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Hey look Costco is promoting their brand new super duper #OAT variety 🤣

These are some of the great #oat researchers I work with at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre, AAFC Canada, on the #CentralExperimentalFarm: Drs. Nick Tinker, Wubi Bekele, and Asuka Itaya, with Carleton University co-op student Dominic Carmanico....

The website for the American #Oat Workers' Conference (AOWC) in Saskatoon, Canada, next July is now up! conferences.usask.ca/aowc2024/ Anyone anywhere who works with #oats is welcome to attend the meetings. Details of the program will be available in the coming months.

Cornell researchers have discovered a gene in #hemp for resistance to powdery mildew – giving the fledgling hemp industry a new tool to combat one of the most prevalent diseases affecting the production of high-cannabinoid Cannabis sativa. MPMI Journal news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

Bad news for powdery mildew, good news for Cannabis sativa—Read the paper in First Look here: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-0… George Stack Craig Carlson Ali Cala Larry Smart Luis Monserrate Seth Don't Call Me Doctor Christine Smart

An exciting tenure-track position at the School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell CALS!

Rolling out our new ZÜRN 150 plot combine w/ HarvestMaster for #OAT breeding and genetics! It wasn’t an easy procurement but absolutely well worth the effort! Looks like I need to make some big ‘ol oat panicle decals Agricultural Research Service Oat Newsletter

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2024 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) awards honoring outstanding early-career scientists engaged in wheat research. Deadline to apply is January 31, 2024. CIMMYT Gates Foundation Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office bgri.cornell.edu/2024-wit-award…

It's live! Job announcement for a Research Plant Pathologist (GS 12-15) in the Cereal Crops Research Unit at USDA-ARS in Fargo, ND. Host-pathogen interactions in wheat and barley pathosystems. Closes 3/18. Apply today on USAJOBS: usajobs.gov/job/777001900

Quantitative Genetics and Advanced Breeding course to be taught in Uruguay April 1-5 2024. This is the Tucson Plant Breeding Institute in Uruguay. Bruce Walsh, Mike Gore, and Lucia Gutierrez. Register soon to secure your spot! uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Z…

I really like this call to refocus the "broader impacts" part of the NSF review criteria to "societal benefits." Basic research has so much potential to build a more resilient, economically prosperous and healthy society. science.org/content/articl…

Thank you Donna Lupardo for your passion and advocacy for hemp research and the research Cornell CALS and Cornell AgriTech

Our work on improving the milling quality in oats using multitrait genomic selection has been published in The Plant Genome 🌱🧬. This work would have not been possible without the guidance & mentorship of my advisor Juan D. Arbelaez and Jessica Rutkoski. Special thanks to other collaborators. #Oat

Vacancy for a seed production technician working with oats, beans, forage grass and clover

The video from the "Speaking of #Oats..." webinar featuring Duong Nguyen and Melania Figueroa (CSIRO) talking about crown rust has now been posted on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=_JxHGY… and in the Oat Newsletter oatnews.org/oatnews_pdfs/2…. Get in touch if you'd like to be a speaker!

#AOWC2024 continued with talks on abiotic stress and pathology including by ⁦Craig Carlson⁩ on seedling response to drought in collaboration with ⁦Plant Phenomics⁩ ⁦IBERS - Aber⁩

As the monarch butterfly population has declined in North America since 1996, see how ARS scientists have developed the first cryopreservation protocol for long-term storage of the butterfly's germplasm -- protecting the monarch's future as a species. loom.ly/5q2eACY

Proud of this one from my postdoc Sudeshi Seneviratne. Extensive characterization of the Snn1 susceptibility gene in #wheat and development of highly effective markers for breeding. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tp…

New Postdoc Opportunity (Term 2-years) 🌾 Join my lab at USDA-ARS in Fargo, ND! We're advancing spring oat genetics through quantitative genetics, genomics, and phenomics. 🔬 Ph.D. in Plant Breeding/Genetics or related field Apply now! usajobs.gov/job/824840300