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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Sep 7

Last day of the Royal Adelaide Show. ARC ITTC Future Crops’ PhD student Ciara Danes helping visitors build terrariums for growing wheat. Over 700 terrariums built during the show! University of Adelaide Adelaide University School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.

PhD student Ciara Danes building terrariums to grow wheat plants, as part of an Adelaide University and ARC ITTC Future Crops outreach program at the Royal Adelaide Show

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.

PhD student Lukas John sampling plant tissue from a barley trial growing in South Australia.

The OzBarley barley diversity panel growing in South Australia

Bettina Berger and Stuart Roy standing in front of the OzBarley barely diversity panel.

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Aug 30

ARC ITTC Future Crops Centre and Adelaide University School of Agriculture Food & Wine stall at the Royal Adelaide Show. Find us in the Golden Grains Pavilion. Come build wheat terrariums, paint with different soils, try cricket chips 🦗 and see what you can smell in our wine ferments.

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Jul 23

Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants

Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Jul 23

Out in the paddock sampling the OzBarley population for our new GRDC project to understand novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley. With @bberger-au.bsky.social and a team from the Australian Plant Phenomics Network.

A team of researchers in the field collecting leaf tissue from a number of breeding plots of barley

Breeders plots of barley growing in the field

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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · May 3

🌿 SAVE THE DATE: ASPS Conference 2025!
Join us 24-27 November at Flinders University, South Australia!
Registration opens in June. Stay tuned for program details and abstract submission information. www.asps.org.au/asps25

#ASPS2025 #PlantScience #Conference

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Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS) @asps-oz.bsky.social · Apr 28

Applications for the prestigious ASPS awards (Jan Anderson Award, Peter Goldacre Award, Teaching and Outreach Award) have been extended until 6 June 2025.
For detailed information and application guidelines, see www.asps.org.au/awards

Australian Society of Plant Scientists » Awards & Funding

https://www.asps.org.au/awards."

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Apr 27

Extreme way to replenish TPA soil bins?

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨Our team is hiring!!! If you are an image and data researcher, we might have the right job for you. Join a diverse team and apply your skills to address the big questions of climate resilience in agriculture and food security. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

careers.adelaide.edu.au

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Mar 21

Best place to teach experimental design and statistics - Out in the sun with students being an active part of the experimental design. First up, the importance of randomisation. Big thanks to University of Adelaide’s maths learning centre for all your help

A class of university students learning about experimental design on a sunny lawn

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Mar 8

Paddle board practice. Fell in so many times the local lifeguards came to check out I was ok. #dolphins #paddleboard

Young dolphin swimming upside down past a paddle board

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Bettina Berger @bberger-au.bsky.social · Mar 6

BARLEY RESEARCHERS – apply to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Study phenotypic traits or methods on ~220 elite barley lines. More info here www.plantphenomics.org.au/2025-ozbarle... #NCRISimpact #GRDC

2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers

Crop researchers are invited to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and Queensland to study phenonmic traits and validate…

www.plantphenomics.org.au

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westobymark.bsky.social @westobymark.bsky.social · Feb 18

"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research

This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

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Stephanie Watts-Fawkes @mycoresearch.bsky.social · Feb 2

New paper! @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social

AM fungi decreased the bioavailability of micronutrients (Zn + Fe) in rice 🌾

We used Synchrotron XFM to look at micronutrient concentrations in the aleurone layer of +/- AMF rice, and compared them to wholegrain concentrations 🧐

doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase aleurone layer zinc concentration but reduce overall zinc bioavailability in rice grain

Rice is a critical crop for the delivery of calories and essential micronutrients to the human diet. Biofortification of rice with zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) aims to combat the health issues associated ....

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Ali Gill @aligill.bsky.social · Jan 22

Excited to share our latest research! Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can improve the water use and P acquisition efficiencies of aerobically grown Aus rice 🌾🍚 @mycoresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Improve the Water Use and Phosphorus Acquisition Efficiencies of Aerobically Grown Rice

Most rice production is conducted in flooded (anaerobic) soil conditions, but aerobic rice cultivation presents several potential benefits: increased grain water use efficiency (gWUE), reduced methan....

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · Jan 13

Post-doc opportunity in my lab at JIC, on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock and interactions with plants. Part of ERC Synergy programme "MicroClock", collaborating with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and Martha Merrow #chronobiology @microclockerc.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

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ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding @nextgenbreeders.bsky.social · Jan 6

New year, new job! 🚀 If you are an agricultural science graduate this unique and exciting position could be yours.

Apply to be our Centre Training Coordinator and develop training opportunities for the next generation of plant and animal breeders. 🐮🌱

bit.ly/4fi64xj

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Dec 17

Not my usual plant/crop post but festive instead- Cairngorm reindeer. #holidays

Two reindeer standing in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland on a rainy day

A reindeer standing in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland on a rainy day

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Dec 5

Managed to get it all done yesterday. 42.7°C at the site today, we wouldn’t have been out in that for a number of reasons.

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Dec 5

Completed harvest of #GRDC field trials looking at novel #alleles for improved growth/yield in wheat in rain fed areas. Amazed we got anything from the trial with late sowing (lack of rain), little in season rain, and a frost. Big thanks to #ARC #FutureCrops students and staff who helped out.

ARC Future Crops Development PhD student Yiting Xie, hand harvesting genotyping plots.

ARC Future Crops Development PhD student Alex Seward setting up the mobile thresher

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The Tattooed Professor @schwessinger.bsky.social · Dec 5

Come join us!

Science & Medicine at ANU @scienceanu.bsky.social · Dec 5

The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity (@arc-pbtc.bsky.social) has NINE PhD scholarships now open.
Each come with integrated placements in government or industry and professional development for future research leaders. plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au/phd-opportun...

PhD Opportunities

We’re seeking outstanding PhD applicants to innovate novel approaches to prevent, respond to, and recover from plant pests and diseases that threaten the economy and environment. See the bene…

plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au

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Antony Dodd @antdodd.bsky.social · Nov 28

Come and work with us at the John Innes Centre! We’re recruiting a technician to investigate circadian rhythms in plants and bacteria. Expertise in microbiology, gene cloning, imaging are welcome #chronobiology #arabidopsis #bacillus www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...

Research Assistant (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre, conducting cutting-edge research into circadian rhythms in bacteria and plants.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Scott Boden @scottboden.bsky.social · Nov 28

We’re so grateful to GRDC for supporting our research investigating heat resilience in wheat - great collaboration with @hikemaydon.bsky.social and Sunita Ramesh
👉 bit.ly/3AVR8ag

Unravelling the biochemistry of heat response

A project was launched in 2023 to subject heat-responsive biochemical pathways in wheat to rigorous analysis. The aim is to scan for new opportunities to provide wheat breeders with tools to select fo...

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Nov 28

Australian Society of Plant Scientists: #ARC #FutureCropsDevelopment #PhD students presenting their industry led projects: novel salt tolerant wheat; improved barley nitrogen use efficiency; AI to improve flowering time predictions in crops; and enhancing root growth to improve yield. #asps24

PhD student Alex Seward presenting his poster on understanding a novel wheat variety that accumulates high concentrations of sodium in vegetative leaves but still has good yield

PhD student Ben Kurya presenting a poster on his work to alter plant architecture and improve the nitrogen use efficiency of barley

PhD student Yiting Xie giving a talk on his project which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to combine images of growing plants with weather data to obtain accurate flowering time predictions

PhD student Ciara Danes who is looking to improve plant root growth to enhance yield

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StuRoy1 @sturoy1.bsky.social · Nov 27

Ok, no more lurking, time to start posting

Happy to share our #TiPS #review of #HKT and role in #salttolerance is now #OpenAccess bit.ly/4i6WT5I
Review written by a fantastic joint Uni Nottingham & Uni Adelaide #PhD student. #WeAreUoN #UniAdelaide

Hypothesised role for HKT transporter in Arabidopsis and wheat during salt stress, which reduces sodium accumulation in floral tissue. Higher leaf sodium vaccination does not always affect yield

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