Dune Russet (COTX08063-2Ru) is the first French fry russet potato cultivar released by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program. It derives from a cross made by the Colorado State University Potato Program between Premier Russet and A99073-1 and was subsequently selected and advanced by the Texas Program. Dune Russet has oblong potato tubers with light russet skin texture and white flesh. It is characterized by having excellent F...

Earth's biodiversity is central to ecosystem health and resilience, providing essential functions and services. The Red Sea is a recognised marine biodiversity hotspot with high endemism and unique environmental conditions that support extensive but poorly resolved biodiversity. Here, we applied metagenomic analyses to sediment samples collected from coastal to deep‐sea environments during the Red Sea Decade Expedition 2022 to...

While coral bleaching is a well‐known consequence of marine heatwaves, rapid coral mortality via tissue disintegration is an understudied threat; one that precludes any chance of recovery. We show that tissue disintegration can occur within hours to days of acute heat stress, marking a critical survival threshold. Micro‐scale oxygen measurements indicate rapid deoxygenation of coral tissue immediately preceding tissue disinteg...

Feldspars, the most abundant mineral group in the Earth’s crust, exhibit a striking chemical and structural variety resulting from variations in their crystallisation environments and post-crystallisation processes. Since feldspars record both formation and alteration processes and conditions, they are key components in geological studies and valuable for developing tools to reconstruct past environmental change. Thermally and...

Tropical rivers are major contributors to global carbon cycling, yet the microbial communities driving these transformations remain largely uncharacterized. We investigated bacterioplankton communities along the northwest Congo watershed using 16S rRNA and metagenomic sequencing, paired with hydrological, biogeochemical, and greenhouse gas data. In large rivers, community composition correlated with temperature and water trave...

Biogenic structural complexity is a key driver of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, yet its ecological and environmental determinants remain poorly understood across broad biogeographic scales. Here, we conducted standardized 90‐day field experiments at 16 coastal sites, spanning a 41‐degree latitudinal gradient, using naturally assembled marine fouling communities on settlement panels. We measured rugosity as our metric...

Distributed optical fibre sensing (DOFS) is a technology that enables continuous, real-time measurements of a range of environmental parameters along the length of a fibre optic cable. In this article, we review the recently emerged applications of DOFS techniques in physical oceanography and offer a perspective on the technology's potential for future growth within the field. The introduction of DOFS to physical oceanography...

One of the key ecological processes affected by climate change is plant carbon uptake. However, there is substantial uncertainty about how plant carbon uptake will respond to warming in mountain ecosystems, which are known for sharp temperature gradients and abrupt shifts in vegetation structure. Specifically, we lack an understanding of whether these response trajectories over time will be linear or non‐linear, and how they m...

Biallelic KIF1C variants are associated with a spectrum of neurological phenotypes, including spasticity, cerebellar ataxia, chorea, and dystonia. Most reported patients involve single-nucleotide variants, whereas copy number variants (CNVs) have been described only once in the PubMed-listed literature. The therapeutic potential of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) in KIF1C -related disease has not yet been evaluated. We report a p...

To effectively mitigate disturbances from human activities on vulnerable dolphin populations, it is crucial to understand fine‐scale variation in habitat use. This study investigated the habitat utilisation of a small subpopulation of Hector's dolphins ( Cephalorhynchus hectori ) in Porpoise Bay, New Zealand. Passive acoustic monitoring was conducted from January to August 2020 using two T‐PODs deployed in the inner and middle...

Extensive knowledge exists on plant‐species traits and functions, but we understand less about how population‐ or community‐level emergent traits influence ecosystem functioning. This knowledge gap is important for ecosystems like peatlands, arid drylands, salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangroves, where emergent traits of plant communities can create plant‐environment feedbacks that amplify or dampen ecosystem processes....