Hélène Pidon

Closing #FSTP5 in Bari, Italy!!! We had excellent time and saw fantastic presentations and posters! We thank the chairs and organisers and are looking forward to come back to Italy for #IWC2026Bologna

Setting everything up for the meeting of our Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding!
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Great talk of Carlotta Award 1st class winner Philippa Borrill
@philippa.borrill.bsky.social
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Very nice talk from Klaudia Kruppa second class winner of the Carlotta Award!!! #FSTP5

Very interesting talk of Samuela Palombieri (Unitus, DAFNE, Italy) first class winner of the Carlotta Award at #FSTP5

Congratulations to the Carlotta Award winners! What a nice ceremony at #FSTP5

Istvan Molnar showed us another great introversion ressources, this time from Aegilops. Together with genomics, cytogenetic is a great tool #FSTP5

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

Elisabeth Mazzucotelli illustrated great ressources for studying straits: wild and domesticated core collections, emmer NAM population but also collection of more minor wild relatives. All this linked to genomic ressources. Amazing time to be a geneticist! #FSTP5

I love the results from archeological genomics! Assaf Distelfeld showed us a great example with emmer, providing really nice insights into the domestication #FSTP5

I don’t know for you but I hate recorded talks… #FSTP5

Julie King introversion lines from wild relatives and the tools they made to analyse them is a great ressource! Quite impressive work #FSTP5

It’s a bit better this morning, but still not fantastic 4 out of 19… yesterday afternoon was 2/11. Let’s raise awareness so we can improve this together! #FSTP5

Time for the first gender balance counting at #FSTP5: this morning we had 16 amazing speakers: 15 men and one woman… this do not reflect the audience gender balance! We can do better! #womeninSTEM

Curtis Pozniak perfectly illustrated all we can do with those genomic tools, displaying FHB resistance research #FSTP5

The durum genomic tool-box

Following the talks of Marco Maccaferri and Luigi Cattivelli, I can say that the future of durum wheat genetics looks bright with a lot of genomic tools recently or soon available for the community! #FSTP5

🌾 We're getting everything set up at the From Seed to Pasta conference here in beautiful Bari!
📍 Come visit us at our booth, we can't wait to connect, share ideas, and talk all things pasta, wheat, and innovation.
See you soon! #FSTP5 #Bari2025

Conference logo on a tote bag

Live from #FSTP5! I’m exited to meet the durum wheat community, my new community! If you want to hear about the research that was carried out in SBCMV and WSSMV resistances and my research axes, come and meet at poster 112. I’ll also be giving a short talk on Friday

FSTP IV - Bologna / Italy 2022 - Photogallery

We prepare for From Seed to Pasta V in Bari, how inspiring to look at #FSTP4 in Bologna (2022). Over 300 scientists from 30+ countries joined to support climate challenges, wheat genetics for sustainable pasta. 🌍🍝 #FSTP5 #WheatConnect www.fromseedtopasta.com/fstp-iv-bologna-italy-2022/

I just saw I wrote "a chromosome scale assembly" 🤦‍♀️
It's not one but 10! Representing 32 haplotypes!

By posting for the first time in quite a while, I realized I didn’t inform here of my lab change! I’m now working within the GE2pop group of AGAP institut where I’m leading the research on #WSSMV and #SBCMV resistance in durum wheat. Stay tuned for updates on genetic basis of resistances to viruses!

Thank you to all coauthors, it was a privilege to collaborate with you.
Special thanks to Nils Stein for the opportunity to be part of this incredible work, and for his support throughout, and to Martin and Jia-Wu for the huge work they did on the paper.

🚨 Our Nature paper is out!
We present a chromosome-scale assembly of a wild barley relative, unlocking insights into virus resistance and genome evolution 🌾🧬
My contribution focused on dissecting the BYDV resistance locus.
#PlantScience #Genomics #Barley #BYDV #NaturePaper

Wild plants can contribute valuable genes to their domesticated relatives. An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social constructed a pangenome of barley’s closest wild relative, Hordeum bulbosum. Results in @nature.com.

➡️PR: tinyurl.com/45ysmkys
➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/msm4sudb

Standing Up For Science in France In the face of Trump’s administration’s relentless attacks on democratic institutions, civil rights, science, public health agencies, environmental regulation, and climate data collection, and as universities and research institutions across Europe also come under increasing pressure, the French scientific community is taking action. On March 7, 2025, scientists, educators, students, and concerned citizens will march and rally in cities across France to defend science and the humanities as pillars of democracy. This mobilization is organized in solidarity with the "Stand Up For Science" movement in the US.

Press release from Stand Up For Science France (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social)

Corentin Maslard made a very nice presentation on effect oh heat and water stress on maize roots and microbial communities. Huge amount of work with multiomics. Roots exudates are the most affected. Heat stress have a mild effect, combined stresses are more than a sum. #ISRR12

Fabrice Bauget switch to something more molecular. He showed their work on a model predicting water horizontal flow in the root #ISRR12

Clément Saint Cast showed a method to 3D scan and model pine tree root system. The digitalized and modeled roots were very promising results #ISRR12

Charlotte White presented works done in the field and without soil in a lab early growth system. Some traits correlate nicely between the 2 very different systems. Plenty more results to come to confirm and elaborate #ISRR12

Marcus Griffiths presented his work on the cover crop pennycress, either in field (with root washing and scanning the roots), and in mesocosm. In the field, they saw a large effect of accessions on root length, with QTLs, and a - correlation between root length and density #ISRR12