On Wednesday, October 12 at 10am Pacific time, PLOS is hosting a #SciWed redditAMA related to a recent Plos Genetics paper on a fungus that severely impacts banana crop yields. Igor Grigoriev, DOE JGI’s Fungal Genomics head, is participating, along with DOE JGI collaborators Steve Goodwin at USDA-ARS and Gert Kema at Wageningen University. Check out the Plos blog regarding the paper.
Join us on redditscience at http://plos.io/GENAMA78 to ask questions – such as those about genomes of fungal pathogens infecting crops – and follow the AMA. Here’s how to sign up on redditscience to be able to ask questions:
(1) Visit redditscience https://www.reddit.com/r/science/
(2) Click “sign up” in the upper right hand corner
(3) Create username & password
(4) To show enthusiasm about a particular AMA, click the up arrow next to the topic page.