Explaining genetics through gummybears

Today’s #tomato harvest 🍅 #harvest20

A year of missing you...today the Genetics & Breeding team got together to remember our brilliant friend & colleague Greg Mellers who passed away last year. Greg still has a big impact on our work & on our lives ♥️

So let’s raise a toast for us all to remember, The wonderful Greg in his final September. Remembering our colleague Greg today, who passed away a year ago today 🌅

And I’ve got a bucket full of ears from my garden. #wheat #CitizenScience #WFH 🌾 👨‍🔬 👨‍🌾

🚨NEWS STORY🚨New sources of wheat diversity unlocked by massive-scale genomic study: Growers, wheat breeders and crop scientists are all set to benefit from one of the largest genetic analysis ever carried out of an agricultural crop. See: niab.com/news-views/new…

Really interesting programme about the history of wheat 🌾 domestication -> green revolution and beyond 🚜 🧬

In honour of #NationalPoetryDay, here's my work 🌾: I study and research wheat, It is good to eat, It grows in farmers' fields, I'm trying to increase yields, And that would be pretty neat.

#Argentina #Economy #GM #Wheat #Science Argentina, the fourth-largest wheat exporter in the world, has become the first country in the world to approve the commercialisation of a variety of transgenic wheat. batimes.com.ar/news/argentina…

Fantastic opportunity for an iCASE PhD studying barley yellow dwarf virus in wheat Rothamsted Research University of Bristol with application into wheat breeding RAGT Seeds UK. Guaranteed some excellent supervision (and some ramblings from myself) swbio.ac.uk/files/2020/10/…

Excellent final G&B talk by Alison Bentley covering 12+ years of work and progress in UK #wheat🌾 Final message (paraphrasing) #teamwork makes the #dream work. Lots of Mexican themed virtual zoom backgrounds, including @GIAradottir and Thomas Wood in a mariachi band 😂

socially distant cake and bubbles with Alison Bentley 🥮🍾 #watchoutforthecork

Looking for a PhD that combines bioinformatics, genetics and biochemistry? Very excited to offer this project with me @KewScience and David Seung John Innes Centre exploring starch diversity in wheat and wild grasses! Deadline 23rd November.

Safeguarding global crop diversity is vitally important Svalbard Seed Vault but so is cookie diversity. Please OREO Cookie let McVitie's dark chocolate Hobnobs into your vault youtu.be/-I9PMUmVcoc 😂🌾🍪

Bit of a garden tidy up and found some of love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) seed heads full of germinating seeds. New year. New life. 🌱

Please RT My lab is looking for a bioinformatician post-doc scientist for four years. Please DM/email me for more info. Minimum annual salary: $60K + benefits.

📣#VACANCY📣 Seasonal Field Trials Technicians A great opportunity to gain experience in field crops/plot trials, we have several roles available, involving: 👉Sample collection 🌾measuring plant characteristics 👩‍🌾a range of other practical tasks. Visit: ow.ly/9e6S50DnuNc

Our work on the wheat D-subgenome evolution from its progenitor is out on bioRxiv!! Great work by Kumar Gaurav Brande Wulff @pausilva_poli JessePoland Wheat Genomics Lab JavierSanchez BeatKeller RichardHorsnell Alison Bentley Liangliang Gao and all others who contributed!!

🎉Competition time🎉 To celebrate England in the #Euros2021 final we are giving you a chance to win a bottle of RGT Wolverine Gin ⚽ To enter simply follow us (RAGT Seeds UK) & RT this tweet by 23:59 on 11/07 T&Cs: UK entrants only. Good luck! #FreebieFriday #WIN #competition

Lovely to be back Niab in Cambridge catching up on all the latest genetics & breeding research in wheat, chickpeas & more 🌱