Kerrie Forrest

📢 Abstract deadline extended for ABTS 2026. Abstract submissions for the Australian Barley Technical Symposium will now close on 26 April 2026. Submit online for oral, elevator pitch and poster consideration #barley #ABTS2026 abts2026.com.au

🚀 More #ABTS2026 keynote speakers announced! 🌾 Christoph Dockter 🌾 Tim George 🌾 Vitor Pistoia Outstanding speakers covering barley physiology, sustainability and global markets. Register and submit your abstract: abts2026.com.au @CarlsbergGroup @IntBarleyHub @Rabobank

🚀 ABTS2026 is coming to Geelong this August! We’re excited to showcase some of our world‑class keynote speakers 🌾 Don’t miss your chance to be part of the conversation shaping the future of barley! 👉Registration & abstract submissions now open: abts2026.com.au

We invite you to attend the #ABTS2026 in Geelong from 17–20 August 2026 Visit abts2026.com.au and register now to secure earlybird rate and submit your abstract #barley

Urbanisation and weeds just two of many threats to precious crop wild relatives explains @salnorton73 #Australian Grains Genebank on our ‘Crop Diversity’ panel with @CropTrust

🙌 National Ag Day 2024 🙌 Shout out to Australian growers this #AgDayAU for the incredible food and fibre they grow! #GRDC #GrainIndustry #AusAg #GrowYouGoodThing @OzFarmers

A team led by the @LeibnizIPK, incl. @Nils__Stein and @murukarthickj, reports a pangenome of barley comprising long-read sequence assemblies of 76 wild and domesticated genomes. The results were published in @Nature. ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/bdf3ruk2 ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/2e59xvw2

Join InterGrain as a Barley Breeder! We’re seeking an enthusiastic professional to join our Barley breeding team based in Perth, WA or Horsham, Victoria. Ready to make an impact in cereal breeding? Apply now! 👉 intergrain.com/career/barley-…

The Australian Grains Genebank keeps grains genetic diversity for breeding new, improved varieties. Now a $30M, 5yr co-investment with @VicGovAu @VicGovAg will integrate significant advances in genomics, phenomics & big data informatics to make it even more valuable and useful to the grains industry. 👉 bit.ly/3XTElwi

Thrilled to see the @illumina Infinium Pulses SNP BeadChip has been released! It was great to see the results being achieved through its use across so many research projects and breeding programs at the #ICLGG2024 @theGRDC @VicGovAg

A very promising talk for chickpea breeders by @ForrestKerrie at #ICLGG 2024

Great insights from Dr Don Isdale from @VicGovAg on how software solutions such as PRETZEL can enable integrated genomic databases. #IWC2024Perth

The final day of #PAGAustralia! Prof Matt Hayden starts us off with how plant biodiversity can be used for crop improvement. All programmes discussed (esp Pretzel and Genolink) have exciting prospects to increase applicability of genomic data for crop improvement @MU_CCFI_Biotech

The Australian Grains Genebank brings together Australia's crop genetic resources to support ongoing crop productivity, sustainability and profitability gains through the collection and management of novel genetic diversity. Very proud partners with @VicGovAg 👉 groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/deliverin…

Dr Hari Dadu @VicGovGrains explains Development of an international host differential set for spot form net blotch in barley #ABTS2024 #barley

David Chisanga @VicGovGrains presents New barley genomic resources in the Australian Grains Genebank: Delivering transformative impact to the Australian barley industry #ABTS2024 #barley

CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Chickpea breeder role with @ChickpeaAus based at Tamworth. Details in the link below, closes Feb 6. RTs appreciated. Check out this job on SEEK: seek.com.au/job/73232394?t…

@SurbhiG6 #pretzel is great for this. Requires some background work initially, but really worth the effort plantinformatics.io

Genomics people, do you have a preferred program/tool to plot/visualise synteny between large plant genomes/chrs? I've seen #plotsr but you need the alignments first with minimap which doesn't support long chrs. Anything that does it all & looks pretty? #genomics #bioinformatics

Happy to see this paper out! @zitongyuzt CRISPRed wheat gluten genes to achieve 47-fold reduction in immunotoxicity; step towards developing safer wheat-based products! @KSUPlantDr @KansasWheat @KStateResearch #NIFAImpacts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Wheat Genome Book is out! The first comprehensive book about the wheat genome, including a complete review of the resources available for research, crop improvement and teaching. In open access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…