Last week we said goodbye to Evie Meale who has spent the last 10 months with us on an internship from York University. Thanks for all the help! 🫘🧬

Tim is in Canada this week giving an OECD sponsored keynote lecture at the Organic P Workshop in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island op2026.com

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.

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

See our latest paper: "Intercropping alters rhizosphere chemistry but not early root distribution in a low phosphorus field" rdcu.be/fpitD

See our latest paper: "Soil DNA-Phosphorus: Method Optimisation and Application Across UK Soils" jams.squ.edu.om/home/vol31/i...

See our latest paper! 🌱 Long-term nitrogen and phosphorus amendments reshape arbuscular mycorrhizal regulation of hyphosphere microbial communities and functions in grassland soils 🔗 Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SoilScience #Mycorrhiza #Microbiome #Grasslands

We just had the 53nd EPSO Plant Science Seminar on “AI in Plant Science”. Access to the recording is available to all EPSO personal and organisational members on the EPSO website. 🌱 @epsoeurope.bsky.social

The Hutton COUSIN team have spent the week in Scandicci, Florence, Italy at the 2026 COUSIN AGM. We scored crop wild relatives in a very hot fields and got involved in a range of interactive workshops to push forward the COUSIN objectives 🌱 @gwenkirschner.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

Tim gave an invited talk at the International Wheat Congress in Bologna, Italy. The meeting was attended by 750 wheat researchers and industry partners from across the world. 🌍🌾

We were involved in the BARIToNE consortium meeting this week, catching with all the excellent research being done in this DTP.

Thanks to @plantecohutton.bsky.social for organising the Root 2 Res 2026 Shovelomics Faba Bean Trail. A great team effort with exciting results to come! root2res.eu #root2res

We wrapped up the Root2Res Faba Bean Shovelomics harvest in record time 🫘🌱 176 genotypes harvested, processed, and analysed in just 2.5 days. @hutton.ac.uk root2res.eu

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

🌾📊 Please help with this student survey on the barriers to adoption of sustainable agricultural practices- docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @hutton.ac.uk

🌱 See our latest paper: Mitigating CO2 and N2O emissions in salt-affected agroecosystems through fertilization and irrigation optimization: A meta-analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

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

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

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

Thrilled to present our latest Root2Res research on a novel methodology for simultaneous sampling of rhizosphere microbiota and root exudates from soil-grown plants @rootscientists.bsky.social @plantecohutton.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @bulgarelli-d.bsky.social

🌾 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

We just had the 52nd EPSO Plant Science Seminar on “Gene Editing Public Consultations in Europe”. Access to the recording is available to all EPSO personal and organisational members on the EPSO website epsoeurope.bsky.social epsoweb.org

Trials planted a couple of weeks ago are starting to emerge, here are some Faba bean plants emerging in the @Root2Res trials 🌱🫘

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

We hosted a visit of Intergrain Ltd a breeding company from Australia that specialises in wheat and barley breeding for Australian conditions.

Tim spent a few days with the BarleyMicroBreed team at their AGM as scientific advisor. It was great to learn about all the interesting work they are doing.🌾

Congratulations to Zoe who won the Gold Medal for her poster on her research into the tolerance of Bere barley to Mn deficiency at the STEM for Britain event at Westminster! 🎉🎖️

We just had the 51st EPSO Plant Science Seminar on “Forest Health”. Access to the recording is available to all EPSO personal and organisational members on the EPSO website 🌲 @epsoeurope.bsky.social epsoweb.org

The @Root2Res Faba Bean trial is planted, looking forward to validating the shovelomics results in the second field season. 🫘🚜

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 When the Dance Goes Off Beat: Barley Mutants Expose Meiotic Recombination Pathways 🔊 Isabelle Colas ⏰ Wednesday, 18 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5384bc...

We hosted a visit from Charlie Rohwer (University of Minnesota, USA) last week. Charlie is involved in breeding for disease resistance in horticultural crops including hops and a range of vegetables.

Students from the group have been involved in the annual Hutton Postgraduate event this week in Birnam. It was great to see the latest results from a broad range of projects.

Last week we all attended the Ecological Sciences Gathering in Aberdeen to catch up on the latest of what going on in the department

We hosted a visit to the institute of Darren Wells from University of Nottingham. He came to speak at the Barley Away Days, see our new facilities and discuss root research, specifically Lia’s project.

Tim visited IPK in Germany to give a Gatersleben Lecture and meet colleagues old and new. Lots of plans to work together in the future.

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 📜 Precision Plant Editing: From Barley to Amaranth with CRISPR in Hand 🔊 Götz Hensel @hhu.de ⏰ Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:30 GMT events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d460dd...

Registration is now open for the Organic P workshop in Prince Edward Island, Canada in July 2026. Register at this link and hope to see you there! op2026.com/registration/

Functional analysis of barley HvRTH3 reveals its role in root hair patterning with no detectable impact on drought response www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Only a week to go until Barley Away Days 2026! A 2- day workshop centred around the barley research at JHI / IBH to a combined internal and invited external audience. @hutton.ac.uk @scotchwhiskyswa.bsky.social @novogene-europe.bsky.social @thermofishersci.bsky.social LGC Biosearch Diageo SSCR

It was great to welcome @szytynska.bsky.social from @manchester.ac.uk to the @hutton.ac.uk and @plantecohutton.bsky.social. We look forward to working together to focus on plant-microbe-insect interactions to ensure sustainable barley production.

We hosted a visit from Sharon Zytynska @szytynska.bsky.social (University of Manchester) who presented a seminar and discussed her research on plant, microbe, aphid interactions in barley to people in the group.

Excited to be looking at roots of wild barleys @plantecohutton.bsky.social

We hosted the ISRR Mini Symposium last week with 14 talks on roots from a whole range of research fields. If you want to catch up on this the link to the recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQqD... @rootscientists.bsky.social

Gwen is going with a group from Hutton to UAE next week to make connections with research organisations in the Emirates. @hutton.ac.uk @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the ISRR Mini Symposium next week — a day of online presentations focused on roots 🌱 #ISRR @rootscientists.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

Take a look at some articles in various places that have been picked up about our Bere barley participatory network 🌾 1. scottishbusinessnews.net/call-to-join... 2. www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/ne... 3. www.agcc.co.uk/news-article... #berebarley @hutton.ac.uk

Registration for the Organic P Workshop in Charlottetown, Canada is now open Home - OP2026. Hope to see you there. op2026.com

Have a great Christmas break and see you in 2026!

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