Our latest UofHertfordshire/UoCopenhagen/JIC paper is on BioRxiv! Following on from our Fell et al. paper, we show light leaf spot resistance occurs 4-8 days post inoculation, restricting hyphae branching/colonisation, and profile previous candidate gene expression. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Fabulous to see this work as an editor’s choice!!

Our new preprint is up!!! A statistical approach for comparing time series data. For us this is key when looking at gene expression across time in models and crops but it has many other applications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Very happy to announce that our paper on larval antibiosis in Brassica napus is now available!!! Unfortunately, a screen of diverse lines did not find reproducible resistance but this may change the way we look at larval studies in the field. scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excellent undergraduate opportunity via the RSB sponsored by Defra for this summer! Come join team flea beetle for 10 weeks to work on larval feeding behaviour and transcriptomics. my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...

Ending the year on a high point. 3 new PhDs made - they have all been amazing students and I am so proud! Gurpinder even managed to release his lovely story about the effect of cold on SOC1 and gene regulatory networks :) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Friday flea beetle husbandry :) It’s been a busy week with a conference, time course experiments and finally mucking in with the team to sort the colonies :)

Great to see this work out in press and the data released for access. A great collaboration from the Brassica BRAVO team @johninnescentre.bsky.social and @rothamsted.bsky.social and JIC informatics. Well done Hugh, Laura and team! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Shadow of the enemy for @samtmugford.bsky.social So many aphids on my weeping silver birch right now!

Lovely to have a visit @johninnescentre.bsky.social from the Institute and of Vegetables and Flowers, CAAS, Beijing. Lots of chat about #entomology and #brassica diversity.

Come join us for a Royal Society of Biology Plant Health Undergraduate Studentship this summer! my.rsb.org.uk/services.php...

Rex the @johninnescentre.bsky.social science cat with sunny morning scientific musings by the pond

Lovely to see this update on bioRxiv. So much work by Sana and the team! Was lovely for Ruth to experience Lyon and add our curve registration methodology :) doi.org/10.1101/2024...

When you receive a suitable #brassica based bag. We have decided t-shirts may be required 😂

Amazing to see PTI and ETI suppression taking place from same Aphid. I'm imagining the evolutionary arms race that led to this 😍 Congrats to Team Hogenhout. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Who’s coming to Brassica 2025? It would be great to see you there! www.brassica2025.de

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.

#johninnes #PAG32

Hello San Diego!!! Happy to be attending PAG

Today latest #broccoli instalment. The glasshouse s a good place to be :)

Love this memory of crossing with my girl. She made a pretty good RA. A few years and she will be part of the summer casual staff team. Be the bee!!!!

Come and join an amazing community of researchers in plant-insect interactions, Group leader position at the John Innes Centre #plants #insects www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/pl...

No better place on a cold day that a warm lit glasshouse :)

Oooooh, I just love this bit. A tiny romanesco!!!!

Lovely to have a networking visit from the Xianghu Laboratory, Hangzhou. A bit chilly in the field!Really hope to visit in the future to talk #OSR

And so begins establishing my network on here after moving across from Twitter. Behold the #Brassica #oilseedrape #OSR and #CSFB #fleabeetle