Katherine Steele @kasteele - Bluesky Profile

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Elsie Emmanuel Olatunji is identifying resistance alleles in tomato for breeding
against early blight. #PPATH2025 #ECPP2025

09.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Continuing on our Applied Plant Pathology in Agriculture session at #PPATH2025 with great talks from
🍁John Bonkowski - Purdue University
🍒 @mojganrabiey.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social
🥔 @kasteele.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
🥕 Don Pendergrast @agriiuk.bsky.social

09.09.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Protecting Authentic Basmati: UK Enforces Rice Authenticity Standards However, some of these basmati varieties have proven substandard, missing the signature popcorn-like aroma that makes basmati so highly prized.In August an investigation by the Food Standards Agency N...

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23.08.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Potato breeding presentation

I presented at the 20th Joint Meeting of EAPR 'Breeding and Varietal Assessment' and EUCARPIA 'Potatoes' 2025. The conference theme was Potato Breeding in the Era of Pan Genomes and Advanced Genetics.

28.06.2025 08:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Potato experiment in a field in Wales

Blight trial 2025

06.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The genetic basis of human height Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00834-1Genetic factors that influence human height encompass rare monogenic variants as well as common and rare polygenic variants. In this Review, Bicknell et al. summarize our current understanding of the genetic underpinnings of human stature and link these genes to common developmental and cellular pathways that affect skeletal growth.

FYI: New online! The genetic basis of human height

28.04.2025 03:00 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Great session teaching flower structure today with plenty of samples from the orchid collection at Bangor University's Treborth Botanic Garden for everyone to dissect

26.02.2025 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Got to look at the properties of my PGR student's mycosynthesised nanoparticles in the NFI labs today.

21.02.2025 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sunday botany afternoon at Coed Cilygroeslwyd: forgot my phone so no photos, but saw loads of snowdrops, stinking hellebore, at least five species of fern, more of fungi and lots of one very happy pleurocarp moss.

09.02.2025 17:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@kasteele is following 20 prominent accounts

Denis Ezhelev
@denezhelev

SEO specialist - GanttPRO. Search engine optimization. Technologies. Startups. Economics. Nature. http://threads.net/@denezhelev

Conversation Kenge
@fenken

Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.

Association of Applied Biologists
@aabiologists

Learned society bringing together a community of applied biologists around the world under a broad mission to improve agricultural productivity. https://www.aab.org.uk/

The Pallavi Singh Lab
@thepallavisinghlab

Plant Molecular Physiology and Functional Genomics group🌱 Cracking crop resilience with grafting, single-cell approaches & synthetic biology for a changing climate 🌍 Head of group: @thepallavisingh.bsky.social; CM: @martinezgonixs.bsky.social

Ryan Whitford
@rmwhitford

A/Prof Ryan Whitford - cereal scientist - whose translatable research outcomes are in wheat reproductive biology. “Nullius in verba.” Opinions are my own. https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/profile/ryan_whitford

Lydia
@drlydiamjsmith

Botanist

Jeevan Shrestha
@jeevanz

Postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica, studying rice root plasticity.

Maya_Looking_at_Soil
@looking-at-soil

Environmental Chem. PhD- #soil #wheat #rhizosphere #microbiome explorer @JohnInnesCentre by day. Globetrotter, bunny hugger, art @instagram minos_atelier

KeyGene
@keygene.com

Technology innovation for crop improvement

International Food Policy Research Institute
@ifpri.org

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI is a CGIAR research center (@cgiar.org). www.ifpri.org

Marek Glombik
@glombikm

postdoc in De Vega lab, Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK. Pangenomes, polyploid crops, evolution and improvement.

IRNASA-CSIC
@irnasa

Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca | We research in global health, agri-food productivity, bioeconomy, environmental conservation and climate change 👩‍🔬🦠🌱🐖

Grass Genomics lab
@ahalllab

Lab interested in the evolution of grasses, identifying traits underlying agronomic traits and the circadian clock

@nffn

UK-wide farmer membership org 🌱 We raise awareness, share knowledge and advocate for better policies on food, farming, nature & climate. Join us for free! 🔗 https://www.nffn.org.uk/

Grist
@grist.org

We're a nonprofit news org dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Get our journalism in your inbox: https://grist.org/subscribe/

Mathan_
@mathangpb

Plant breeder -TNAU_Rice breeder- IIRR- Research Fellow_🌾

Vicki Hird MSc FRES
@vickihird

Lobbies on food, farming, environment policy, just transition & research,strategy, talks, writing, blogs, books.. Passion for bugs Author of 'Rebugging the Planet' & 'Perfectly Safe to Eat?' Share≠agree https://linktr.ee/vickihird also @WildlifeTrusts

Stanford Blade, PhD KSLA
@drstanfordblade

Deputy Director General - Research & Innovation | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - Asia & Africa | https://www.icrisat.org | Intl Fellow - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture | QEII Platinum Jubilee Medal

Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University
@beps-bangor

Updates from the Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology (BEPs) group at Bangor University. https://www.bangor.ac.uk/sens/beps-at-bangor

wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour

The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday. Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week. The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants! Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/