The Oat Newsletter
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The official Blue Sky account of the Oat Newsletter, serving the oat research community around the world. Posts by Charlene Wight, Oat Newsletter editor. https://oatnews.org/
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December 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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At Cereals in June, we awarded Mascani winter oats the Niab Variety Cup. After 21 years on the AHDB Recommended List it is a worthy winner. #NiabHighlights2025
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At Cereals in June, we awarded Mascani winter oats the Niab Variety Cup. After 21 years on the AHDB Recommended List it is a worthy winner. #NiabHighlights2025
Happy Holidays from the #Oat Newsletter! oatnews.org #oats
For those of you into molecular markers, the poster on the door is a collage of images from Christmas ornaments I made using x-ray film back in the days of RFLPs and autoradiograms! #genomics #oats
For those of you into molecular markers, the poster on the door is a collage of images from Christmas ornaments I made using x-ray film back in the days of RFLPs and autoradiograms! #genomics #oats
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Happy Holidays from the #Oat Newsletter! oatnews.org #oats
For those of you into molecular markers, the poster on the door is a collage of images from Christmas ornaments I made using x-ray film back in the days of RFLPs and autoradiograms! #genomics #oats
For those of you into molecular markers, the poster on the door is a collage of images from Christmas ornaments I made using x-ray film back in the days of RFLPs and autoradiograms! #genomics #oats
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How tf are we not actually reading the papers we are citing????
Read. The. Damn. Papers.
Check. Your. References.
ARRRGH 😫😭🙃
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Read. The. Damn. Papers.
Check. Your. References.
ARRRGH 😫😭🙃
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December 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How tf are we not actually reading the papers we are citing????
Read. The. Damn. Papers.
Check. Your. References.
ARRRGH 😫😭🙃
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Read. The. Damn. Papers.
Check. Your. References.
ARRRGH 😫😭🙃
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Descifran el pangenoma de la avena
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
Descifran el pangenoma de la avena
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December 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The #Oat Newsletter has been updated. oatnews.org/node/1368 The newsletter came into being 75 years ago! 🥳 #oats
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The #Oat Newsletter has been updated. oatnews.org/node/1368 The newsletter came into being 75 years ago! 🥳 #oats
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🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏
The 2025 season is coming to an end and harvesting is nearly done. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how it’s getting along.
📰 Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...
#GRDC #CurtinUni
The 2025 season is coming to an end and harvesting is nearly done. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how it’s getting along.
📰 Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...
#GRDC #CurtinUni
December 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏
The 2025 season is coming to an end and harvesting is nearly done. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how it’s getting along.
📰 Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...
#GRDC #CurtinUni
The 2025 season is coming to an end and harvesting is nearly done. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how it’s getting along.
📰 Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...
#GRDC #CurtinUni
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Excellent to have 2 new recommended varieties from the oat and bean breeding teams here @prifaber.bsky.social #oats #fababeans
Big news from IBERS at Aberystwyth University! 🌾
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
December 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Excellent to have 2 new recommended varieties from the oat and bean breeding teams here @prifaber.bsky.social #oats #fababeans
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#GB11 wraps up with 16 resolutions and renewed global cooperation to safeguard the world’s crop diversity. 🌱
Make sure to read all our press releases from GB-11 &its side events: bit.ly/3Mx79sD
📸 bit.ly/3KtAHqx
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
Make sure to read all our press releases from GB-11 &its side events: bit.ly/3Mx79sD
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#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#GB11 wraps up with 16 resolutions and renewed global cooperation to safeguard the world’s crop diversity. 🌱
Make sure to read all our press releases from GB-11 &its side events: bit.ly/3Mx79sD
📸 bit.ly/3KtAHqx
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
Make sure to read all our press releases from GB-11 &its side events: bit.ly/3Mx79sD
📸 bit.ly/3KtAHqx
#ItAllStartsWithTheSeed #FoodSecurity
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Big news from IBERS at Aberystwyth University! 🌾
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Big news from IBERS at Aberystwyth University! 🌾
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
Two new IBERS-bred varieties just gained top industry recognition:
• Rannoch → added to the AHDB Winter Oat 2026–27 Recommended List
• Hepworth → added to the PGRO Pulse Descriptive List for 2026
Find out more: https://ow.ly/159U50XGjBu
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Un consorcio científico internacional descifra el pangenoma y el origen de la avena
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
Un consorcio científico internacional descifra el pangenoma y el origen de la avena - Revista Alimentaria
El equipo, en el que han participado investigadores del IAS-CSIC, ha descifrado el genoma completo de este cereal y ha elaborado su atlas de expresión genética Un consorcio científico internacional de...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Un consorcio científico internacional descifra el pangenoma y el origen de la avena
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
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#cienciaparalagricultura #CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicandalextrem.bsky.social @iascsic.bsky.social #CeResLab_IAS @ibncanales.bsky.social
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Registration is now open for MONOGRAM 2026! 🌾
📝 Submit your abstract by 23rd January
🐦 Early-bird registration closes 2nd February
Register now 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo
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December 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Registration is now open for MONOGRAM 2026! 🌾
📝 Submit your abstract by 23rd January
🐦 Early-bird registration closes 2nd February
Register now 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo
@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
📝 Submit your abstract by 23rd January
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@monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience
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Discover East Lothian’s farming history and explore how rural life shaped the region’s identity over generations.
Down Memory Lane: Looking back at East Lothian's farms in times gone by
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December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Discover East Lothian’s farming history and explore how rural life shaped the region’s identity over generations.
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Despite twelve years of negotiations, delegates at #ITPGRFA #GB11 failed to reach consensus on a package of measures to enhance the functioning of the @planttreaty Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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#agriculture #food
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#agriculture #food
November 30, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Despite twelve years of negotiations, delegates at #ITPGRFA #GB11 failed to reach consensus on a package of measures to enhance the functioning of the @planttreaty Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
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GWAS for grain and forage quality traits in a subtropical oat germplasm collection adapted to highland regions of Eastern Africa
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Genomic characterization of a nematode tolerance locus in sugar beet
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Genomic characterization of a nematode tolerance locus in sugar beet
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Genome-wide association mapping for grain and forage quality traits in a subtropical oat germplasm collection adapted to highland regions of Eastern Africa
Oat ( Avena sativa L.) is a globally important cereal cultivated for both livestock feed and human nutrition. However, its productivity is increasingly constrained by both biotic and abiotic stresses,...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
GWAS for grain and forage quality traits in a subtropical oat germplasm collection adapted to highland regions of Eastern Africa
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Genomic characterization of a nematode tolerance locus in sugar beet
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Genomic characterization of a nematode tolerance locus in sugar beet
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Talks at #ITPGRFA #GB11 went late on the capacity-development strategy and action plan, the Funding Strategy, and farmers' rights
Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
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November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Talks at #ITPGRFA #GB11 went late on the capacity-development strategy and action plan, the Funding Strategy, and farmers' rights
Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
Closed-door consultations continued on the enhancement of the Treaty's Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
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Is Evolution Predictable? Experiments in an Evolutionary Video Game
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Evolutionary Rewiring of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway in Poaceae
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Evolutionary Rewiring of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway in Poaceae
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Is Evolution Predictable? Experiments in an Evolutionary Video Game
The outcome of evolution sometimes appears to be predictable, as in the evolution of the same characteristics independently in convergent evolution. Other times, evolution's path depends on starting c...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Is Evolution Predictable? Experiments in an Evolutionary Video Game
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Evolutionary Rewiring of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway in Poaceae
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Evolutionary Rewiring of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis Pathway in Poaceae
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Want to dig deeper into Thursday's #ITPGRFA #GB11 deliberations?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
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Daily report for 27 November 2025
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November 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Want to dig deeper into Thursday's #ITPGRFA #GB11 deliberations?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
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At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addressed draft resolutions, including on the implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
At @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11, plenary addressed draft resolutions, including on the implementation and operations of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
Highlights ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#ITPGRFA #food #agriculture #farmers
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#GB11 opened in Lima, a first for Latin America and co-hosted by Peru and Switzerland.
Delegates and partners united to advance global cooperation on conserving and sharing crop diversity.
🎥 Watch the key moments from Days 1–2.
@fao.org @faoenespanol.bsky.social
Delegates and partners united to advance global cooperation on conserving and sharing crop diversity.
🎥 Watch the key moments from Days 1–2.
@fao.org @faoenespanol.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
#GB11 opened in Lima, a first for Latin America and co-hosted by Peru and Switzerland.
Delegates and partners united to advance global cooperation on conserving and sharing crop diversity.
🎥 Watch the key moments from Days 1–2.
@fao.org @faoenespanol.bsky.social
Delegates and partners united to advance global cooperation on conserving and sharing crop diversity.
🎥 Watch the key moments from Days 1–2.
@fao.org @faoenespanol.bsky.social
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Want to dig deeper into today's @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11 talks in Peru?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
Daily report for 26 November 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Want to dig deeper into today's @planttreaty.bsky.social #GB11 talks in Peru?
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
Read the full Earth Negotiations Bulletin daily report
➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
#agriculture #food
**TODAY** The webinar will begin soon (11 am GMT-3).
Join us for the global launch of #OAT2026, the 12th International Oat Conference, on Thursday, November 27th, 11 am Chilean time (GMT-3). More information, along with a link to the webinar (in English), is on the IOC page of the #Oat Newsletter: oatnews.org/node/127 #oats
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
**TODAY** The webinar will begin soon (11 am GMT-3).
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At #ITPGRFA #GB11, as talks on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing of plant genetic resources for #food and #agriculture moved behind closed doors, issues related to genetic sequence data #DSI took center stage
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November 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
At #ITPGRFA #GB11, as talks on the enhancement of the Multilateral System of access and benefit-sharing of plant genetic resources for #food and #agriculture moved behind closed doors, issues related to genetic sequence data #DSI took center stage
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/plant-geneti...