Tom O'Hara

NEWS - Hope from an unexpected source in the global race to stop wheat blast New research unexpectedly reveals that wheat varieties with resistance to another pathogen, powdery mildew, also confer protection against wheat blast okt.to/7qypmh @NorwichResearch

Our research showing that “The powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4 also confers resistance to wheat blast” is available now in Nature Plants! 🌾🌾 nature.com/articles/s4147…

@samwalds ‘Coelenterates’, that’s a new one 😅

My new favourite thing: automatically generated power point alt text descriptions of images of my research (confocal images of plant cells with plasmodesmata localised fluorescent proteins). They make me giggle a lot. 🤣

@samwalds @Ruby_Coates I just listened to the rain and thought about food Your way sounds much better 😅

@Ruby_Coates No idea! 🤷‍♂️ I ended up just reading a book for a long while, because I really did not want to face the world that early 😅

Weekdays: Brain: Wake up early, to go be productive! Body: Got it. Wake up early with one snooze cycle and a 5min. brain booting moment. Weekend: Brain: Sleep in to relax and recover from the week. Body: Got it! WAKE UP at 4:30am, ready to jump out of bed! 🙈

@PBandham @samwalds I also tried that, they just disappeared off face of the earth 😅

@samwalds Switch to using a different colour and watch how everyone else's stashes gradually assimilate over time... that's what I did 😝

How many years of continuous 'pen supply flow' does it need to saturate an office/lab area to a level that there is a pen wherever and whenever you might need a pen? 🙃

1/2. Interested in discovering Avr in #fungi? Check our work with stem rust in @FrontPlantSci. We developed mutant urediniospore libraries and screened for gain-of-virulence against the resistance genes Sr43 and Sr45. @JohnInnesCentre @cerealpath doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2…

Wheat blast detected in Zambia!

'Speed breeding' scores Lee Hickey a major agrifood award | The Land “We face the challenge of developing more robust and productive crops to feed our growing population”- ⁦@DrHikov⁩ queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/6213189/…

#RHSCHELSEA - The brassica plants in this ‘allotment’ style garden were genetically modified. These were the 1st GM crops ever shown at Chelsea. Like the TV, GM tech has come a long way since 1997, we can now use tech like CRISPR/Cas9 to make precision changes to existing genes

Would you drink #beer made #GMO barley? These GMO disease resistant barley plants are growing super fast in the #speedbreeding system at @JohnInnesCentre and have BIG potential to dramatically reduce fungicides on farm