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Hélène Pidon
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Reseacher at INRAE, working on resistance to viral mosaics in tetraploid wheats. Views are my own.
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Closing #FSTP5 in Bari, Italy!!! We had excellent time and saw fantastic presentations and posters! We thank the chairs and organisers and are looking forward to come back to Italy for #IWC2026Bologna
September 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Setting everything up for the meeting of our Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding!
#FSTP5
September 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Great talk of Carlotta Award 1st class winner Philippa Borrill
@philippa.borrill.bsky.social
#FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Very nice talk from Klaudia Kruppa second class winner of the Carlotta Award!!! #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Very interesting talk of Samuela Palombieri (Unitus, DAFNE, Italy) first class winner of the Carlotta Award at #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Congratulations to the Carlotta Award winners! What a nice ceremony at #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Istvan Molnar showed us another great introversion ressources, this time from Aegilops. Together with genomics, cytogenetic is a great tool #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Great presentation: Transfer and characterization of wild relative introgressions into durum wheat by Julie King #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Elisabeth Mazzucotelli illustrated great ressources for studying straits: wild and domesticated core collections, emmer NAM population but also collection of more minor wild relatives. All this linked to genomic ressources. Amazing time to be a geneticist! #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I love the results from archeological genomics! Assaf Distelfeld showed us a great example with emmer, providing really nice insights into the domestication #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I don’t know for you but I hate recorded talks… #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Julie King introversion lines from wild relatives and the tools they made to analyse them is a great ressource! Quite impressive work #FSTP5
September 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Time for the first gender balance counting at #FSTP5: this morning we had 16 amazing speakers: 15 men and one woman… this do not reflect the audience gender balance! We can do better! #womeninSTEM
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Curtis Pozniak perfectly illustrated all we can do with those genomic tools, displaying FHB resistance research #FSTP5
September 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Following the talks of Marco Maccaferri and Luigi Cattivelli, I can say that the future of durum wheat genetics looks bright with a lot of genomic tools recently or soon available for the community! #FSTP5
September 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🌾 We're getting everything set up at the From Seed to Pasta conference here in beautiful Bari!
📍 Come visit us at our booth, we can't wait to connect, share ideas, and talk all things pasta, wheat, and innovation.
See you soon! #FSTP5 #Bari2025
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Live from #FSTP5! I’m exited to meet the durum wheat community, my new community! If you want to hear about the research that was carried out in SBCMV and WSSMV resistances and my research axes, come and meet at poster 112. I’ll also be giving a short talk on Friday
September 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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We prepare for From Seed to Pasta V in Bari, how inspiring to look at #FSTP4 in Bologna (2022). Over 300 scientists from 30+ countries joined to support climate challenges, wheat genetics for sustainable pasta. 🌍🍝 #FSTP5 #WheatConnect www.fromseedtopasta.com/fstp-iv-bologna-italy-2022/
FSTP IV - Bologna / Italy 2022 -
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August 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
By posting for the first time in quite a while, I realized I didn’t inform here of my lab change! I’m now working within the GE2pop group of AGAP institut where I’m leading the research on #WSSMV and #SBCMV resistance in durum wheat. Stay tuned for updates on genetic basis of resistances to viruses!
July 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🚨 Our Nature paper is out!
We present a chromosome-scale assembly of a wild barley relative, unlocking insights into virus resistance and genome evolution 🌾🧬
My contribution focused on dissecting the BYDV resistance locus.
#PlantScience #Genomics #Barley #BYDV #NaturePaper
July 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Wild plants can contribute valuable genes to their domesticated relatives. An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social constructed a pangenome of barley’s closest wild relative, Hordeum bulbosum. Results in @nature.com.

➡️PR: tinyurl.com/45ysmkys
➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/msm4sudb
July 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Press release from Stand Up For Science France (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social)
March 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Corentin Maslard made a very nice presentation on effect oh heat and water stress on maize roots and microbial communities. Huge amount of work with multiomics. Roots exudates are the most affected. Heat stress have a mild effect, combined stresses are more than a sum. #ISRR12
June 6, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Fabrice Bauget switch to something more molecular. He showed their work on a model predicting water horizontal flow in the root #ISRR12
June 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Clément Saint Cast showed a method to 3D scan and model pine tree root system. The digitalized and modeled roots were very promising results #ISRR12
June 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM