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

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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...

🌾 Support our students and the future of crops! 🌍 Join us at “The Future of Barley: Resilience Against Climate Change” 📍 CANVAS, Dundee 📅 28 April 👉 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future... @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

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‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Induced resistance in barley: how rhizobacteria, genotype, and environment shape aphid defence 🔊Sharon Zytynska, University of Manchester, UK ⏰ Wednesday, 15th April 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10a377...

Calcium sensors in barley: genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the CBL gene family www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Multi-locus genome-wide association mapping reveals loci underlying malt quality traits in heterogeneous Ethiopian Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) germplasm www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A vibrant future for barley: highlights from the 2026 International Barley Hub Stakeholder Meeting #betterbarley www.hutton.ac.uk/blog/a-vibra...

Great to welcome David Moody & Tress Walmsley from Intergrain Australia to the IBH last week. Climate change is a global challenge for barley production. Our work, developing tools & germplasm, improves the resilience & sustainability of barley and mitigates impacts of climate & environmental change

It was a pleasure to host Valentina D'Alessandro from University of Milan, Giada Callizaya Terceros, Laura Rossini Lab over the last 2 months. Valentina was optimising BEST-CROP project screening protocols and identifying potential new targets for further investigation. #betterbarley

A few memories from @monogram-uk.bsky.social 2026! Thanks again to @aabiologists.bsky.social. See you all at #monogram27

The SD1 locus affects primary seed dormancy in winter malting barley acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Join us tomorrow at The Edinburgh Science Festival and take a journey exploring DNA through lots of fun activities! #barley #daffodil #DNA

Identification and genomic location of resistance to bacterial leaf streak of barley acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Integrated Approaches in Barley Functional Genomics: Omics Resources, Transformation Tools, and Seed Vigor 🔊 Lingzhen Ye and Mengdi Li, Zhejiang University, China ⏰ Wednesday, 1st April 2026, 10:30 - 12:00 GMT 🔗 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e9c9b2...

OzBarley: A genetic and phenotypic data resource capturing the Australian barley breeding history www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read related work by Sarah McKim & colleagues @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk on how the HvGDSL1 GDSL-motif Esterase/Lipase not only affects wax & #cutin deposition, but also controls hull-caryopsis attachment in #barley 📖 doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... #PlantScience #Monogram2026

Congratulations to Baritone PhD student Zoe Marshall winning @newphyt.bsky.social sponsored @monogram-uk.bsky.social poster prize! #monogram26

Great representation @monogram-uk.bsky.social 2026 from Sarah McKim, @mirischreiber.bsky.social and David Ashworth @hutton.ac.uk #monogram26 #dundeeuni

#Monogram2026 Session 9 - Decoding Monocots: Genetics for Impact 🧬 Emily Carr @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 💧 David Ashworth @hutton.ac.uk 🌾 Denis-Florentin Sfrangeau @niab-uk.bsky.social

🌱 We’re excited to launch the BBSRC-funded UK Plant Epigenetics Network (UK-PEN) with our inaugural workshop (free!): “Plant Epigenetics: From Model to Crop Species” 📅 11–12 June 2026 📍 Uni of Dundee (hybrid) We look forward to welcoming you! Feel free to repost to help us reach the community

#Monogram2026 Session 4 - New Frontiers: Unlocking Opportunity Cereal 🌍 Aiswarya Girija @ibers.bsky.social 🧬 Lizo Masters @rbgkew.bsky.social 🍚 Crispus Mbaluto @crispus-mbaluto.bsky.social @essexuni.bsky.social 🌾 Miriam Schreiber @mirischreiber.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

#Monogram2026 Session 6 - From Meristem to Harvest: Building the Plant Big session seeing us through to lunch, featuring not one but two Keynotes! 🕐 Alex Webb @alexwebblab.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social 🌾 Sarah McKim @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

Introgression of wild barley alleles improves seedlings salinity tolerance in the nested association mapping HEB-400 population acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...