🎉 Dr Gwendolyn Kirschner, a researcher at the Hutton & International Barley Hub, has won a prestigious postdoctoral prize from the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA) for her work on the control of root angle in #barley 🌾 More: ow.ly/tAjI50WIVzw

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 Cristina McBride 🌿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Lia & Gwen had a great time at the annual Gatsby Network meeting at Oxford last week. Excellent to network & discuss projects with some of the brightest in the field, providing valuable new perspectives & ideas. It was also great to introduce Gwen to the Gatsby network & members!

Molly and Susan have been involved in some site visit and sampling trips to the borders for the Diagman project, funded by Diageo to look at impacts of green manure on soil health indicators

George has had his first paper published Journal of Plant Breeding and Crop Science. Well done George! academicjournals.org/journal/JPBCS/…

Some of us attended the 46thMacaulay Lecture in Edinburgh, where were heard from Kate Raworth about doughnut economics. youtu.be/gnyBgXHmnt8?si…

‼️ IBH Seminar Announcement ‼️ 🔊 Prof. Phil Brewer La Trobe University 📜 Lateral Branching Oxidoreductase acts in a strigolactone biosynthesis sub-pathway to inhibit barley tillering ⏰ Thursday 30th October 9am (GMT) 🔌 hutton.webex.com/weblink/regist…

Tim spoke about Science and Innovation at the NFU Scotland Autumn Meeting in Edinburgh last week week.

Members of the team have been out for our biannual sampling of the Grieves House long-term tillage trials 🚜🌱.

Planning is underway for IBGS15 in Dundee! Register your interest below to receive updates as we get closer to the event. 139493613.hs-sites-eu1.com/ibgs15 #ibgs15 #welcometodundee #betterbarley

Reporting Period 2 report for Root2Res is complete and submitted, thanks to all those that contributed to getting this document together, see you in Ireland next week!

We just had a great week at the Root2Res in Ireland visiting Teagasc new facilities in Johnstown Castle. Lots of new ideas to take forward in the project.

Stefan Pulver and team from St Andrews, visited us today to look at options for looking at beetle behaviour in transparent soil.

Tim presenting at the AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social #Roots2RegenAg conference sharing research examples on #Roots #Rhizosphere #barley PlantEcoHutton

We enjoyed a successful BARIToNE Consortium Meeting last week. Thanks to everyone who took part, especially the students who organised and ran the day. More information on our Barley industrial training network and current projects can be found here: baritone.hutton.ac.uk

Gwen has taken up her new permanent position in the team in the last week or so. Looking forward to building a thriving group with her in the coming months and years.