Visit the International Barley Hub field plots next week.🌾 Our 10am tours last around an hour, with plenty of time afterward to explore additional research areas, learn about ongoing projects, and speak with our staff and students about their expertise and experiences.

Great to see Barley iTAG used in the classroom! Want to take part? barleyhub.org/teaching-edu...

Our new research uncovered how barley regulates key protective features that help it cope with environmental stress. The findings could support the development of more resilient crops for a changing climate. @hutton.ac.uk #DundeeUni #PlantScience www.hutton.ac.uk/research-fro...

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Conserved modules, novel forms: Investigating morphological innovation in the grasses 🔊 Katie Jeal, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. ⏰ Wednesday, 24th June 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c69acd...

Highland Show Highlights! #RHS2026 @hutton.ac.uk @rowettinstitute.bsky.social

See you at the Royal Highland Show this week! @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk @rowettinstitute.bsky.social

We’re excited to share out wheat spatial transcriptomics paper, published today in Science Advances - url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/zvF1C0YKzm...

Genome wide identification, structural characterization, expression analysis, and regulatory network inferring of BAG gene family in barley www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An Effective YOLOv11 Grain Detection Model Trained on Intact Barley Spikes Reveals a QTL Containing a Pivotal Regulator of Lateral Spikelet Formation www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/15...

Cereals Event 2026 Day 2 is live! #cereals2026

Please visit us at Stand 1032 to see our display plots focussing on our latest research involving soil health, capturing lost diversity, sustainable barley production & driving the circular bioeconony. We also have Annandale distillery on hand with delicious drams produced sustainably! #cereals2026

Van packed and heading to Cereals Event. See you at Stand 1032 on Wednesday and Thursday! Diddly Squat here we come! #cereals2026

Genetic dissection of root traits in barley identifies major QTLs and domestication signature link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Defined rhizosphere bacterial communities induce systemic resistance to barley powdery mildew without major shifts in native rhizosphere bacterial community www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

A Case Study: Benchtop Malting System for Early-Generation Malt Quality Screening www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stephan Weise: How to Keep Track of 2 million crop collections www.botany.one/stephan-weis... As crop collections become increasingly digital, EURISCO shows why conserving plant diversity means managing not only seeds, but also the data that give them meaning. #Botany #PlantScience

Over 5000 barley plots to explore!

BODYGUARD contributes to cuticular specialisations in cereals 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by McAllister et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

Visit the International Barley Hub field plots! 🌾 Our 10am tours last around an hour, with plenty of time afterward to explore additional research areas, learn about ongoing projects, and speak with our staff and students about their expertise and experiences.

It's not too late to register for this afternoon's seminar. Details below......

‼️IBH Seminar Announcement‼️ 📜 Developing Drought-Tolerant Wheat Varieties through Conventional Breeding: Screening Trait Evaluation, & Selection Strategies 🔊 Javaria Ashiq , Wheat Research Institute, AARI, Faisalabad, Pakistan. ⏰ Wednesday, 27th May 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT 🔗https://shorturl.at/65VXl

3 weeks to go until Cereals 2026 From next-generation barley breeding and climate-resilient crops to circular nutrient systems and sustainable aviation fuels, please visit us! @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk 📍 Diddly Squat Farm, Chipping Norton | Stand 1032 📅 10-11 June #cereals2026

It was a pleasure to welcome Marta Peirats-Llobet from La Trobe University today and hear her work developing the Barley 4D Gene Atlas, a four-dimensional spatial gene expression atlas of barley grain development and germination. barley-4d.latrobe.edu.au

Pre-anthesis light signalling of sheathed developing barley inflorescences defines floral fate academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Unlocking salt tolerance from Fertile Crescent wild barley: evolutionary and physiological mechanisms in introgressed lines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Overexpression of barley heat stress transcription factor HvHsfA6a provides thermotolerance by modulating transcriptome and metabolome onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations to Shanzay Qamar winning the Best Poster Presentation at the Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference. An awesome achievement with over 200 posters submitted! Shanzay is expanding the range of gene editing tools to build #betterbarley. Thanks CIBD for a great conference! #wdsc2026

Barley domestication was incremental, polycentric, and shaped by repeated interaction between humans and multiple wild barley populations over a wide region. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

See our latest paper: Deciphering bacterial community composition and function at critical interfaces of plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi-bacterial holobiont rdcu.be/fifM3

Our latest newsletter is out today! Packed full of career development opportunities, news and events from the whole #plantscience and #farming community 🕊️ We pause for a moment to remember and celebrate the lives of Philippa Borrill and Ian Cooper 🕊️ Read it in full: buff.ly/aPB0Sk5

Looking forward to welcoming delegates to the @intbarleyhub.bsky.social and @hutton.ac.uk later today. Should be a great week engaging with distilled spirit science and innovation!

Pan-genome analysis reveals hidden diversity and selection signatures of auxin response factors (ARFs) associated with breeding in barley link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Global perspective on the genetic architecture of susceptibility to spot form net blotch in barley link.springer.com/article/10.1...

See this opportunity for a post-doctoral position with our partners at IPK www.ipk-gatersleben.de/karriere/ste...

Identification of novel QTL for tiller angle on chromosome 2H and 5H in barley link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can barley play a role in future bio-based battery systems? Conversion of husk waste into silica (SiO₂ electrolyte silicon) (Si silicon battery anode) is promising. Its impact depends on technological improvements, converting waste into usable materials efficiently. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us for the next webinar in our PlantEd series 🌱 📅 Tuesday 16 June 🕑️ 2PM BST | 3PM CEST | 9AM EDT 🧬 Feat. talks from: Claudia Payacán-Ortiz (NeoCrop Technologies) Jillis Grubben (Wageningen University) Register for free 👉️ buff.ly/KPRkod9 #plantscience

Come and see what we’re doing at the Royal Highland Show 📍 Ingliston, Edinburgh 📅 18–21 June Say hello and find out more about our work! 🌱 www.royalhighlandshow.org #RHS26 @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

It's not too late to register for tomorrow's seminar!

Golden Promise-rapid, a fast-cycling and transformable barley genotype academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

A four-dimensional spatial transcriptome atlas of barley caryopsis development and germination academic.oup.com/plcell/advan...

BarleyMicroBreed PhD course "Assembly and functioning of crop microbiomes" October 2026 🌾 Role of microbiomes in crop productivity and health 🌾 Experimental design and sampling 🌾 Amplicon, shotgun & phage seq 🌾 Bioinformatics & multi-omics 🌾 Stable isotope probing agro.au.dk/en/education...

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Proteomic insights into water-use efficiency and malt quality trade-offs to inform barley breeding strategies 🔊 Michelle Colgrave & Clare O'Lone, ARC CIPPS ⏰ Wednesday, 29th April 2026, 09:00 - 10:30 GMT 🔗 shorturl.at/rfcqf

Oregon Wolfe Barleys are so diverse! To find out what controls this wide range of phenotypes, click the link below..... #barleyitag barleyhub.org/teaching-edu...

If you missed Sharon Zytnska (University of Manchester) at the IBH seminar, you can now catch the recording 🌱 Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence Watch here: youtu.be/q4bPD_oo6-s?... @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

We’ll be heading to Cereals on 10–11 June at Diddly Squat Farm. The UK’s flagship arable event driving knowledge and innovation 🚜🌱 Come and say hi if you’re there — see you in the field! www.thecerealsevent.co.uk #cereals2026 @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

💡 Don't forget nominations are open for 3 new awards celebrating excellence, leadership & impact across applied biology 🌟 🌱 Plant Sciences 🌎 Sustainable Futures 💚 Accessibility in Applied Biology Submit your nomination by 31st May 👉 aab.org.uk/aab-presidents-medal/ #plantscience #sustainableag

ICYMI, last week's IBH seminar from @szytynska.bsky.social is now on our YouTube channel. Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence youtu.be/q4bPD_oo6-s?...

Barley was a key early crop in the origins of agriculture, but its ecological range and cultural importance declined over time as farming systems evolved and wheat became more abundant. phys.org/news/2026-02...

Identification and molecular mapping of a new Hessian fly resistance gene in the spring barley variety ‘Golf’ link.springer.com/article/10.1...