Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social. 🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Delighted to be selected for the Carlotta Award celebrating female wheat researchers 🎉 Thank you to the committee - it was lovely to meet you in Bari! I am sure this award will continue to promote women's contributions to wheat research under the stewardship of @wheatinitiative.bsky.social

The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team! They will work on homeolog-informed approaches to tackle cold tolerance in wheat @johninnescentre.bsky.social Please find out more and apply here: jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?... #plantsciences #plantscijobs

Exciting times to be at @johninnescentre.bsky.social ! www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...

Fantastic opportunity to start your independent career at the JIC here. Great startup package. Repost = nice. Thank you!!!

🌾🧬 SPECIAL ISSUE RESEARCH 🌾🧬 📝 Varying gene dosage through mutating DNA methyltransferase 1-1 (MET1-1 ) in polyploid wheat generates quantitative changes to CG methylation without the lethal consequences observed in other crops - Burrows et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

In #wheat mutants we've long wondered if the expression of homoeologs is upregulated to compensate. Could that explain homoeolog redundancy? Spoiler alert: no! Great summary by lead author @delfidorussen.bsky.social ⬇️ and the whole preprint is here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #plantscience

Wonderful to see such a range of plant model organisms featured in @cp-devcell.bsky.social. From crops like wheat and maize all the way through to liverworts, algae & ferns!🌾🌿🌽🥬🦠 Many opinions including why I propose using wheat as a model to investigate polyploidy: doi.org/10.1016/j.de...

It's an honour to be shortlisted for the Falling Walls Foundation Science Breakthrough of the Year 2025 for our work on epigenetics in crop breeding. I'm excited to see where this work leads us! Here we describe our first steps into epigenetic mutants in wheat doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

EVENT - “Fundamental Biology of Legume Crops” Workshop Discuss the latest research in genomics, metabolomics, biotic interactions and plant development. 💻 Application deadline: 16 July 2025 🗓️ 3 - 4 November 2025 📍The John Innes Centre, NR4 7UH Find out more and apply: okt.to/fgZCWB

Our latest work found that homoeolog expression bias is inherited for ~26% of triads in wheat. Intriguingly we found that new patterns of homoeolog expression bias are more frequent when one of the parents is a landrace. Read more in Genome Biology: rdcu.be/eokf2 @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Looking for the direct target genes of a transcription factor in #wheat? Our protocol uses protoplasts, skipping transgenic plants to save months! Great step by step protocol @emilieknight.bsky.social! Read more below ⬇️ Thanks to all contributors! #plantscience @johninnescentre.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to host @ismaelgf.bsky.social for 3 months @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Looking forward to continuing our collaboration with @irnasa.bsky.social on transcriptomic responses to water deficit in wheat 💦🍞🌾

#Monogram2025 has finished. It was a fantastic conference with outstanding speakers and great interactions. I am very grateful to the organisers for their hard work!! (Especially Ash!) Looking forward to next year's conference hosted by NIAB. @monogram-uk.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social

Congratulations to Isabel Faci @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fascinating talk on how decoupling environmental signals can induce aerial branching in wheat!

Congratulations to @katielong.bsky.social @johninnescentre.bsky.social winner of the #Monogram2025 ECR excellence award! Fabulous talk on the intricate patterns of gene expression in wheat spikes!

Wonderful talk from @delfidorussen.bsky.social at #Monogram2025 about DNA methylation mutants in wheat. You can read the full MET1-1 mutant characterisation which was just published this week @jxbotany.bsky.social ⬇️

Really enjoying #Monogram2025 so far @ibers.bsky.social Great talk by @chen-ji.bsky.social on her latest work exploring gene expression patterns in wheat grains. So many interesting genes to characterise!

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

Looking forward to #Monogram2025 next week. Check out the programme below ⬇️ @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Starting to build our lab's interactions on bluesky. It appears we've got a positional effect from the summer lab photo 😂... @delfidorussen.bsky.social @chen-ji.bsky.social @beccatesta.bsky.social ... but not for alumnus @glombikm.bsky.social (top left of photo) @johninnescentre.bsky.social

Come hear Chen Ji talk about her fascinating results from spatial transcriptomics in wheat. There will be lots of beautiful images of gene expression patterns! 🗓️18-19 June in Norwich, UK Registration is open ⬇️

Congratulations @delfidorussen.bsky.social on being awarded the #IWGSC -Feuillet Early Career award to present your work on #wheat homoeolog transcriptional compensation at PAG.🌾 #ProudPI.