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Long, hot, sticky but thoroughly satisfying day of field data collection. Huge thanks to @lornamca.bsky.social for the help and positivity! It’s a blessing to have such awesome lab members 🙏 #fieldtrials

This week, I found myself in my proudest moment yet - Implementing the @monogram-uk.bsky.social ECR pre-conference workshop. I really underestimated how it would feel to accomplish something like this, but I was in awe of the community we developed over the day.

Some great times had with great colleagues at #MonogramUK2025 at @aberuni.bsky.social. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @surbhigrewal.bsky.social

We are privileged at @UoNResearch to have Martin Mascher of @leibnizipk.bsky.social talking to us. Thanks @surbhigrewal.bsky.social for hosting!

Congrats Jack!!

More great work from the Uauy lab at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Isabel Faci talks meristems and mixed environmental signals, and highlights teamwork, in the #MonogramUK2025 MECEA presentation session. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Stunning images from @katielong.bsky.social at @johninnescentre.bsky.social for the #MonogramUK2025 MECEA award presentations. Great work! @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Congratulations to the ECR New Lecture Rank Prize winner Jim Fouracre from @brisunipress.bsky.social. Beautiful examples of the differing phenology in juvenile to adult plants. Horticultural brain is happy. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @rankprize.bsky.social

Exciting changes coming in wheat production. Nick Bird from KWS talks about a very exciting new and efficient system in hybrid wheat using blue-coloured seed! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Genetics and bioinformatics 😍. Interesting talk by Lucy Mahoney of @earlhaminst.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025 looking at regulatory regions in the wheat genome. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

So much exciting work with drones happening in UK field trials at the moment. Andrew Riche from @rothamsted.bsky.social talks about hyperspectral imaging by drones at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Fascinating presentation by Martin Vickers on the use of drone technology at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Very cool! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Kicking off Day 3 of #MonogramUK2025 with Ji Zhou from @niab-uk.bsky.social on linking AI and phenotyping with genetics. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

We are at #Monogram @ibers.bsky.social wonderful networking with the wheat and cereal research community. @johninnescentre.bsky.social @dsw-isp.bsky.social

Thanks to organisers and chairs of #Monogram2025 for giving me the opportunity to present my latest work on wheat wild relative introgressions. @uonresearch.bsky.social

From @leibnizipk.bsky.social, Zhenru Guo talks about BRANCHED SHOOT1 and its influence over whole plant architecture. #monogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Deepak Kumar from @leibnizipk.bsky.social on his vision for hybrid wheat. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

A contender for the best pun at #MonogramUK2025: The Fast and the Floriferous by Indi Lacey from @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @tweeticum.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Very interesting talk from Stephen Pearce of @rothamsted.bsky.social on novel dwarfing genes at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Excellent talks in the #monogram2025 crop genomics session from Martin Mascher of @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @surbhigrewal.bsky.social from Nottingham University @monogram-uk.bsky.social

The wonderful Stéphanie Swarbreck from @niab-uk.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025 with a really interesting talk on cereals for low input and regenerative agriculture. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Good morning little wheat seeds, time to wake up and start growing! 😊 Seed germination in process!

Greatly enjoyed Delfi Dorussen's talk today at #Monogram2025. A very eloquent presentation of her work on met1 mutants in #wheat, which is now published in JXB. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... @monogram-uk.bsky.social @delfidorussen.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social @jxbotany.bsky.social

Chidemma Gift Omenoba-Nee Ubah from at #MonogramUK2025 on the location of rye introgressions in wheat, and how they can influence disease response. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Love the work on triads from the Borrill group at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. @delfidorussen.bsky.social talking about the role of DNA methylation in wheat at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

My former supervisor and brilliant mentor Surbhi Grewal from Notts WRC talking at #MonogramUK2025 about identification of new introgressions in wheat. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

The bar is high today for beautiful slides! Martin Mascher talks about genebanks, genomics and genetic diversity at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Beautiful slides from Chen Ji at @johninnescentre.bsky.social at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Emily Lyon @monogram-uk.bsky.social poster session describing her Baritone PhD work studying water update during malting #monogram25

Guy Golab of @leibnizipk.bsky.social on metabolism and how variation in growth can shape wheat adaptation. #MonogramUK2025 @ibers.bsky.social @monogram-uk.bsky.social

A 9am talk is a brave time to introduce maths to a room of plant scientists, but Lorna made easy work of it. Great slide! #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Wanton Chen of @rothamsted.bsky.social talking about fructans reducing the susceptibility to biographic fungi at #MonogramUK2025.

Day 2 of #MonogramUK2025 kicks off with my brilliant colleague Lorna McAusland ‘Turning up the Heat’. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Really enjoyed the first day of #Monogram2025. All speakers did a fantastic job! A great testament to the UK research community. Looking forward to day 2!! @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Come see me at my poster PRU-5 at #MonogramUK2025 to talk N-fixation in cereals! @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Our #MonogramUK2025 host Aiswarya Girija of @ibers.bsky.social talks about sprouting to improve the biofortification of cereal based foods. @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Hard-hitting talk with lots of data about chronic diseases from @ondrejkosik.bsky.social from @rothamsted at #MonogramUK2025 , and how we can combat them through cereal dietary fibre. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Elena Baldoni on Acrylamide-reduction in wheat through understanding the genetic basic of free asparagine accumulation at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Jessie Shadbolt’s @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social PhD focuses on characterising the physiological implications of contrasting alleles of HvHMA5 in barley. It’s good copper, bad copper time for #monogram25

After a coffee break (with Welsh cakes!) we’re back this afternoon at #MonogramUK2025 looking at Quality and Nutrition. Catherine Howarth from @ibers.bsky.social kicks it off talking about improving the oat crop for sustainability and quality. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Great example of a research presentation made accessible to those not in the same niche. Jessica Shadbolt at #MonogramUK2025. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Understanding root growth angle in response to drought stress - Sibongale Zimba talking at #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

Oliver Powell talking genetics and bioinformatics for crop immunity, before he’s even started his PhD! Thanks for the kind shoutout about the #MonogramUK2025 ECR workshop. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Beautiful photos of propagation of mistletoe from @thepallavisingh.bsky.social! Very interesting talk about their ambitions to graft monocots to divots. #MonogramUK2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

A microbiologist at #MonogramUK2025! Emily Radford using the predatory Myxobacteria as a biocontrol for crop diseases. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @ibers.bsky.social

Glad to be back to our annual @monogram-uk.bsky.social commentary ways!

#Monogram2025 Session 2 is underway, featuring an exciting line-up of talks on “Crop Diversification for Food, Forage, and Bioenergy.” -- #Monogram2025 Mae Sesiwn 2 ar y gweill, yn cynnwys rhestr gyffrous o sgyrsiau ar "Arallgyfeirio Cnydau ar gyfer Bwyd, Porthiant a Bioynni."

Day 1 of #Monogram2025 is underway! Kicking off with a welcome from Prof. Iain Donnison of #IBERS and the Rank Prize Session. -- Mae diwrnod 1 o #Monogram2025 ar y gweill! Yn dechrau gyda chroeso gan yr Athro Iain Donnison o #IBERS a Sesiwn Wobr y Rank.

It has been wonderful to present @monogram-uk.bsky.social and meet cereal researchers.