
Marina Millán Blánquez
@blanquezmarina
PhD student @JohnInnesCentre working in stigma survival and receptivity in bread wheat 🌾
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14-04-2019 16:35:09
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NEWS - Dr Philippa Borrill featured in Royal Society video to inspire a new generation Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing for developing sustainable, resilient wheat in a new series of The Royal Society videos featuring Brian Cox okt.to/d3LUgM

Happy to share our last paper in the The Plant Journal ! We reported how green revolution Rht genes influenced cross-pollination efficiency in wheat🌾 Special thanks to Humboldt-Stiftung Leibniz IPK UNLP CONICET Dialoga Wheat Initiative onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #wheat #plantscience

Huge congratulations to Katie! 🌟👏 Find out more about Katie here: jic.ac.uk/people/katie-l… Norwich Research Park Katie Long Building Robustness in Crops

Our preprint is out! Excited to share some of my PhD work with Philippa Borrill #BorrillLab – Wheat NAC transcription factor NAC5-1 is a positive regulator of senescence biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/6

📺 Watch: 🐄🌤 What inspired you to become a scientist? What’s your advice to potential scientists? Learn more in this interview with Dr. Swati Nayak. #WomeninScience @IRRI

Why do we still struggle to have gender balance in science? Read mine and Hafssa Kabbaj thought about this question and more below. It’s our right to have equal access to education, be respected and listened to at work and to make a difference in this world

Check out our latest paper: "On the pixel selection criterion for the calculation of the Pearson's correlation coefficient in fluorescence microscopy". Thanks to co-authors Sebastian Samwald (Basti) Sally Jones and @pd_christine !!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Congrats to Marina Millán Blánquez for her PhD defence. Thanks to Beverley Glover & Paul Nicholson for the examination. We are all so proud of you !! … especially with the great hat!


Congratulations Marina Millán Blánquez on an excellent thesis defence - I really enjoyed discussing your work with you today and I just love your wheat carpel hat! Congrats also to Cristobal Uauy and Scott Boden and thank you for inviting me today


It has been a long journey, but our work on FUL genes in pea is finally out! Thanks to the great @IreneVSN Vicente Balanzà Tom Warkentin pacomad, CristinaFerrandiz, Chloe, Ana and everybody contributing! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…


Check out our Women in Triticum podcast series! We loved chatting with incredible women, and we hope their stories will inspire more. Thank you so much Borlaug Global Rust Initiative for featuring us!

Our latest paper exploring the role of Photoperiod-1 during wheat inflorescence development is now out in Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…, led by Adam Gauley Adam Gauley🧵







Delighted to have this community effort online Nature Plants 👉We unified the nomenclature of a unique membrane that enclosed the 🌱 sperm cells as the: PERI-GERM CELL MEMBRANE read more: 📖nature.com/articles/s4147… 📖rdcu.be/dW1Ie
