Tim was elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organisation). Join us to help the plant science voice be heard in Europe. 🌾🌿 epsoweb.org @epsoeurope.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social

Plans for Barley Away Days 2026 are coming together nicely. We look forward to seeing friends, colleagues & collaborators, in Dunkeld & Birnam Arts Centre 18th to 19th February 2026< More details to follow in January #barleyad26

Planning is underway for IBGS15 in Dundee! Register your interest below to receive updates as we get closer to the event. 139493613.hs-sites-eu1.com/ibgs15 #ibgs15 #welcometodundee #betterbarley

Many thanks to all our 2025 IBH Seminar speakers and contributors. See you all in 2026 for more innovative and inspiring #betterbarley research. Recordings of all our seminars are available here: barleyhub.org/whats-on/pas...

Join us for the ISRR Mini Symposium in January get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio... Also don’t forget to become a ISRR member! @RootScientists #ISRR

Many congratulations to Dr. Jessie Shadbolt! Her PhD work involved characterisation of the HMA gene family in Barley. Good luck and we look forward to seeing you again soon!

Many thanks to all our 2025 IBH Seminar speakers and contributors. See you all in 2026 for more innovative and inspiring #betterbarley research. Recordings of all our seminars are available here: barleyhub.org/whats-on/pas...

Using CaPNPs may offer a promising strategy to boost drought tolerance in barley and other cereal crops — improving growth, reducing oxidative stress and supporting survival in harsh conditions. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

More Oregon Wolfe Barley growing for #BarleyiTAG project! Well done to Webster's High School in Kirriemuir. DNA extraction and PCRs are underway. barleyhub.org/teaching-edu...

Dr Isabelle Colas highlights barley’s global importance and the key role of the International Barley Hub in advancing research. Her work helps keep IBH a vibrant, collaborative space where scientists, industry and stakeholders join forces to support barley’s future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Iik...

How Do Regulations Shape the Future of Gene-Edited Crops? The next BEST CROP talk brings leaders from science, policy, breeding & industry together to explore how innovation + regulation are steering gene-edited crops under the evolving EU NGT framework. 🔗 www.eventbrite.it/e/best-crop-...

48th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18 December 2025 at 15.00 CET discussing Roots for future crops: Horizon Europe Projects on Roots with Kati Retzer, Christopher Barnes, Charlotte White and Rafaella Balestrini. bit.ly/4pHuNkl. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU

Kelly Houston, Barley Geneticist and Head of Capacity Building at the International Barley Hub (IBH), shares how the IBH supports the next generation of barley research & remains a thriving, collaborative environment for innovation, growth, and education. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1I...

Dr Sarah McKim, Deputy Director of the International Barley Hub (IBH) and Head Developmental Biologist at the James Hutton Institute, shares an overview of IBH’s mission and her role within it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz_...

New work form our lab shows that loss of function of HvST1 — a grass-specific E3 ubiquitin ligase — increases chromosome recombination up to ~2.5-fold by boosting distal synapsis and crossover formation. #meiosis #betterbarley nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Registration is now open for MONOGRAM 2026! 🌾 📝 Submit your abstract by 23rd January 🐦 Early-bird registration closes 2nd February Register now 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo @monogram-uk.bsky.social #plantscience

Learn a bit more about the work we are doing under the EU/BBSRC funded BEST-CROP project at our regular webinars. Next even on the 16th December more info here www.eventbrite.it/e/1975055672...

The International Barley Hub is an initiative seeking to create a platform for the translation of barley research into economic, social, environmental and commercial impacts for the breeding, farming, malting, brewing, feed, food, health and related industries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3j1...

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Barley’s tolerance to low-phosphorus soils may come down to one regulator: HvSPX4. Lower expression → better P uptake → stronger growth. A promising target for developing low-input crop varieties. academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

See opportunities to join us as a PhD student: @hutton.ac.uk 🌾

2. Mylnefield Trust Scholars: Biofortification of cereal crops for resilience www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

3. Mylnefield Trust Scholars: Harnessing heritage genetics to improve adaptation to micronutrient deficiency in barley www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We enjoyed a successful BARIToNE Consortium Meeting last week. Thanks to everyone who took part, especially the students who organised and ran the day. More information on our Barley industrial training network and current projects can be found here: baritone.hutton.ac.uk

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Valentyna Klymiuk, College of Agriculture & Bioresources Uni of Saskatchewan 📜 Wheat Pre-Breeding: Showcasing Opportunities for Barley Improvement ⏰ Thursday 27th November 2025 14:00 BST 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Amazing to see Barley iTAG experiment in action! Well done to @cheamhigh.bsky.social and their STEM team. Oregon Wolfe Barley germinating well, DNA extraction and PCR to follow. #barleyitag #STEM barleyhub.org/teaching-edu...

Tim George @plantecohutton.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk is our keynote for Session 2: The Rhizosphere and Microbiome 🌱🦠 🌾 Root soil interactions for improved resource acquisition and sustainability 🌾

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‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals How Sucrose Transport Shapes Wheat Grain Development 🔊 Chen Ji @johninnescentre.bsky.social ⏰ Thursday 13th November 2025 14:00 GMT 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Barley nuclear cap-binding complex subunits, HvCBP20 and HvCBP80, play distinct roles in drought adaptation at reproductive phase of development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out First Release in @science.org Exploring how MKK3 variation affects the balance between dormancy and preharvest sprouting in barley: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #plantscience

A team led by the Carlsberg Research Laboratory and involving the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has now identified how different versions of the MKK3 gene affect seed dormancy and sprouting risk in barley. ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/3v3byfmt ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/32zzemex (Engl.) ➡️PM: tinyurl.com/mts3kukd (German)

Postdomestication selection of MKK3 shaped seed dormancy and end-use traits in barley www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference (WDSC) 2026 Abstract Submission Deadline *EXTENDED* for : Midday (UK time) Monday 10th November 2025 (originally Monday 3rd November 2025) wdsc2026.com/abstract-sub...

Join our fantastic line up of speakers: @ecarmosilva.bsky.social @alexwebblab.bsky.social @jiorgoskourelis.bsky.social @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @niab-uk.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social & more! Submit your abstract by 23rd Jan to present at Monogram 2026!

📆 Save the Date... 🌾 Monogram 2026 🌾 23rd – 26th March📍Cambridge, UK 🌱 Connect, collaborate and shape the future of sustainable crop innovation Abstract submission now open! 👉 cvent.me/MM0bPo #plantscience

Planning is underway for IBGS15 in Dundee! Register your interest below to receive updates as we get closer to the event. 139493613.hs-sites-eu1.com/ibgs15 #ibgs15 #welcometodundee #betterbarley

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Prof. Phil Brewer @latrobeuni.bsky.social 📜 Lateral Branching Oxidoreductase acts in a strigolactone biosynthesis sub-pathway to inhibit barley tillering ⏰ Thursday 30th October 9am (GMT) 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

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‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Klaus Pillen, Martin-Luther-University Halle, Germany @unihalle.bsky.social 📜 Exploring Wild Barley Alleles to Improve Stress Tolerance in Elite Barley ⏰ Thursday, October 2, 2025 14:00 BST 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Barley mutants galore...!🍺 New article alert: Korek at al. report a #Strigolactone receptor mutant affecting stress resilience in #barley ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/pcp/... Want to find out more about barley mutants? See #IBMW26 workshop details & registration link below.... 🔗 ibmw26.wordpress.com

Registration to the 4th International Barley Mutant 🧬Workshop #IBMW26 has opened. More info ibmw26.wordpress.com

Looking back several thousand years into plant domestication (and therewith human) history, based on DNA sequence information. This is one of those science stories that are even fun to read (if you are a #barley nerd, maybe). Congratulations to everyone involved in that exciting project!

⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture! World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics 📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist! More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj

A research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social has revealed that modern barley has a “mosaic origin”, meaning it stems from several wild populations across the Fertile Crescent. The findings were published in @nature.com. ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/ytzyn4re ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/5e2v7cp5

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Thanks to Madelaine Bartlett from Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge Uni, @slcuplants.bsky.social for a fascinating and thought provoking presentation today. Find out more about Madeline's work using grass diversity to dissect mechanisms of angiosperm evolution here: bartlettlab.org

IBH Seminar Announcement‼️ ⏰ Thursday 18th September 2025, 11am BST 🔊 Anna Backhaus, Head of Resources Genetics and Reproduction’ in the Genebank Department, IPK Germany 📜 Leveraging genomic resources in barley pre-breeding 🔌https://hutton.webex.com/weblink/register/rd7c1bbb5c8955671403ce3f3802bdeb1

Assessment of genomic prediction capabilities of transcriptome data in a barley multi-parent RIL population link.springer.com/article/10.1...