After a very dry start, these small field plots are looking not too bad. We’ve introduced novel alleles of genes for enhancing yield into an elite background. Work from an old International Wheat Yield Partnership project and a current GRDC tender. Next year proper sized trials at multiple sites

Last day of the Royal Adelaide Show. ARC ITTC Future Crops’ PhD student Ciara Danes helping visitors build terrariums for growing wheat. Over 700 terrariums built during the show! University of Adelaide Adelaide University School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.

Great to get out of the office and into the field on a Friday morning to harvest tissue from the OzBarley population. This is for our GRDC proof of concept project, looking for new mechanisms for salinity tolerance. @bberger-au.bsky.social.

ARC ITTC Future Crops Centre and Adelaide University School of Agriculture Food & Wine stall at the Royal Adelaide Show. Find us in the Golden Grains Pavilion. Come build wheat terrariums, paint with different soils, try cricket chips 🦗 and see what you can smell in our wine ferments.

Congratulations to @futurecropsau.bsky.social PhD student Yiting Xie, who has just had his first manuscript accepted in Plant Phenomics. bit.ly/3UrkFP6. Yiting’s work uses images and machine learning to help determine when a wheat plant will flower.

Multi-Modal Few-Shot Learning for Anthesis Prediction of Individual Wheat Plants

Anthesis prediction is crucial for breeding wheat. While current tools provide estimates of average anthesis at the field scale, they fail to address …

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Out in the paddock sampling the OzBarley population for our new GRDC project to understand novel salinity tolerance mechanisms in barley. With @bberger-au.bsky.social and a team from the Australian Plant Phenomics Network.

🌿 SAVE THE DATE: ASPS Conference 2025! Join us 24-27 November at Flinders University, South Australia! Registration opens in June. Stay tuned for program details and abstract submission information. www.asps.org.au/asps25 #ASPS2025 #PlantScience #Conference

Applications for the prestigious ASPS awards (Jan Anderson Award, Peter Goldacre Award, Teaching and Outreach Award) have been extended until 6 June 2025. For detailed information and application guidelines, see www.asps.org.au/awards

🚨Our team is hiring!!! If you are an image and data researcher, we might have the right job for you. Join a diverse team and apply your skills to address the big questions of climate resilience in agriculture and food security. careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Learn more about South Australia's new university for the future.

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Best place to teach experimental design and statistics - Out in the sun with students being an active part of the experimental design. First up, the importance of randomisation. Big thanks to University of Adelaide’s maths learning centre for all your help

Paddle board practice. Fell in so many times the local lifeguards came to check out I was ok. #dolphins #paddleboard

BARLEY RESEARCHERS – apply to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and QLD. Study phenotypic traits or methods on ~220 elite barley lines. More info here www.plantphenomics.org.au/2025-ozbarle... #NCRISimpact #GRDC

2025 OzBarley field trial sites open to researchers

Crop researchers are invited to access the 2025 OzBarley field trial sites in WA, SA, NSW and Queensland to study phenonmic traits and validate…

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"John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research

This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

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New paper! @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social AM fungi decreased the bioavailability of micronutrients (Zn + Fe) in rice 🌾 We used Synchrotron XFM to look at micronutrient concentrations in the aleurone layer of +/- AMF rice, and compared them to wholegrain concentrations 🧐 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase aleurone layer zinc concentration but reduce overall zinc bioavailability in rice grain

Rice is a critical crop for the delivery of calories and essential micronutrients to the human diet. Biofortification of rice with zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) aims to combat the health issues associated ....

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Excited to share our latest research! Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can improve the water use and P acquisition efficiencies of aerobically grown Aus rice 🌾🍚 @mycoresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Improve the Water Use and Phosphorus Acquisition Efficiencies of Aerobically Grown Rice

Most rice production is conducted in flooded (anaerobic) soil conditions, but aerobic rice cultivation presents several potential benefits: increased grain water use efficiency (gWUE), reduced methan....

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Post-doc opportunity in my lab at JIC, on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock and interactions with plants. Part of ERC Synergy programme "MicroClock", collaborating with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and Martha Merrow #chronobiology @microclockerc.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

New year, new job! 🚀 If you are an agricultural science graduate this unique and exciting position could be yours. Apply to be our Centre Training Coordinator and develop training opportunities for the next generation of plant and animal breeders. 🐮🌱 bit.ly/4fi64xj

Not my usual plant/crop post but festive instead- Cairngorm reindeer. #holidays

Completed harvest of #GRDC field trials looking at novel #alleles for improved growth/yield in wheat in rain fed areas. Amazed we got anything from the trial with late sowing (lack of rain), little in season rain, and a frost. Big thanks to #ARC #FutureCrops students and staff who helped out.

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The ARC Training Centre in Plant Biosecurity (@arc-pbtc.bsky.social) has NINE PhD scholarships now open. Each come with integrated placements in government or industry and professional development for future research leaders. plantbiosecuritycentre.edu.au/phd-opportun...

Come and work with us at the John Innes Centre! We’re recruiting a technician to investigate circadian rhythms in plants and bacteria. Expertise in microbiology, gene cloning, imaging are welcome #chronobiology #arabidopsis #bacillus www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/re...

Research Assistant (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to join the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre, conducting cutting-edge research into circadian rhythms in bacteria and plants.

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We’re so grateful to GRDC for supporting our research investigating heat resilience in wheat - great collaboration with @hikemaydon.bsky.social and Sunita Ramesh 👉 bit.ly/3AVR8ag

Unravelling the biochemistry of heat response

A project was launched in 2023 to subject heat-responsive biochemical pathways in wheat to rigorous analysis. The aim is to scan for new opportunities to provide wheat breeders with tools to select fo...

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Australian Society of Plant Scientists: #ARC #FutureCropsDevelopment #PhD students presenting their industry led projects: novel salt tolerant wheat; improved barley nitrogen use efficiency; AI to improve flowering time predictions in crops; and enhancing root growth to improve yield. #asps24

Ok, no more lurking, time to start posting Happy to share our #TiPS #review of #HKT and role in #salttolerance is now #OpenAccess bit.ly/4i6WT5I Review written by a fantastic joint Uni Nottingham & Uni Adelaide #PhD student. #WeAreUoN #UniAdelaide

Here is a starter to a starter pack for the Aus plant science community. Let’s rebuild. #plantscience Let me know if you want to be added. Help me find more. go.bsky.app/AiLTKHH