How do the public perceive gene edited crops? What is the future of legislation, labelling and what will we see in supermarkets? Gulbanu Kaptan discusses her research on all this and the consumer's perceived benefits and risks

WUN heatwaves and drought group Fascinating talk from Gulbanu Kaptan on the conflict between public and expert perception of gene editing in crops, highlighting the importance of transparent and public facing science

Great to join the WUN heatwaves and drought group event with @YoselinBenAlf today to present our work CIMMYT to accelerate wheat breeding, capture demand-drivers for seed Pieter Rutsaert & respond to instability. Read our recent blog on heat impacts in South Asia here: cimmyt.org/blogs/wheat-ve…

The importance of the farmer: Pete Berry achieving yield potential on-farm through the yield enhancement network and the importance of farm/ farmer factor

Interesting YEN - The Yield Enhancement Network results describing the "Farmer Factor" underpinning on-farm wheat yield performance in the UK presented by Pete Berry ADAS during today's WUN heatwaves and drought group event

Great to hear from @YoselinBenAlf and her work on mechanical properties of cell walls under climate change

How do governance and frameworks filter down funding to water research? Alesia Ofori explores scalar and interconnecting research with water@leeds

Great opportunity to share our recently published on Top 100 Water Research Questions with participants at the WUN heatwaves and drought group hybrid event. I spoke about the interdisciplinary work of water@leeds and the broader application of our water survey output to global plant researchers

It was a real pleasure to present at the WUN/BBSRC International meeting University of Leeds. Thanks for great questions.

#Sorghum Research Rocks!! Sibongile Zimba University of Leeds Plant Sciences Leeds @ScienceLeeds WUN heatwaves and drought group @GlobalFoodLeeds Stefan Kepinski

Day 2 begins of our hybrid event. Join us in-person or online now!

Great talk to start off day 2 from Laura Dixon on the exploration of fundamental wheat research in temperature and photoperiod on flowering timing genes.

Alterations in the cell wall integrity trigger activation of resistance genes and play a role in strawberry pathogen resistance says Sara Posé Albacete from IHSM La Mayora

There are separate temperature sensors for heat and cold says Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti and we can use this to understand and mitigate the effects of climate change

How can farmers prepare and adapt their farming systems to mitigate the effects of climate change? Multiscale modelling in computational biology had the answers says Anyela Camargo Rodriguez from Niab

Interesting talk about diagnostic marker assisted breeding of hypoallergenic peanut research by Manish Pandey from ICRISAT

Is CO2 always bad? No, says Christine Foyer from Uni of Birmingham . Total biomass was increased in strigolactone pea plant mutants under high CO2.

Just before lunch we heard about future funding opportunities and the strategic priorities of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research from Emma Markham 🧬