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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · 2d

With partners @ibotcz.bsky.social Rothamsted has uncovered how a family of genes that regulate plant hormones in wheat fine-tunes the plant’s growth and grain development - could help breeders produce bigger harvests. 🧬🌱
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/key-whe...

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 3d

📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪

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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org

New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security

Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Sep 3

BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research

This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally

www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Jul 22

DSW Newsletter July 2025 🌱🌾

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · Jun 3

📢New paper! The fungal pathogen Fusarium uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences & cause head blight - discovery could lead to bio-engineered disease-resistant grains @iubiology.bsky.social @plantdisease.bsky.social
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-...

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Jul 4

It was our last visit to Syngenta’s site at Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire which is due to close at the end of the year. Special thanks to Olga and Duncan, it's been great working with you over the years!

DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Jul 4

@johninnescentre.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Jul 4

We've been in the field this week visiting our Breeder's Toolkit trial sites! Thank you Elsoms Seeds, DSV UK, KWS, RAGT, Syngenta, NPZ UK and Limagrain for hosting us.

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Delfi Dorussen @delfidorussen.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵

bioRxiv Plant Bio @biorxiv-plants.bsky.social · Jul 2

Homoeolog expression in polyploid wheat mutants shows limited transcriptional compensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662569v1

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Jun 27

🌾June 2025 newsletter🌾

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jun 23

Congratulations to Dr @philippaborrill.bsky.social and ‘Breaking the Wall of Epigenetics in Crop Breeding’ for being shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025! 🌟

falling-walls.com/breakthroughs

Science Breakthroughs

The Falling Walls Science Summit celebrates the forefront of scientific advancements with breakthrough speakers.

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Joana Amaral @amaraljsc.bsky.social · Jun 13

Great week in the field collaborating with Malcolm Hawkesford's team at @rothamsted.bsky.social as part of the @dsw-isp.bsky.social project 🌾 Special thanks to Nicolas Virlet and March Castle for welcoming us and for all the hard work!
@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social

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Sajjad Raza @sajjadraza.bsky.social · Jun 15

Collected 1-meter-deep soil cores for our Delivering Sustainable Wheat @dsw-isp.bsky.social project. The cores will be scanned using X-ray CT for soil structural and root architectural analyses. @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · May 23

May 2025 newsletter

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · May 16

If you missed the @wheatgenome.bsky.social webinar yesterday with @simongriff.bsky.social "Breeding: Why we need to start over again" watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kZ...

Breeding: Why we need to start all over again

YouTube video by International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium

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International Wheat genome Sequencing Consortium @wheatgenome.bsky.social · May 12

🔔 Final Countdown! Just days left until Simon Griffiths @johninnescentre.bsky.social
webinar on wheat breeding innovation.
💡 Discover why we need to start over and how genomics is rewriting the future of wheat.
🌱 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · May 7

Our wheat researchers @dsw-isp.bsky.social visited the super powerful "microscope" @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to investigate where crucial nutrients like calcium sit within the grain 🔬🌱🍞
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · Apr 25

💬 "Some #fungi can change their behaviour in different environments, so understanding how a changing climate might affect fungal behaviour – and what role Starships play in this – is vital.”

Starships enable new frontier of fungal genome evolution 🚀 🧬 🌱

Starship discovery reveals new frontiers of fungal genome evolution

New insights into large mobile fungal genome elements, called Starships, have revealed more about how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution.

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Journal of Experimental Botany @jxbotany.bsky.social · Apr 25

Expected papers so far span salt tolerance, floral adaptation & cutting-edge phenotyping 🌾📘

Feel free to share with your networks!

@tweeticum.bsky.social @wheatinitiative.bsky.social
@cristobaluauy.bsky.social @dsw-isp.bsky.social @wheatgenome.bsky.social
#JXBspecialissues #PlantScience 🧪 (2/2)

The image shows different important targeted traits of wheat
crop including ROS scavenging, spike
diversity, cold/freezing stress, yellowing
due to stripe rust infection, seed color
diversity, spike mutant of wheat, infes-
tation of wheat by cereal leaf beetle,
leaf blight, root trait phenotyping and
pre-harvest sprouting of wheat spike
(courtesy of Reyazul Rouf Mir).

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · Apr 16

📃 A new study from the Earlham Institute and @rothamsted.bsky.social reveals insights into large mobile #fungal #genome elements - Starships - and how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution. 🖥️ 🧬 🧪

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@rowenahill.bsky.social
#Transposons #PlantScience

Starship discovery reveals new frontiers of fungal genome evolution

The discovery, from scientists at the Earlham Institute and Rothamsted Research, allows researchers to better study how similar species of Pezizomycotina fungus have evolved to adopt radically different lifestyles.

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Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · Apr 15

📢New Paper! Genes regulating wheat growth hormones mapped. The findings could pave the way for new varieties that produce bigger grains and are better suited to the challenges of climate change @jxbotany.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

GIBBERELLIN 3-OXIDASE genes regulate height and grain size in bread wheat

Abstract. In plants, gibberellin (GA) levels are tightly regulated to optimise growth and development. GA 3-oxidases (GA3OX) catalyse a key GA biosynthesis

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations Isabel!

Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations to Isabel Faci @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fascinating talk on how decoupling environmental signals can induce aerial branching in wheat!

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DSW ISP @dsw-isp.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations @katielong.bsky.social

Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations to @katielong.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fabulous talk on the intricate patterns of gene expression in wheat spikes!

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Carmen Escudero Martinez @carmen-escudero.bsky.social · Apr 8

Keynote @monogram-uk.bsky.social #monogramuk25 Breeding: why we need to start all over again? By Simon Griffiths

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Philippa Borrill @philippaborrill.bsky.social · Apr 9

Really enjoying #Monogram2025 so far @ibers.bsky.social Great talk by @chen-ji.bsky.social on her latest work exploring gene expression patterns in wheat grains. So many interesting genes to characterise!

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