DSW ISP
@dsw-isp.bsky.social
Delivering Sustainable Wheat (DSW) is a collaborative Strategic Research Programme, involving 11 institutes, universities, and organisations, funded by BBSRC.
🔗 https://wheatresearch.ac.uk/
🔗 https://wheatresearch.ac.uk/
Excited for a second #GreenHorizons training session with undergrads on #PlantScience that feeds the world! Today we’ll learn about the new tools that are transforming plant breeding, and what the future could look like for wheat. 🌾 🌱 #STEMCareers #FutureOfFood
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Excited for a second #GreenHorizons training session with undergrads on #PlantScience that feeds the world! Today we’ll learn about the new tools that are transforming plant breeding, and what the future could look like for wheat. 🌾 🌱 #STEMCareers #FutureOfFood
We're still buzzing after yesterday’s session with 95 amazing students diving into plant science, food security, and sustainability. Their enthusiasm and questions show that the next generation of scientists is ready to make a difference. 🌾🌱
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We're still buzzing after yesterday’s session with 95 amazing students diving into plant science, food security, and sustainability. Their enthusiasm and questions show that the next generation of scientists is ready to make a difference. 🌾🌱
🌾 Excited for today’s training session with undergraduates exploring food security, wheat research & careers in plant science. #GreenHorizons #PlantScience #FoodSecurity #WheatResearch #Sustainability #STEMCareers #FutureOfFood
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🌾 Excited for today’s training session with undergraduates exploring food security, wheat research & careers in plant science. #GreenHorizons #PlantScience #FoodSecurity #WheatResearch #Sustainability #STEMCareers #FutureOfFood
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Team JIC are having a cracking time in the “Future of Farm and Agriculture” @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social zone at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com this weekend 🌟🌾
We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!!
@dsw-isp.bsky.social
We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!!
@dsw-isp.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Team JIC are having a cracking time in the “Future of Farm and Agriculture” @farmersweeklyuk.bsky.social zone at New Scientist Live @newscientist.com this weekend 🌟🌾
We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!!
@dsw-isp.bsky.social
We’re here on Monday too - come along and see stomata down a microscope and our wonderful wheat varieties!!
@dsw-isp.bsky.social
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“MARTi has its origins in software we developed for really rapid identification of #pathogens in preterm infants, but we’ve since adapted it to use in a wide range of settings...including in agriculture, and biosurveillance..."
A powerful new tool for real-time analysis of #nanopore #metagenomics 👇
A powerful new tool for real-time analysis of #nanopore #metagenomics 👇
New software tool MARTi fast-tracks identification and response to microbial threats.
Scientists at the Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a powerful new tool for the real-time analysis of nanopore metagenomics.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
“MARTi has its origins in software we developed for really rapid identification of #pathogens in preterm infants, but we’ve since adapted it to use in a wide range of settings...including in agriculture, and biosurveillance..."
A powerful new tool for real-time analysis of #nanopore #metagenomics 👇
A powerful new tool for real-time analysis of #nanopore #metagenomics 👇
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Super excited to see our bioRxiv paper out! It furthers our understanding of an FHB resistance locus in timopheevii with some DON resistance too!
A segment of Triticum timopheevii chromosome 3G confers type II Fusarium head blight resistance and reduces DON accumulation in wheat. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.684833v1
October 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Super excited to see our bioRxiv paper out! It furthers our understanding of an FHB resistance locus in timopheevii with some DON resistance too!
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💬 “It’s operationally very lightweight, you can use it in-field for taxonomic classification on a standard laptop, or undertake larger, complex analysis using HPC.”
💻🧬 Scientists at Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a new tool for real-time #nanopore #metagenomics.
@genomeresearch.bsky.social
💻🧬 Scientists at Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a new tool for real-time #nanopore #metagenomics.
@genomeresearch.bsky.social
New software tool MARTi fast-tracks identification and response to microbial threats.
An open-source software tool that powers real-time analysis and visualisation of metagenomic data
buff.ly
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
💬 “It’s operationally very lightweight, you can use it in-field for taxonomic classification on a standard laptop, or undertake larger, complex analysis using HPC.”
💻🧬 Scientists at Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a new tool for real-time #nanopore #metagenomics.
@genomeresearch.bsky.social
💻🧬 Scientists at Earlham Institute introduce MARTi, a new tool for real-time #nanopore #metagenomics.
@genomeresearch.bsky.social
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High fibre white flour developed at Rothamsted passes the taste test - Genetic differences in wheat varieties have been used to develop lines with naturally higher dietary fibre - and bread fans love it! 🍞👍 @uniofreading.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/high-fi...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/high-fi...
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
High fibre white flour developed at Rothamsted passes the taste test - Genetic differences in wheat varieties have been used to develop lines with naturally higher dietary fibre - and bread fans love it! 🍞👍 @uniofreading.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/high-fi...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/high-fi...
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PhD studentship
Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠
Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)
Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠
Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)
Combatting wheat take-all disease with in-field and synthetic microbial communities
www.earlham.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
PhD studentship
Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠
Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)
Come help us understand the wheat rhizosphere at the Earlham Institute 🦠
Working at the interface of fungal antagonists & pathogens (@rowenahill.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social ), host genetic diversity (Simon Griffiths -JIC) and bacterial community diversity (Jacob Malone -JIC)
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With partners @ibotcz.bsky.social Rothamsted has uncovered how a family of genes that regulate plant hormones in wheat fine-tunes the plant’s growth and grain development - could help breeders produce bigger harvests. 🧬🌱
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/key-whe...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/key-whe...
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
With partners @ibotcz.bsky.social Rothamsted has uncovered how a family of genes that regulate plant hormones in wheat fine-tunes the plant’s growth and grain development - could help breeders produce bigger harvests. 🧬🌱
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/key-whe...
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/key-whe...
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📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪
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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org
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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org
New wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security
Newly-discovered diversity in the wheat genome could offer vital new opportunities to improve and ‘climate-proof’ one of the world’s most important staple crops.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📃 New research published today in @natcomms.nature.com from the Earlham Institute and @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social presents the first wheat pan-transcriptome - revealing layers of hidden diversity spanning our modern wheat variations. 🧪
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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org
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@wheatinitiative.bsky.social @ukri.org
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BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research
This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally
www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally
www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
September 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research
This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally
www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally
www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...
DSW Newsletter July 2025 🌱🌾
July 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
DSW Newsletter July 2025 🌱🌾
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📢New paper! The fungal pathogen Fusarium uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences & cause head blight - discovery could lead to bio-engineered disease-resistant grains @iubiology.bsky.social @plantdisease.bsky.social
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-...
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-...
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢New paper! The fungal pathogen Fusarium uses a specialized protein to weaken plant immune defences & cause head blight - discovery could lead to bio-engineered disease-resistant grains @iubiology.bsky.social @plantdisease.bsky.social
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-...
Read the full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/fungal-...
We've been in the field this week visiting our Breeder's Toolkit trial sites! Thank you Elsoms Seeds, DSV UK, KWS, RAGT, Syngenta, NPZ UK and Limagrain for hosting us.
July 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We've been in the field this week visiting our Breeder's Toolkit trial sites! Thank you Elsoms Seeds, DSV UK, KWS, RAGT, Syngenta, NPZ UK and Limagrain for hosting us.
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I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵
Homoeolog expression in polyploid wheat mutants shows limited transcriptional compensation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.01.662569v1
July 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵
It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social
The key take-aways, a 🧵
🌾June 2025 newsletter🌾
June 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🌾June 2025 newsletter🌾
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Congratulations to Dr @philippaborrill.bsky.social and ‘Breaking the Wall of Epigenetics in Crop Breeding’ for being shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025! 🌟
falling-walls.com/breakthroughs
falling-walls.com/breakthroughs
Science Breakthroughs
The Falling Walls Science Summit celebrates the forefront of scientific advancements with breakthrough speakers.
falling-walls.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Congratulations to Dr @philippaborrill.bsky.social and ‘Breaking the Wall of Epigenetics in Crop Breeding’ for being shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025! 🌟
falling-walls.com/breakthroughs
falling-walls.com/breakthroughs
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Great week in the field collaborating with Malcolm Hawkesford's team at @rothamsted.bsky.social as part of the @dsw-isp.bsky.social project 🌾 Special thanks to Nicolas Virlet and March Castle for welcoming us and for all the hard work!
@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Great week in the field collaborating with Malcolm Hawkesford's team at @rothamsted.bsky.social as part of the @dsw-isp.bsky.social project 🌾 Special thanks to Nicolas Virlet and March Castle for welcoming us and for all the hard work!
@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
@lancasterplantbio.bsky.social
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Collected 1-meter-deep soil cores for our Delivering Sustainable Wheat @dsw-isp.bsky.social project. The cores will be scanned using X-ray CT for soil structural and root architectural analyses. @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Collected 1-meter-deep soil cores for our Delivering Sustainable Wheat @dsw-isp.bsky.social project. The cores will be scanned using X-ray CT for soil structural and root architectural analyses. @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social
If you missed the @wheatgenome.bsky.social webinar yesterday with @simongriff.bsky.social "Breeding: Why we need to start over again" watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kZ...
Breeding: Why we need to start all over again
YouTube video by International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
If you missed the @wheatgenome.bsky.social webinar yesterday with @simongriff.bsky.social "Breeding: Why we need to start over again" watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kZ...
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🔔 Final Countdown! Just days left until Simon Griffiths @johninnescentre.bsky.social
webinar on wheat breeding innovation.
💡 Discover why we need to start over and how genomics is rewriting the future of wheat.
🌱 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh
webinar on wheat breeding innovation.
💡 Discover why we need to start over and how genomics is rewriting the future of wheat.
🌱 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh
May 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🔔 Final Countdown! Just days left until Simon Griffiths @johninnescentre.bsky.social
webinar on wheat breeding innovation.
💡 Discover why we need to start over and how genomics is rewriting the future of wheat.
🌱 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh
webinar on wheat breeding innovation.
💡 Discover why we need to start over and how genomics is rewriting the future of wheat.
🌱 Secure your spot now: tinyurl.com/2k78bmmh
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Our wheat researchers @dsw-isp.bsky.social visited the super powerful "microscope" @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to investigate where crucial nutrients like calcium sit within the grain 🔬🌱🍞
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...
May 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Our wheat researchers @dsw-isp.bsky.social visited the super powerful "microscope" @diamondlightsource.bsky.social to investigate where crucial nutrients like calcium sit within the grain 🔬🌱🍞
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...
Read the full story👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/wheat-r...
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💬 "Some #fungi can change their behaviour in different environments, so understanding how a changing climate might affect fungal behaviour – and what role Starships play in this – is vital.”
Starships enable new frontier of fungal genome evolution 🚀 🧬 🌱
Starships enable new frontier of fungal genome evolution 🚀 🧬 🌱
Starship discovery reveals new frontiers of fungal genome evolution
New insights into large mobile fungal genome elements, called Starships, have revealed more about how they jump between fungal species and influence their evolution.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
💬 "Some #fungi can change their behaviour in different environments, so understanding how a changing climate might affect fungal behaviour – and what role Starships play in this – is vital.”
Starships enable new frontier of fungal genome evolution 🚀 🧬 🌱
Starships enable new frontier of fungal genome evolution 🚀 🧬 🌱