CWR so no seed.