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

⏳ 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

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!

#rootforaging correlation environment/ field (samlped in Austria @bokuvienna.bsky.social Wien, Morocco, Lebanon #ICARDA) of our 3 subset of 200 #barley varieties per panel #rootangle #roots #rootphenotyping in-field - super exciting @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social

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

On the origin of the late-flowering ppd-H1 allele in barley link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are excited to welcome Ph.D. intern Eugenio Reale from Prof. Sara Simonini’s group (University of Zurich)! He’ll work with us until Jan 2026 on barley transgenic lines. Excited to have him on board! 🌾

Cristina’s latest paper from her PhD is now published: Can Increased Cover Crop Diversity Increase Root-Soil Binding and Reduce Soil Loss During Overland Flow? Well done @crismcbride.bsky.social 🌿 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Foliar disease resistance phenomics of fungal pathogens: image-based approaches for mapping quantitative resistance in cereal germplasm link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great to see applied research from our Baritone PhD CTP Programme www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Effects of using deep learning to predict the geographic origin of barley genebank accessions on genome–environment association studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Network Analysis and Modelling uses machine learning to investigate how genetic variation shapes gene regulation, protein function, and, ultimately, observable plant traits. And we are seeking a PhD student to join a DFG-funded international project. Interested? ➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/5aju8sr3

Our research helps to unlock key traits such as malting quality, drought tolerance, and yield. This translates directly to support barley use in malting and brewing industries. We'll raise a glass to that 🍻 #InternationalBeerDay #BetterBarley #BetterBeer #NoBarleyNobeer #Cheers

Phenotyping the hidden half: combining UAV phenotyping and machine learning to predict barley root traits in the field academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-...

Barley BODYGUARD controls cuticular specialisations regulated by SHINE transcription factors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.28.666421v1

Check out a reproducible protocol for ddRAD-seq + GWAS benchmarked by Najla Ksouri doi.org/10.1186/s130... Tested on peach varieties but should work on other diploid species. Code and documentation at github.com/najlaksouri/... PS read more In Spanish at bioinfoperl.blogspot.com/2025/07/prot...

Beautiful County Antrim… Barley blowing in Ballintoy! 🎥 Niamh McComish

How does heat reshape plant immune responses? Our PhD student Anica Schmauch shows higher temperatures boost ROS bursts in barley and potentially affect Z. passerinii growth, revealing abiotic-biotic cross-talk in disease resistance. 🗓️ Poster P-424 #2025ISMPMI

Out in the paddock sampling the OzBarley population for our new GRDC project to understand novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley. With @bberger-au.bsky.social and a team from the Australian Plant Phenomics Network.

The 2025 Best Paper Award of @plantsciencedbg.bsky.social goes to Sara, Ling and Shenyu for the elucidation of the gramine synthesis in #barley, published in @science.org last year. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Congratulations! 🥳

A successful Plot Walk Day at Balruddery Farm yesterday despite the variable Scottish summer weather ☔️ @intbarleyhub.bsky.social projects and Baritone PhD experiments explained and associated plots demonstrated to interested attendees.

Happy to visit my colleagues from the @barleymicrobreed.bsky.social project :) #barley #droughtresilience #roots plant-soil-microbiome continuum @au.dk

🌾Plotting the Future- Cereal walks are taking place tomorrow! Join us for guided tours of our field plots—showcasing the breadth of research underway as part of the @intbarleyhub.bsky.social programme. 📅 15 July | 🕐Tours at: 1, 2 & 3pm |📍Balruddery Farm Register now🎟️: ow.ly/WXJE50Wp1gA

The potential functions of HvDJ genes in regulating salt tolerance in barley www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

What an amazing week hosting @gwenkirschner.bsky.social, @matesf.bsky.social, @awaisfarooq724.bsky.social and @jamespblloyd.bsky.social amongst other amazing speakers at the ‘Gravitropism and Root Architecture session at the 2025 Society of Experimental Biology at Antwerp! We hope you enjoyed it!

1. barleyhub.org/ibh-seminar-... 2.https://barleyhub.org/ibh-seminar-unlocking-the-hidden-half-opportunities-for-genome-editing-and-machine-learning-to-improve-root-architecture-in-barley/ 3. barleyhub.org/ibh-seminar-...

🌱 Catch up on 4 recent IBH Root-related seminars featuring research from: 1. Dr. Riccardo Fusi – U. of Nottingham 2. Prof. Lee Hickey – U. of Queensland 3. Dr. Rahul Bhosale – U. of Nottingham @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

French farmers doing a great job making a stunning backdrop for @letourfr.bsky.social

A comprehensive and valuable barley genomics resource from Cong Tan and his colleagues #barley #genomics #resource

BarleyOmics: A comprehensive multi-omics database of barley #correspondence #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

Nature research paper: A haplotype-resolved pangenome of the barley wild relative Hordeum bulbosum go.nature.com/45V5IvM

🚨 Our Nature paper is out! We present a chromosome-scale assembly of a wild barley relative, unlocking insights into virus resistance and genome evolution 🌾🧬 My contribution focused on dissecting the BYDV resistance locus. #PlantScience #Genomics #Barley #BYDV #NaturePaper

Wild plants can contribute valuable genes to their domesticated relatives. An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social constructed a pangenome of barley’s closest wild relative, Hordeum bulbosum. Results in @nature.com. ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/45ysmkys ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/msm4sudb

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Thanks to Cockermouth School DNA biology class for their fab badges picked up at @royalsociety.org Summer Science event last week. Updated lab coat looks 😎😎😎👌👌👌

Genome-wide association mapping of loci conferring all-stage and high-temperature adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in a global spring barley collection link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌾 Great news — Gwen Kirschner has taken a permanent position in the @PlantEcoHutton Team as Principal Investigator in Plant-Soil Interactions! It's great to know you're going to be around for longer, Gwen. @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social @gwenkirschner.bsky.social

🌾 Join us to explore over 5,000 field plots showcasing the diverse @intbarleyhub.bsky.social research projects. Discover how we’re harnessing barley’s genetic diversity to tackle various challenges. 📅 15 July | 🕐 Tours at 1pm, 2pm & 3pm |📍Balruddery Farm 🎟️: ow.ly/MAn550WjFrU

One of the coolest exhibits at the @royalsociety.org Summer Science Event! LEGO model of @nanoporetech.com sequencing! Well done @jmhale.bsky.social #partnershipgrants

Exciting day attending my first @royalsociety.org Summer Science Event. Looking forward to meeting all the @DaffDNA budding scientists! #STEM #partnershipgrants #plantscience

2 weeks to go! Join us for a guided tour of over 5000 #barley plots showcasing our innovative, industry-funded student research #BarleyResearch 📅 Tuesday, July 15 | Tours at 1, 2 & 3pm ow.ly/Z35A50WeReO

Crop diversity making its way into football with the design of the new Norwegian ladies team kit :-) www.goal.com/en/lists/wom...

climate resilience? we’re testing it in model plants meanwhile, cassava, millet, sorghum watch the world warm from the sidelines molecular biology needs to leave the model and hit the field doi.org/10.1038/s418... #climatescience #staplecrops #plantscience #plantgenetic

We hosted the 3rd Best Crop project AGM this week. A successful meeting, which included a field trip where delegates visited our plots, demonstrating the wide range of research projects as part of the International Barley Hub programme. #bestcrop #betterbarley

🌾 Plotting the future: A cereal walk Join us for a guided tour of over 5000 #barley plots showcasing innovative research from @IntBarleyHub . 🎓 Featuring industry-funded student research #BarleyResearch 📅 Tuesday, July 15 | Tours at 1, 2 & 3pm More: ow.ly/Z35A50WeReO

IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Riccardo Fusi Nottingham University School of Biosciences 📜 Digging deeper: Identifying root genes to harness stress resilience in barley 📆 Thursday 26th June 2025 14.00 BST 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regi...

Lawrie, Molly, Kirsty, James & Cristina showcased their research at #Rhizosphere6 in Edinburgh last week! Great to see the work of the group on display and connecting with the l rhizosphere community. @hutton.ac.uk

New loci and candidate genes in spring two-rowed barley detected through meta-analysis of a field trial European network link.springer.com/article/10.1...

SHORT AND CROOKED AWN, encoding the epigenetic regulator EMF1, promotes barley awn development academic.oup.com/pcp/article/...