The mystery of redundancy between homoeologs continues! Knocking out one homoeolog in wheat doesn't cause the other homoeologs to be upregulated... nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great work led by @delfidorussen.bsky.social with @emilieknight.bsky.social @simmojsimmo.bsky.social

BLOG - Women in wheat event provides training to address gender bias in wheat research This July saw the latest #WomenInWheat event, where 25 early career women researchers attended a JIC training event focused on addressing gender bias in the UK and internationally www.jic.ac.uk/blog/women-i...

Women, Plants, and the Power of a Name Researchers uncover the real women behind botanical names, turning obscure eponyms into powerful stories of recognition and representation. botany.one/2025/07/wome... #Botany #PlantScience 🧪

I'm excited to share our work investigating transcriptional compensation in polyploid wheat 🌾 It was fun to work on this project led by @philippaborrill.bsky.social and myself, with key contributions from @emilieknight.bsky.social and @simmojsimmo.bsky.social The key take-aways, a 🧵

Happy to share that our study of inheritance of homoeolog expression bias in wheat biparental populations is out in @biomedcentral.bsky.social Genome Biology! 🧬 Many thanks to all co-authors and @philippaborrill.bsky.social for great leadership on the project! #PlantScience #Botany rdcu.be/eokf2

Very cool protocol development from Emilie in the Borrill Lab 🧪 👇

For #WorldTapirDay my #linocut Malayan tapirs, adult and baby. 🐡🧪 There are 4 types of tapir; this linocut is of both an adult & baby Malayan tapir. Tapirs always look very dapper, if improbable, in their black and white coat. The adults with their white saddles look like an aardvark crossed with 🧵

I’m very happy to share the published version of our paper on the role of MET1 in wheat 🌾 🧬 It’s been really exciting to discover more about DNA methylation in wheat and it’s huge polyploid genome doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...

My latest article for The Observer 😍🙏

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

It was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at #PAG32 😄🌾🧬

Some cool research I was very happy to be a part of 🌱👇

1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social

Paleoart is better with plants 💚🌱

📢A new blog published! Using drawing as a tool for learning ✏️🌱🌵 Read more here⏩ 1url.cz/W1IU7 As a person who draws almost every day, I was surprised to discover just how effective drawing can be as a tool for learning about anything, really #GoBelowground #CloPla #rhizome #drawing #bud #clonality

A major conservation win! I won't try to conceal my excitement. This Hawaiian crow was BROUGHT BACK FROM EXTINCTION. Well done to everyone involved. Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #crow #crows #corvids #conservation 🌎

Very happy to share that our latest publication on the evolution of C4 photosynthesis is out now. It was such a pleasure working with the amazing Joseph Swift, Joe Ecker, @tinaschreier.bsky.social, and @jmhibberd.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...