Duckweed as a model system for plant immunity 🌱. Why? Tiny, ~32hr doubling time, easy to grow, interspecific diversity in response and reduced MTI/ ETI pathways. Find out more in our pre-print Ksenia Krasileva biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…🧵 1/7

And we're off! Celebrating #fascinationofplants at the Plants of the Future Open Day Norwich Research Park today! Lots of interactive stalls and exhibits from The Sainsbury Laboratory John Innes Centre Quadram Institute Earlham Institute! Join us from 10:00-16:00! #norwichplants

Here we go! Lab open day to show off all the wonderful science we do here #FascinationofPlantsDay #NorwichPlants

Ecstatic to post our first preprint since the lab relocated to The Sainsbury Laboratory! Fab work single-handedly done by super postdoc Michelle Hulin 🦸‍♀️ In addition to exciting findings, it provides resources and bioinformatic pipelines. Please check out! x.com/biorxiv_plants…

bioRxiv: A pandemic clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus (2022) | Scoop.it sco.lt/8Jzh7Q biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Many congratulations to Amber (Amber N. Hafeez) for passing her PhD viva today! Thanks to James B, Laetitia, Burkhard, Shifeng, Griffiths and many others for the collaborations.

With the community effort, we have compared three genomes of #soybeanrust (genome size >1 GB and ~93% TEs) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

bioRxiv: The soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi displays transposable element proliferation that correlates with broad host-range adaptation on legumes (2022) | Scoop.it sco.lt/4jjS1g biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Go Rabbits! We came, we saw, we didn't really conquer but we looked 10/10 in our rabbit ears! #MagnusLepores #TSLretreat #TeamRabbit Yufei Li @Vidya__hree Maheen Alam inma Sreya Ghosh

Congratulations 🥳

Pathogen surveillance is crucial for preventing disease outbreaks. But are we looking in the right places? 🤔 Our blast hunters Cristina Barragan Thorsten Langner scouted for blast disease and found it on wild grass in Germany, in the middle of the European cereal belt. Warning!⚠️

Another piece of exciting news - our t-shirts for Norwich Science Festival have arrived! Look out for us at #NorwichScienceFestival at The Forum Norwich in our yellow shirts with the John Innes Centre logo 💛👩‍🔬 Not sure what's on? norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on 🧬 Norwich Research Park

Our manuscript in Nature Plants: A wheat kinase and immune receptor form host-specificity barriers against the blast fungus. Brande Wulff Sanu Arora Newton Fund and Many thaks Prof Paul Nicholson Many Thanks for the support I recived from STDF nature.com/articles/s4147…

📢📢 UPDATED GUIDELINES to name genes in wheat. Please take the time to go over this. We have provided examples of how to name genes, alleles, haplotypes, SNP markers, etc in the genomics era. A real community effort led by Scott Boden and Bob McIntosh doi.org/10.1007/s00122…

Great work by James Simmonds Nikolai Adamski - @nikolaiadamski.bsky.social Andy Chen & Pam to sow our first transgene-free genome edited wheat field trial. We will test cis-regulatory edits on yield components. Science-based regulation to move research into field! European Research Council (ERC) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research #GiveGenesAChance

NEWS - Opportunity to join the Biofortification Hub now open A new innovation hub on Norwich Research Park focused on biofortification research is now open to membership applications from the UK industry and academic research community Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Quadram Institute okt.to/YokT3v

Where would we be without our top influencers! #monogram23 1/2

So excited to share our new preprint on the chromosome-scale annotated genome assembly of Triticum timopheevii, an allotetraploid wheat wild relative species. This is the first time when the G subgenome of Triticeae has been sequenced. Check it out! 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out now from the Open Wild Wheat Consortium: ‘Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome’. 46 Tauschii genomes shed new light on the bread wheat D genome history. Almost 40% of the D genome gene content resulted from secondary hybridization events. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Very grateful for this cross-institutional collaboration with OpenWildWheat.org: new genome resources & genes cloned/characterized, and novel insights into wheat's evolutionary history.