NOVEL APPROACH - "The breeding process is poised to undergo an improvement in precision and efficiency through haplotype-led breeding” - Jemima Brinton okt.to/CHrP5R

Novel Salinity Tolerance Loci in Chickpea Identified in Glasshouse and Field Environments frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

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Also new in @nature today is a paper that describes a wheat mutant that is resistant to powdery mildew without yield costs and the resisatnce allele of which can be rapidly introduced into elite wheat lines by precision genome editing go.nature.com/3rCSeQI

.CIMMYT scientists are testing forgotten wheat varieties from across the world to find those with heat- and drought-tolerant traits. The aim is to outpace human-made global heating and breed climate-resilient varieties so yields do not collapse theguardian.com/environment/20…

Harnessing light to hack a breeding bottleneck for winter cereal crops Our new 'speed vernalization' method enables growing up to 5 generations of winter wheat and barley per year: cell.com/molecular-plan… Read the news story here: hickeylab.com/harnessing-lig…

Ancient hunter-gatherers were potters, too science.org/content/articl…

Exotic wheat DNA helps breed 'climate-proof' crops phys.org/news/2023-01-e… via Phys.org

Did you see IWYP latest science brief? Have a look here 👇 iwyp.org/wp-content/upl…

Happy to share our latest manuscript exploring the physiological and genetic basis of grain yield determination in 'Miracle-Wheat'. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Grateful to my supervisor Thorsten Schnurbusch, Guy Golan, & Prof. Dr. Friedrich Longin for all the support.

Whole-genome sequencing of diverse wheat accessions uncovers genetic changes during modern breeding in China and the United States (Jianqing Niu, Shengwei Ma, Shusong Zheng, Chi Zhang, Yaru Lu, Yaoqi Si, Shuiquan Tian, Xiaoli Shi, et al) buff.ly/47VqDgB ASPB #PlantSci

The population of our ancestors may have plummeted to as low as 1300 around 900,000 years ago, possibly as a result of our lineage splitting away from other early humans newscientist.com/article/239012…

Maxsil salt trial looking promising early. Never had anything germinate on these soaks. Far side of Ute for reference

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Loss of HKT1;5D via a spontaneous terminal deletion elevates leaf sodium in bread wheat, but is independent of yield or salinity tolerance academic.oup.com/jxb/article-ab…

What was the first human species? livescience.com/archaeology/hu…

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