BEST-CROP Talks: How Regulations Shape the Future of Gene-Edited Crops Regulations are key to NGT innovation: the 2nd BEST-CROP talk explore how evolving EU policies will shape gene-edited crops and the future.

Learn a bit more about the work we are doing under the EU/BBSRC funded BEST-CROP project at our regular webinars. Next even on the 16th December more info here www.eventbrite.it/e/1975055672...

The @hutton.ac.uk Best Crop Project team produced very cool stickers to promote our work using the Germinate database.
Find out more here: germinateplatform.github.io/get-germinate/

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
🔊 Prof. Phil Brewer @latrobeuni.bsky.social
📜 Lateral Branching Oxidoreductase acts in a strigolactone biosynthesis sub-pathway to inhibit barley tillering
⏰ Thursday 30th October 9am (GMT)
🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

The Germans do a good Kasespatzle but not sure it competes with Scottish macaroni and cheese (its close though :-) ).

Nice meeting in Bonn last week to discuss BOLDER (BOLD WP7). Great to meet up with old friends and meet some new people. I also found out its a small world! #BOLDcwr #BOLDER @croptrust.bsky.social our invovlement is using our tools to make data available to all! #germinate #gridscore

One of these guys crapped on me today #raging #downwiththeswallows

American musical satirist Tom Lehrer dies at 97, US media report Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

Sad news (albeit perhaps not unexpected for a man who enjoys poisoning things) the scientist and satirical song writer Tom Leher has died. I always remember hearing the Elements Song in chemistry at school then discovering Poisoning Pigeons in the Park that my kids love! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A couple of years ago while @bazraubach.bsky.social and myself were out at ICARDA in India we ended up being roped into helping write some text for a book which would be used to teach PGR - its been published now :-) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Summer in #scotland with a view from the Sidlaw hills over towards the #angus glens.

The Documentary - The ark of the dry lands - BBC Sounds How a seed bank in Morocco is protecting around 150,000 different seed-types

A really nice documentary on BBC World Service about landraces, genebanks and all stuff PGR. Also includes some of my colleagues at ICARDA and well worth listening to the amazing work that they are doing! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Women's Euro 2025 kits: England, Spain, Germany, Netherlands and & all the top teams' jerseys revealed | Goal.com The ultimate guide to all the kit releases for the 2025 Women's European Championships.

Crop diversity making its way into football with the design of the new Norwegian ladies team kit :-) www.goal.com/en/lists/wom...

Will there be another session or will this one be availble after the event?

Ron Swanson is great!

When exporting in the long-format, you can now include more information about each individual data point. This includes a full timestamp (rather than just the date), the position of this measurement in the set and the person who collected each data point.

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Add even more information to each plot by providing treatment, pedigree or a friendly name.
These provide more information to the person collecting the data.

You can also assign a dedicated barcode for each plot that isn't the same as the germplasm name! This helps keep barcode tags shorter.

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It's update day for #GridScore 🎉
This release includes improvements to:
📝 Add pedigree, treatment, friendly name and barcode info to plots
💾 Include more information in long-format exports
🍎 Prevent automatic date selection on iOS devices
🐞 Bugfixes

#phenotyping #BOLDcwr
gridscore.hutton.ac.uk

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See below - deadline approaching but still time to apply to work on some cool projects looking at how we apply AI technologies to breeding better barley!

You should defintely have a look at this if nothing else than because its got an epic name for a piece of software! #spriggles

A screenshot of Spriggles where an photo of a barley plot is shown. A polygon is used to select the area of interest for vegetation index estimation.

A screenshot of Spriggles showing the geometry transformed selection of the previous screenshot into a right-angled rectangle. The vegetation has been separated from the background and the vegetation index value of ~75% is shown.

A screenshot of a different barley plot showing poor emergence and very low ground coverage. The same polygon selection is made on this image for vegetation index estimation.

A screenshot of the export screen to GridScore. The trial this image belongs to has been selected and the trait "Vegetation index" is selected to export the extracted numeric values into.

We've been working on a small tool for vegetation index estimation from RGB images called Spriggles

🔲 Select area of interest
📝 Export into Excel
📑 If images are taken with #GridScore, export your data straight back into the GridScore trial

#phenotyping #webdev #rse

cropgeeks.github.io/spriggles

And two opportunities working with myself @bazraubach.bsky.social along with the University of Dundee looking at the practical use of AI in barley research. Feel free to shout out for more information!

Have a great time! Looking forward to seeing pictures :-) Remember to send @bazraubach.bsky.social anything if you want us to put it on the CPC website :-)

Definitely worth popping along to learn a bit about the CPC if you are at #chelseaflowershow!

First time back to #floorball in 10 years tonight. Different team, some old teammates, a total lack of fitness and what I assume will be a day hobbling about tomorrow with sore muscles. Was great! Stick tape does not store well for long periods and apparently my equipment was 'vintage'

BARIToNE: The Kernel of Truth: AI and Climate-Smart Cereal Breeding (Project code 25M) at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - BARIToNE: The Kernel of Truth: AI and Climate-Smart Cereal Breeding (Project code 25M) at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

We have 2 PhD oppertunities coming up working with @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and the University of Dundee. The second one is looking at using AI for climate smart cereal breeding supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust under the BOLD project bold.croptrust.org

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BARIToNE: AI for Pedigree Insight: Advancing Climate-Resilient Barley Breeding (Project code 25L) at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - BARIToNE: AI for Pedigree Insight: Advancing Climate-Resilient Barley Breeding (Project code 25L) at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

We have 2 PhD oppertunities coming up working with @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and the University of Dundee. The first one is looking at plant pedigrees and is supported by the Global Crop Diversity Trust under the BOLD project bold.croptrust.org

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The season has kicked off with great momentum! Keep up to date with our progress through the growing season.
#CPC #Potato #Seed #Biodiversity #Horticulture

A busy week for us! From the planting of our pollination parents to the testing of our CPC seedlings. Thanks to Alison and her team for preparing the beds for planting 😀
#potato #biodiversity #seeds #horticulture #genebank

There are certainly worse ways to spend a few days! IPK/CAAS/JHI IBH workshop on cereals being held at @leibnizipk.bsky.social in #Germany this week.

Work trip to @leibnizipk.bsky.social this week. Enjoying a pilsner with colleagues before the meeting starts tomorrow.

First signs of germination!
#seeds #potato #biodiversity