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📢New study: Aphid populations attacking lettuce fields in England show surprising east-west geographical split that could complicate control efforts...🪲🥬
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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. 🧬🌱
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At the Earlham Institute Drs @rowenahill.bsky.social and @mcmullan0.bsky.social are working with @rothamsted.bsky.social to answer fundamental questions in the evolution of plant pathogens.
Postdoctoral Researcher Rowena Hill
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📢New paper: study ranks the threats to soil resilience, and suggests that farming systems are increasingly vulnerable to tipping points, where sudden collapse of productivity becomes irreversible.
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Happy to share that our multi-omic analysis comparing two Arabidopsis accessions is now published 🌿 The first story from our @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa #plant #proteostasis project. A great collaboration between @rothamsted.bsky.social @richardmott.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk and Kathryn Lilley at Cambridge.
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We have just published a paper in Genome Biology, rdcu.be/eIMLf. We explore the information flow between genome, gene body methylation, transcriptome, translatome and proteome in Arabidopsis. This is part of a BBSRC-funded collaboration with UCL, Rothamsted Research and University of Cambridge.
Information flow between omic  levels in Arabidopsis thaliana
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NEWS:🌾 First rice trials in the UK!

UKCEH scientists are growing cold-hardy rice on rewetted peat in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Nine varieties, four mini paddies and a big question: can rice thrive in UK conditions?

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Rice plants growing in water in a small paddy field plot on peatland Drone view looking straight down on several fields with lots of square and rectangular plots visible Scientist stands beside a rectangular paddy field plot full of water located in a field Scientist planting rice in a field with two figures saying 1st rice trials in the UK; and 9 varieties of rice from around the world
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📢New paper! A common soil fungus could help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fungicides, new research suggests, by producing natural airborne chemicals that suppress devastating plant diseases @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
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📢New Paper! British livestock farmers 🐄👩‍🌾 could save time & money using a simplified method to measure grass growth. Researchers at the North Wyke Farm Platform tested a streamlined diagonal “pasture walk” rather than the usual W-shape.
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📢New paper: Innovative field macropore test can accurately track soil health. Infiltration matched with X-ray scans and measurements of soil respiration reliably captures differences in soil structure and function.
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"Environmental physics was pioneered in the 1950s by the physicists Howard Penman & John Monteith, based at the Rothamsted Experimental Station" - Peter Hughes @physicsworld.bsky.social argues that env. physics should be taught to every physics undergraduate 🧑‍🎓📈
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Environmental physics should be on a par with quantum physics or optics – Physics World
Peter Hughes argues that environmental physics should be taught to every physics undergraduate
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📢New paper! Using advanced bioinformatics, researchers have re-annotated the genome of Zymoseptoria tritici (septoria leaf blotch) highlighting major flaws in previous genetic analyses @inrae-france.bsky.social 🧬🌱
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Desert wadis are lifelines for biodiversity & water in dry landscapes, but they are being dangerously constricted. New research in Oman shows that agriculture and the dumping of debris are reshaping river dynamics.
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📣New Study: Collapse in UK insect populations may be overstated, but local communities are being reshaped by CC & development 🐝🪲🦋🦗🪰🐞@btobirds.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/insects...