NCSU Christmas Tree Genetics lab
Raleigh, NC
Joined July 2021
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Years ago I decided to only publish and serve on @plantdisease journals. I have an automated response I use for requests from other journals. Recently, several colleagues have asked me for it, so decided to share here in case it is helpful 😁 #AcademicChatter
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Thanks to Justin Whitehill and the entire @WhitehillLab for spending time at the Upper Mountain Research Station in Laurel Springs #NorthCarolina. Great learnings on the challenges facing the Xmas tree industry… 🎄
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Excited to have our article published alongside one of my favorite microscopy images of Sitka spruce stone cells! Thank you to @NewPhyt for featuring our work!
On the cover: Sitka spruce stone cell cluster (green) contrasted against polyphenolic cells (magenta) and primary walls (blue).
📖 Read the article by Whitehill et al. ow.ly/ykpK50PAq9k
Image courtesy of Justin G. A. Whitehill
ALT Sitka spruce stone cell cluster contrasted against polyphenolic cells and primary walls.
ALT Schematic of Sitka spruce current-year apical shoot growth, experimental design, and sample collection for RNA sequencing of developing stone cells.
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🆕The latest issue of New Phytologist is out today!
🍃 Flowers leakier than leaves but cheaper to build
🍃 Carbon budget of nitrogen-fertilized boreal Scots pine forest
🍃 Demystifying the Venus flytrap action potential
📚 ow.ly/HI4m50PAp0H
@wileyplantsci #PlantScience
ALT Cover of New Phytologist 239:6. Sitka spruce stone cell cluster contrasted against polyphenolic cells and primary walls.
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Our newest #invasive pest, elm zigzag sawfly, is on the move. This piece might overplay its impact, but Jessica Cancelliere @NYSDEC is right- don't overreact! We have pesticide trials underway, so hopeful for control options soon. Report it if you see it!
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ALT Schematic of Sitka spruce current-year apical shoot (CYAS) growth, experimental design, and sample collection for RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) of developing stone cells.
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Deer browsing can cost thousands of dollars in lost product and increased expense to Real Christmas Tree Growers - 🦌 🌲
Attending @NCchristmasTree Winter Meeting - “How the smell of Christmas may protect #FraserFir against DEER browse.” - @WhitehillJustin - @WhitehillLab
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Christmas tree season may be over, but our researchers study the tree's genetics all year. 🎄 Thanks to a nearly $385,000 grant, @WhitehillLab, in partnership with @NCAgriculture, will construct a 3,200-square-foot seed processing facility in Ashe County. ncst.at/Wlu250MyoTF
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🌲The @NC_PSI is ushering in the holiday season with a 15-foot-tall, 500-pound holiday tree, thanks to help from the @WhitehillLab Learn more about the tree and how it was selected. ➡️ ncst.at/iKwX50M8INR
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.@NCState researchers are one step closer to harvesting the first crop of genetically-improved Fraser firs for growers to plant in their fields. Learn about the @WhitehillLab's plans to construct a 3,200-square-foot seed processing facility in Ashe County: ncst.at/g8aA50M56ih
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Want to know how we're creating the perfect #ChristmasTree? Check out @NBCNews's recent interview with @WhitehillLab and watch how science brings Christmas joy into your home!
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The National Christmas Tree, managed by @NationalParkFdn, is outside the White House & has usually been live/transplanted. From 1934 to '38, two N.C. "green firs" alternated as the Nat'l Tree in Lafayette Park. A cut N.C. #FraserFir was the Nat'l Tree in 1971. @WhitehillLab – at Raleigh, NC
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Join us for our PSI holiday party on December 8th where we'll all decorate the tree to reflect our denominations and diversity!
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The #NC_PSI is keeping it real this holiday season. Thanks to #ChristmasTree Genetics Program PI Justin Whitehill for the delivery, and retired @NCState #extension faculty, Dr. Earl Deal, the main grower at Smokey Holler Tree Farm, for our beautiful Fraser fir #holiday tree!
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We’re gonna need a bigger stand! Thanks to @WhitehillJustin and his team for setting up @NC_PSI with such a beautiful #HolidayTree!
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Tracy Taylor had big shoes to fill when he became Upper Mountain Research Station superintendent. Like his grandfather before him, he’s guiding the station in directions that meet farmers’ ever-changing needs. Read about this family legacy ▶️ ncst.at/QAAh50LIeuV #CALSMagazine
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Looks like @NCState's @WhitehillLab made it on @NCAgriculture's nice list this year. We wish them a jolly congrats for receiving funds from the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program to develop Fraser fir #christmastree genotypes with enhanced genetic resilience to a major #pest.
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.#NC_PSI thinks about Christmas all year!🎄The Christmas Tree Genetics Program (@WhitehillLab, @NCStateCNR) integrates #genetic, biochemical, ecological, entomological & pathological techniques to advance the #ChristmasTree industry in NC & the US.
bit.ly/3g0dWuy #IAmPSI
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Less than 1⃣0⃣0⃣ days 'til 🎄🎅Christmas!
There are scientists working their magic year round to protect our quintessential Christmas tree from #climatechange.
I take you inside @WhitehillLab @NCState ⬇️
#climatmatters @ClimateCentral @Queen_City_News
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