🌾 Calling all crop genomics enthusiasts! Join us for the postgrad course "Advanced Techniques in Crop Breeding & Genomics: From Speed Breeding to CRISPR", led by experts Drs. Cristóbal Uauy & James Simmonds. 🧬 📆 Dec 13-14 at UACh. ✅ Registrations now open! Universidad Austral de Chile

🌾 A new tool for wheat genotyping! 🧬 The "Triticum aestivum Next Generation (TaNG)" array developed by the team University of Bristol Biological Sciences takes advantage of recent developments in wheat sequencing & provides higher precision for genetic mapping bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Make no mistake. The Kew herbarium moved out of sight and mind to Reading is heading for the slow death as seen at Duke. In a few management cycles with noone watching it will be easy to make the same tragic mistakes science.org/content/articl…

1/ Pre-war wheat could hold the key to securing and improving future harvests. Led by the UK John Innes Centre and China (AGIS-CAAS), scientist from across the globe have concluded a 20 year study to decipher the genomes of over 800 pre-war wheats. jic.ac.uk/press-release/…

Yiliang Ding John Innes Centre ShifengCheng CEPAMS Yes.. great example of what UK and China can do together. Incredible leadership from Simon Griffiths over 20 years and ShifengCheng, alongside the wonderful Luzie Wingen and FengCong, who led a large team to bring this effort to the community.

Cristobal Uauy John Innes Centre This is a paper of extraordinary significance in the future of food .

PRESS RELEASE - Finding hidden genetic treasure: study uncovers untapped diversity in historic wheat collection A decade-long collaborative study into the Watkins Collection has discovered huge genetic potential that is untapped in modern wheat varieties okt.to/1wfgr3

Our research showing that “The powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4 also confers resistance to wheat blast” is available now in Nature Plants! 🌾🌾 nature.com/articles/s4147…

NEWS - Hope from an unexpected source in the global race to stop wheat blast New research unexpectedly reveals that wheat varieties with resistance to another pathogen, powdery mildew, also confer protection against wheat blast okt.to/7qypmh Norwich Research Park

Did you catch Dr Simon Griffiths talking to @HillFT on Farming Today about our pioneering research with the Watkins Collection of landraces this morning? 📻 Listen here (starts 9:02): bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

Congratulations, Cristobal Uauy! You rock!!!

EVENT - Delivering Sustainable Wheat (Delivering Sustainable Wheat) in Practice Applications are OPEN for this exciting two-day, online course providing an entry-level intro to #wheat research 🗓️ 12 - 13 November 2024 ⏰ Deadline - 17 July 2024 Find out more and apply: okt.to/dyEBUD

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-mil…

I met with Ms.Melissa Park of ICAN. We were honored to meet her in Nagasaki this past January and to hear her speak again in Geneva. Thank you very much! She will also be our guest speaker at tomorrow's side event! We are waiting for you 🕊️🙌🏻 #NPTPrepCom #NPT #NPT2024

#平和首長会議 の松井会長と鈴木副会長は7月23日、中満国連事務次長中満泉と面会し、#核兵器 廃絶に向けた国連と平和首長会議の連携について意見交換を行いました。

We joined 1,200 others calling on the @AttorneyGeneral to meet Chris Packham & Dale Vince over the punitive sentencing of the #WholeTruthFive. Without peaceful protest we are limited from speaking truth to power and living our faith. 📢 ⚖️💚 ow.ly/MuKZ50SIUZj

My review of the most impressive molecular breeding and germplasm utilization article I've read in at least a decade just went online. rdcu.be/dQUaF The authors original amazing paper on the Watkins landrace wheat collection is here nature.com/articles/s4158…

NEWS - Prestigious award recognises wheat researcher’s outstanding contribution to farming Congratulations to Dr Simon Griffiths, the 2024 winner of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) The Royal Agricultural Society of England award for Science and Technology. okt.to/XQ94wb

These two absolute legends of John Innes Centre getting the recognition they so deserve. You could not imaging two more supportive and caring mentors who just happen to also be outstanding scientists than Andy and Nik