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🌱 Plant Sciences
🌎 Sustainable Futures
💚 Accessibility in Applied Biology

Submit your nomination by 31st May 👉 aab.org.uk/aab-presidents-medal/

#plantscience #sustainableag

Induced resistance in barley how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence YouTube video by James Hutton Institute

ICYMI, last week's IBH seminar from @szytynska.bsky.social is now on our YouTube channel.
Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence
youtu.be/q4bPD_oo6-s?...

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ag...

Barley was a key early crop in the origins of agriculture, but its ecological range and cultural importance declined over time as farming systems evolved and wheat became more abundant.
phys.org/news/2026-02...

Identification and molecular mapping of a new Hessian fly resistance gene in the spring barley variety ‘Golf’ - Theoretical and Applied Genetics Key message Hessian fly resistance in the spring barley variety ‘Golf’ is controlled by a new gene located in the terminal region of the short arm of chromosome 4 H. Abstract Hessian fly (HF) is a dev...

Identification and molecular mapping of a new Hessian fly resistance gene in the spring barley variety ‘Golf’
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
📜 Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence
🔊Sharon Zytynska, University of Manchester, UK
⏰ Wednesday, 15th April 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10a377...

Our latest newsletter is out now!

🗣️ This month check out our upcoming events and read all 'aabout' March's meetings including reports on #Monogram2026 and #VOF2026 from our early-career awardees

Read it full 👉 buff.ly/QMcy3le

A vibrant future for barley: highlights from the 2026 International Barley Hub Stakeholder Meeting over 80 professionals gathered for the annual IBH Barley Stakeholder Meeting

A vibrant future for barley: highlights from the 2026 International Barley Hub Stakeholder Meeting #betterbarley
www.hutton.ac.uk/blog/a-vibra...

A few memories from @monogram-uk.bsky.social 2026! Thanks again to @aabiologists.bsky.social. See you all at #monogram27

It's going to be a fun day! Look forward to seeing you there!

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
📜 Integrated Approaches in Barley Functional Genomics: Omics Resources, Transformation Tools, and Seed Vigor
🔊 Lingzhen Ye and Mengdi Li, Zhejiang University, China
⏰ Wednesday, 1st April 2026, 10:30 - 12:00 GMT
🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e9c9b2...

Congratulations to Baritone PhD student Zoe Marshall winning @newphyt.bsky.social sponsored @monogram-uk.bsky.social poster prize! #monogram26

Great representation @monogram-uk.bsky.social 2026 from Sarah McKim, @mirischreiber.bsky.social and David Ashworth
@hutton.ac.uk
#monogram26
#dundeeuni

#Monogram2026 Session 9 -
Decoding Monocots: Genetics for Impact

🧬 Emily Carr @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
💧 David Ashworth @hutton.ac.uk
🌾 Denis-Florentin Sfrangeau @niab-uk.bsky.social

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!):

“Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species”
📅 11–12 June 2026
📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid)

We look forward to welcoming you!

Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

A perfect end to #Monogram2026! 🌾 Our team of researchers and visiting colleagues had an incredible time sharing posters and talks this week. It is the hard work and dedication of these individuals that drive our research in plant resilience forward.
#PlantScience

Day 1 of @monogram-uk.bsky.social was a great success! The UK small grain research network is alive and well! #monogram26

We're kicking off #Monogram2026 at Robinson College today with the Rank Prize talk from Cyrille Saintenac 👏👏

🌾 From resistance to susceptibility to Septoria tritici blotch: the Stb16q story 🌾

@monogram-uk.bsky.social @rankprize.bsky.social @robinsoncollege.bsky.social

Looking forward to #Monogram26 in Cambridge!
Registration is now open...

Monogram cereals and grasses research network logo.

We're pleased to support Monogram 2026, taking place in Cambridge this week!

web.cvent.com/event/6d5dbf...

Learn more about the events supported by The New Phytologist Foundation: www.newphytologist.org/grants-award...

#PlantScience

It’s @monogram-uk.bsky.social 2026! @stephaniemswarbre.bsky.social kicks the meeting off welcoming delegates to Cambridge #monogram26

And so it begins... #Monogram26

For the second year, the ECR workshop organised by
@nikkiwalter.bsky.social was very well attended...

Lovely to host so many Monogram researchers at @niab-uk.bsky.social for a day.

#plantsciences #crops

Introgression of wild barley alleles improves seedlings salinity tolerance in the nested association mapping HEB‐400 population Some wild barley alleles improved seedling growth tolerance traits under saline stress. Several HEB lines outperformed the elite cultivar Barke under saline conditions. Genome-wide association study...

Introgression of wild barley alleles improves seedlings salinity tolerance in the nested association mapping HEB-400 population
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Base #malt is an essential ingredient for ale/beer, providing the fermentable malt sugars in the mash tun. This piece on base malt explains so much about the skills of the modern maltster and, yes, I learned a lot from reading it even though I've been studying malt and malting for ages. Excellent!

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️
📜 When the Dance Goes Off Beat: Barley Mutants Expose Meiotic Recombination Pathways
🔊 Isabelle Colas
⏰ Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5384bc...

Genetic dissection of spike morphology in Australian barley panel: Insights from a multi-model GWAS and haplotype analysis Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a globally important cereal crop increasingly challenged by climate variability and shifting agronomic demands. Spike m…

Genetic dissection of spike morphology in Australian barley panel: Insights from a multi-model GWAS and haplotype analysis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unveiling the Mysteries of Tillering: Insights into the Genetic, Hormonal, and Environmental Regulation in Cereal Crops for Improved Grain Yield - Plant Molecular Biology Reporter Tillering is a complex developmental process in cereal crops, regulated by an intricate network of genetic, hormonal, and environmental signals. Key regulators, including TB1/FC1, IPA1/SPL14, and stri...

Unveiling the Mysteries of Tillering: Insights into the Genetic, Hormonal, and Environmental Regulation in Cereal Crops for Improved Grain Yield
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

EoRNA2: Autonomous Data Discovery and Processing for Databasing of Gene Expression Data
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Identification and characterization of 13 gene families encoding enzymes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis in barley and their roles under abiotic stress
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

IBH Webinar | Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand - Barley Hub IBH Seminar | Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand

ICYMI, Gotz Hensel's IBH Seminar from last week (Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand) is available to watch here:
barleyhub.org/ibh-seminar-...

Rare pink daffodils might be growing in your garden - could you spot one? The national flower of Wales also comes in white, orange and salmon-pink, but this variety is now rare.

Rare pink daffodils might be growing in your garden - could you spot one?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...