Don’t miss the latest edition of Phytogen @asps-oz.bsky.social Featuring just a few of the incredible women shaping the future of Australian plant science. It was a joy to guest edit this special issue with @bethloveys.bsky.social & the Phytogen team & a big thanks to all contributors!

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Lovely (as always) to catch up with @bberger-au.bsky.social on a brief visit to sunny Adelaide. Check out the amazing #OzBarley resource open & available to the crop science community 🇦🇺

Even more reasons to work on the OzBarley panel this year with extra trials added for 2025. An amazing resource for the Australian community

Welcoming new Masters student Chuhao to the team @scienceanu.bsky.social. Hao is continuing our exciting work characterising molecular to phenotypic responses to cold plasma seed treatment in wheat for application towards reducing N fertiliser inputs in Australian production 🌾

Great to have a visit from Christine Raines @scienceanu.bsky.social today. Excellent talk highlighting the potential to engineer improvements in photosynthesis & the need for more understanding of effects across multiple environments & seasons

What a treat to open the latest edition of IPK Journal & read about Laura Dixon’s plans for more breakthrough science on crop environmental adaptation with the @tweeticum.bsky.social lab in their new home @leibnizipk.bsky.social

Lab with a view @scienceanu.bsky.social Preparing for our next wheat experiment aiming to dissect abiotic stress response capacity 🌾

Big data + ML = optimised plant breeding strategies, enhanced prediction accuracy & better understanding of GxE. Read more in our recent @cp-trendsplantsci.bsky.social paper 🌱 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important life advice at the pool this morning #divein

Thank you Ute Roessner for your inspiring, inclusive & pragmatic leadership! So excited to see you become the next CEO of the Australian Research Council although we’ll greatly miss having you as a supporter & champion of science and innovation at ANU! @anuagrifood.bsky.social

Our barley queen! Very sad to say farewell to Tammy as she finalises the last of our 2024 #OzBarley samples before she heads back to China. It has been such a joy having her as a member of our team @scienceanu.bsky.social working on improving cereal root & stem architecture!

Happy New Year! Great to have the team back in the lab @scienceanu.bsky.social & ready to go for 2025 continuing our work on building crop resilience to changing climatic conditions & inputs

⚙️ The wheel keeps turning! 🌱 With our 2024 harvest now complete the first plants of 2025 are on their way @scienceanu.bsky.social

Harvesting the final wheat ears of 2024. It’s been a big year with even more planned for 2025 @scienceanu.bsky.social!

Lovely to have a Christmas visit from our Charles Sturt University friends @scienceanu.bsky.social today. Great chance to talk crop abiotic stress phenotyping & more.

Exciting times ahead @scienceanu.bsky.social @anuagrifood.bsky.social 💫

Really excited to be part of the 2025-2026 Superstars of STEM cohort representing @scienceanu.bsky.social @anuagrifood.bsky.social!

Very exciting to see Laura Dixon here & so cool to see @tweeticum.bsky.social now live @leibnizipk.bsky.social!

The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity (@arc-pbtc.bsky.social) has NINE PhD scholarships now open. Each come with integrated placements in government or industry and professional development for future research leaders. plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au/phd-opportun...

Over the past month it has been awesome to host Salvador Carranza from Inifap in Mexico as a visiting scientist @scienceanu.bsky.social. He has been sharing his skills & enthusiasm with us while also getting involved with some of the wheat & barley phenotyping approaches we’re developing 🌱

My first visit to the Research School of Chemistry @scienceanu.bsky.social & they’ve certainly set the bar for science-themed Christmas decorations 🎄 🧬

Roots that grow together stay together… Final round of cereal root assessments for 2024 exploring new potential to enhance our knowledge of what lies below the surface 🌱 @scienceanu.bsky.social

Women in STEM analysing cereal stems @scienceanu.bsky.social It’s all systems go with post harvest processing of #OzBarley samples

🍾 Toasting the ARC #DP25 #DiscoveryProject success of our wonderful @scienceanu.bsky.social #PlantScience colleagues Joanna Melonek, John Rathjen & Kai Chan. Lots more exciting plant science research to come 🌱

Hyper-spectral phenotyping provides new insights into durum wheat yield development under drought. Nice work from Rosa Mérida-Garcia who spent some of her PhD studies working with us at NIAB in the U.K. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Great to see our wheat MAGIC flowering time paper out now @theorapplgenet.bsky.social! Dissecting the genetic control of flowering drawing on the expertise of an amazing team over six field seasons. Big shout out to NIAB MSc student Laure Fourquet & James Cockram. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2024 has been a year of new beginnings so it seems fitting that my first @bsky.app post is to celebrate the wonderful team that have joined me to start our new crop science adventures @scienceanu.bsky.social. Excited for what’s to come!