Very happy to announce that we have been awarded a £1.6M industrial partnership award by @BBSRC in collaboration with @KWSUKLtd for the development of an efficient hybrid wheat system led by Julie King @UoNresearch @UoNPressOffice @PlantSciNottm @UoNBiosciences @SurbhiG6 @sbzipk

Promoting genebank resources at #FSTP5 is Noam Chayut from @JohnInnesCentre talking about the hexaploid and tetraploid wheat collections at the Germplasm Resource Unit

The Carlotta Award 2025 goes to @PhilippaBorrill from the @JohnInnesCentre who talks about methylation mutants in bread wheat 👏#FSTP5 #WomenInWheat

Klaudia Kruppa from Martonvasar Hungary @MGIHUNREN gets 2nd prize for The Carlotta Award 🥈 #FSTP5 for her work on introgressing Thinopyrum into wheat for leaf rust resistance and drought tolerance

Great talk by Filippo Bassi @fillobax durum wheat breeder @ICARDA on genomic breeding for dryland durum. Look out for the ‘new drought’. #FSTP5

Great talk by @Val_Klymiuk from @SaskWheat on pre-breeding for disease resistance in Canadian bread and durum wheat using wild relatives of wheat at #FSTP5 Very impressive work and good luck for your new role as Applied Genomics and Pre-breeding Chair @usask

Durum wheat breeder Karim Ammar from @CIMMYT gave an insightful talk on strategies to accelerate genetic gains and improve durum wheat resilience to climate change especially for drought tolerance and stem rust resistance #FSTP5

Special mention for The Carlotta Award #FSTP5 goes to @veronicaguwela from @cimmyt on her PhD work on introgressing wild relative segments into Malawian wheat to increase grain nutrient content @Notts_WRC funded by @UoNBiosciences Future Food Beacon

Excellent talk on FHB resistance breeding in durum wheat by @CurtisPozniak from @USaskResearch @CDC_USask at #FSTP5 great progress is being made.

Julie King, Director of the @Notts_WRC talks about the wheat wild relative introgression programme in bread and durum wheat at #FSTP5 and transfer of FHB resistance to durum wheat funded by @BBSRC and @LeverhulmeTrust @UoNBiosciences

Great presentation: Transfer and characterization of wild relative introgressions into durum wheat by Julie King @Notts_WRC #FSTP5

The @Notts_WRC is here in Bari. Looking forward to a great conference on durum wheat breeding #FSTP5

Augusto Becerra DDG Research @ICARDA kicks off Day 1 of the From Seed to Pasta #FSTP5 Conference in Bari, Italy with a talk on the role of ICARDA in durum wheat breeding.

Glad to be here at the #FSTP5 conference in Bari and have the opportunity to talk tomorrow on Day 2 about our durum wheat pre-breeding programme!

Well done to @NikkiW_Hortic in getting this review on gametocidal genes out in @annbot. You’ve worked so hard on this, almost gone ‘cuckoo’ yourself…iykyk! @nottm_bbsrc_dtp @UoNBiosciences @Notts_WRC https://t.co/HOZwPSlQR2

Prof Evans Lagudah @lag002 Chief Research Scientist from @CSIRO gives the first @BS_PP Peter Scott Memorial lecture on durable rust resistance genes in wheat at the #PPATH2025. Very informative and lots of great work. Acknowledged the great contribution of wheat wild relatives.

Rt. Prof Matt Dickinson, now President of the British Society of Plant Pathology @BS_PP, reflects back on his career and talks about his 30 year tenure at @UoNBiosciences working on wheat rusts and phytoplasmas, at the #PPATH2025 Welcome talk titled “Overcoming a lack of culture”

Our latest study published in @FrontPlantSci by @manel_othmeni Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Triticum timopheevii introgression lines for flowering morphology traits for hybrid wheat use Funded by @IWYP_wheat @BBSRC https://t.co/3Euqzr9O4c @UoNBiosciences

Still in the weeds, just with a new title. I’m delighted to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor. Grateful for the brilliant colleagues, collaborators, mentors, and students who’ve shaped this journey, and for the wild relatives that keep it interesting.

Looking forward to my visit @JohnInnesCentre today. If you're around pop in for the seminar I'm giving this afternoon.

Nottingham Wheat Research Centre pays tribute to Dr George Fedak (1940-2025). A distinguished scientist @AAFC_Canada, Dr Fedak made invaluable contributions to wheat research and resistance breeding with his use of wheat wild relative species. May he rest in peace.