After a very dry start, these small field plots are looking not too bad. We’ve introduced novel alleles of genes for enhancing yield into an elite background. Work from an old International Wheat Yield Partnership project and a current GRDC tender. Next year proper sized trials at multiple sites
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
🌿 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
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
Extreme way to replenish TPA soil bins?
🚨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...
A class of university students learning about experimental design on a sunny lawn
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
Young dolphin surfacing for air
Young dolphin swimming upside down past a paddle board
Paddle board practice. Fell in so many times the local lifeguards came to check out I was ok. #dolphins #paddleboard
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
"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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...
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/...
Logo of MicroClock programme, with photos of Martha Merrow, Antony Dodd and Akos Kovacs
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...
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. 🐮🌱
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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
Not my usual plant/crop post but festive instead- Cairngorm reindeer. #holidays
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.
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
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.
Come join us!
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...
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
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
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
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
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
Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience
Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more.
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