I chose a good day to check for seed in our Fraxinus collection at @rbgkew.bsky.social 🌞🌳🍁 Looks like a bumper crop for most species - these are valuable material for @forest-protection.bsky.social funded research to tackle threats to ash trees 🌿 #Fraxinus #ashtrees #treehealth

Willow and birch trees already looking very yellow last week in Yorkshire 😬🍁🍂

A few of the interesting trees we saw this week while collecting data for our NERC funded project on the evolutionary response to ash dieback disease 🌳🌿 I never fail to be amazed at all the weird ways trees grow 😀 #Fraxinus #ashtree #ashdieback

New @rbgkew.bsky.social research project on ash dieback disease as part of @forest-protection.bsky.social 😀 with @rbuggs.bsky.social and @danielwood1992.bsky.social We’ve been busy collecting samples this week for genomic analysis 🌳🧬👩‍💻

Preprint now out for our Fraxinus excelsior pangenome 🌿🧬🌿🧬🌿🧬🌿 - huge thanks to @danielwood1992.bsky.social for working so hard on this!

Still time to apply for a six-month internship with @forest-protection.bsky.social - applications for positions based at Kew close on 22nd July!

Excited to be contributing to this new project looking at the combined threat to ash trees from ash dieback and the emerald ash borer 🌿🍄🪲🌳

📢 NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS 📢 🌳 Earlier this year, the #CentreforForestProtection was awarded £4m in #Defra funding to support 16 new research projects in 2025/26. 🔬 Over the coming weeks, we will be showcasing each project across our social media channels, so keep an eye out to learn more!

Six-month internships available as part of the Centre for Forest Protection - including two with @danielwood1992.bsky.social working on ash trees! 🌳🧬

BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍 Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience #SciNews

Some good news for ash trees 🌳🌿 congratulations @carey-metheringham.bsky.social on all your amazing work for this study, and to our other co-authors, especially Richard Nichols and Richard Buggs at QMUL and Kew! I am very happy to have been able to play a small part ☺️

NERC-funded internships for undergraduate and integrated Master’s students - opening for applications soon!

We have a new vacancy in my Section for a Kew Research Fellow in Plant & Fungal Science. This is an opp for an early-career researcher to develop their science portfolio & skills in a vibrant research environment, working @KewScience please RP careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-... Deadline 20/04/2025🧵

A great series of webinars coming up on tree health and adaptation from the Centre for Forest Protection, including two by my group on ash genomics and predicting biotic risks to non-native trees 🧬🌿🐛🌳👇

PDRA opportunity at Kew - chance to work on an exciting new project with a wonderful boss! (speaking from first hand experience ☺️)

This sounds very exciting! My group is investigating the role of SVs in adaptation of ash trees to the ash dieback epidemic in our @ukri.org and @forest-protection.bsky.social funded projects so looking forward to reading this soon 😀

More bad news for beech trees 😕

A new preprint from our team 🌳🍂🍄‍🟫 #ashdieback #fraxinus

Congratulations to former and current Kew colleagues, including @metallophyte.bsky.social and @danielwood1992.bsky.social and especially first author Sarah Coates (whose MSc project I had the great pleasure to supervise some years back 🙂), on their new paper in PNAS!

Congratulations @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social on your new paper! Great to see this exciting research from a former member of our Plant Health & Adaptation Team at Kew ☺️

Gabriele's paper is out in PNAS! He found a large number of genes with repeated sweeps in multiple plant species. Most interestingly: they tend to be peripheral in co-expression networks (low pleiotropy), consistent with mig-sel theory!! @gabnocgenomics.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...