Wheat_ResearchCentre

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

Excited to share WheatCoordDB, a free tool for the wheat genomics community 🌾 Got a QTL interval, marker position, or introgression breakpoint in CS RefSeq v2.1? Convert it to 24 wheat assemblies instantly, right in your browser. 🔗 surbhigrewal.github.io/WheatCoordDB

🚨New paper out now in @TheorApplGenet! We report the transfer of 98% of the wild relative Aegilops mutica genome into bread wheat as introgressions. This expands genetic diversity for wheat breeding and reveals patterns of homoeologous recombination. 🌾 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨New in today! Narrowing in on the Fusarium Head Blight type II resistance gene transferred from wild relative Triticum timopheevii into bread wheat with significant reduction in DON accumulation. 🌾 @Notts_WRC @JohnInnesCentre @UoNBiosciences frontiersin.org/journals/plant…

Published our low cost high throughput DNA extraction method in @PlantMethods last month. It’s what we use for our KASP genotyping. Highly recommend. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12… @Notts_WRC @UoNBiosciences

The Nottingham Wheat Research Centre wishes you all a happy new year 2026!

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 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar…

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.