NIAB CEO Mario Caccamo writes about the need for ag innovation across the East of England, & NIAB's role, for new business org Eastern Powerhouse easternpowerhouse.uk/post/the-east-…

The pink pigeon is hailed as a conservation success - but will it stand the test of time? In today's #NatureNews, experts warn the unique bird, from the island of the dodo, could go extinct within a century without more help. Discover what we can do 👇 nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

🧬Don't forget - if your research could benefit from a chromosomal-level reference genome of a specific British and Irish species, fill out our form below: ow.ly/y1um50Jnfrh We'll ultimately sequence all 70,000 species - help us choose which to prioritise first! 🌳🐝🦠🍄

At #cereals22 today - fantastic day! Visit Niab - so much to see and talk about

We have a great PhD opportunity in weed biology & ecology in conservation agriculture based at NIAB with University of Lincoln, UK in partnership with @SyngentaCropsUK. Get in touch to find out more or forward to anyone you think might be interested?

Malling Bella and Malling Centenary - great to see varieties from Niab East Malling at the supermarkets! @mallingfruits

NIAB’s Mario Caccamo & Richard Harrison provided evidence to the Genetic Technology Bill Committee this week bills.parliament.uk/bills/3167 on the impact of advanced breeding technologies in crop production & food security. Watch here parliamentlive.tv/event/index/bd… & parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d2…

Today we awarded Prof Ian MacKay Honorary Fellowship of NIAB. The award recognises his significant contribution to NIAB as former Head of Quantitative Genetics and his work on the MAGIC wheat populations and the contribution it's made to plant breeding. Congratulations Ian! 👏

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Come and work with me! And Kostya Kanyuka, and Lesley (not on Twitter), and Zymoseptoria, and rust, and wheat... niab.com/niab_job_info/…

This was a great collaboration with Lara Urban [email protected] gesgelbacher.bsky.social 🪶 🧬 and others not on Twitter: Cock van Oosterhout, Sam Speak, Tom Birley, Larry Percival-Alwyn, and Jim Groombridge

New #preprint with Saskia Hogenhout et. al.: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We generated chromosome-scale genome assemblies of the English and Indian grain aphids (Sitobion species). Fun detective work shows that hybridisation has been an important force in grain #aphid evolution. 🧵

NEWS: NIAB welcomes return of Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill to UK Parliament on Monday. "It will drive innovation & investment in our agrifood sector," says NIAB CEO Mario Caccamo #cropgenetics #UKparliament #agrifood niab.com/news-views/new…

PhD: Working with Richard Leggett, John Innes Centre, Elsoms Seeds and Science at the Natural History Museum, this #PhD will use innovative #sequencing technology to detect and monitor airborne yellow rust pathogens to protect agricultural #crops. ☁ 🗓 Apply by: 21 November ➡ okt.to/qiCW92

A new project, led by #NIAB and EMBL-EBI means that the genetic resources behind some of the most important plant traits driving agricultural crop production are being made easier to access by researchers with the development of open-source genomic tools➡️ niab.com/news-views/new…

KRILLGUARD is a Natural Environment Research Council funded project that uses genome sequencing of krill and comparisons with historic specimens at the Museum to investigate the impact of climate change on this keystone species. Matthew Clark with British Antarctic Survey 🐧 and Uni of East Anglia nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Very happy to see anna-liisa laine's & my article out in Science Magazine today! We reveal that the more a plant species invests in defense, the less potential it has for growth. All made possible by lots of public data & amazing open science contributions! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Research paper on the genetics of flowering time in the NIAB Elite MAGIC wheat population 🌱 link.springer.com/article/10.100… congratulations to all including Tobias Barber HowellP camilamantello Tally Wright Alison Bentley Niab Science

NEW PAPER: UKCropDiversity-HPC: A collaborative high-performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Read open access paper ➡️ nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…