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Looking forward to #Cereals2025 - come and see our latest #oat and #FabaBean varieties from the @ibers.bsky.social breeding programmes and discuss intercropping results from the #EUHorizon projects CropDiva and Legendary

Donal Murphy-Bokern introducing the concept of the #HorizonEU #LegumeGeneration project and the @legumehub.bsky.social to the @aabiologists.bsky.social conference on #Legumes in Science in Practice.

Thought provoking talk by @jerryalford.bsky.social from @thesoilassociation.bsky.social on reducing the barriers to the adoption of intercropping in the U.K. highlighting results from farmer led research at the @aabiologists.bsky.social Legume Science and Practice conference

Excellent start to the @aabiologists.bsky.social conference on Legumes in Science and Practice with @louisedye.bsky.social on ‘How do we people to eat more legumes’

@nicolaprandall.bsky.social

Excellent talk on flower margins to deliver ecosystem services by Todd Jenkins from @harperadamsuni.bsky.social at the CropDiva #agrobiodiversity symposium in Lleida #H2020

Excellent to meet up with Charlene Wight from AAFC Ottawa at the CropDiva Agrobiodiversity Conference in Lleida an
#oats #agrobiodiversity #EUH2020 @ibers.bsky.social

Every Monday we host our weekly Departmental Seminar! 🧬

Location: Edward Llwyd 1.16 or DM us for a Teams link

Today's speaker: Dónall Cross on "Characterising
malaria vector mosquitoes in western Zambia"

We extend our welcome to everyone!

Pob dydd Llun rydym yn cynnal ein Seminar adrannol wythnosol!🧬

Lleoliad: Edward Llwyd 1.16 neu DM-iwch am ddolen Teams
Siaradwr heddiw: Dónall Cross ar "Characterising
malaria vector mosquitoes in western Zambia"

Croeso i bawb!

And the winner of this year’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is … Helsinki chemist’s food-themed frolic wins overall honors as other awards recognize physics laser raps, swaying leaf cells, and collective dancing takeovers

Plant immunity wins the biology category prize for Dance Your PhD and capsaicin from chilli peppers forms the basis for the Overall winner!
www.science.org/content/arti...
#PlantScience

Wishcycling: how ‘eco-friendly’ labels confuse shoppers and make recycling less effective How misleading marketing leads to greenwashed consumer behaviour and ineffective recycling of waste streams.

How misleading marketing leads to greenwashed consumer behaviour and ineffective recycling of waste streams.

Farewell poem from #monogram2025 conference poet @claredonnison.bsky.social Safe travels from @aberuni.bsky.social everyone. Hope to see you back @ibers.bsky.social soon @monogram-uk.bsky.social

#Monogram2025 comes to an end after an excellent three days of wide ranging talks, posters, discussions, sunshine and poetry! Alison Kingston Smith from @ibers.bsky.social thanking everyone who came to @aberuni.bsky.social for this wonderful event

Excellent talks by the the two Monogram Early Career Excellence Award PhD winners @katielong.bsky.social and Isabel Faci-Gomez both from @johninnescentre.bsky.social at #monogram2025 hosted by @ibers.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social @monogram-uk.bsky.social

The future of wheat is hybrid? Fascinating talk by Nick Bird from @kwsgroup.bsky.social at #monogram2025 here at @aberuni.bsky.social
@monogram-uk.bsky.social

Thought provoking talk from Stéphanie Swarbreck from @niab-uk.bsky.social at #Monogram2025 on nitrogen responsiveness of cereals @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Great talks by Indi Lacey from @universityofleeds.bsky.social on speed vernalisation of cereals and from Derpak Kumar from @leibnizipk.bsky.social on hybrid wheat this afternoon #monogram2025 @monogram-uk.bsky.social

Excellent talks in the #monogram2025 crop genomics session from Martin Mascher of @leibnizipk.bsky.social and @surbhigrewal.bsky.social from Nottingham University
@monogram-uk.bsky.social

Excellent start to day 2 of #monogram2025 in Aberystwyth with Lorna McAusland from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social presenting on photosynthetic heat acclimation @ibers.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social

@monogram-uk.bsky.social meeting 2025 continues

Excellent start to #Monogram2025 @aberuni.bsky.social with Janneke Balk from @johninnescentre.bsky.social giving the Rank Prize Keynote talk on mineral biofortification of crops
@monogram-uk.bsky.social

This line chart shows the growth of global cereal production, yield, population, and land use for cereal production from 1961 to 2023, indexed to 1961. Cereal production increased by 250%, surpassing population growth, which rose by 164%. Cereal yield grew significantly, while land use for cereal production remained nearly constant. The chart highlights that higher yields, not expanded land use, drove most of the production increase. Data sources: UN FAO (2023), UN WPP (2024).

Global cereal production has grown much faster than population in the last half-century

There is no scientific evidence for any meaningful climate benefits of "grass-fed" beef, as many people, including myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, have long been saying. This news study in PNAS further strengthens this point.
newrepublic.com/article/1637...

A bumblebee dusted in yellow pollen sitting in a greyed-out flower. Text reads: 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began.

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨

The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔

Read on: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumb...

Excellent talk by @charlotte-white.bsky.social from ADAS on rooting traits in Fava bean at the UKLRC conference at @rbgkew.bsky.social #legumes

Noam Chayut kicking off the U.K. Legume Research Community conference at @rbgkew.bsky.social with an excellent talk on pea genetic resources @johninnescentre.bsky.social

A very useful article on plant breeders rights

Conference - Monogram CONFERENCE Monogram 2025 at Aberystwyth Monogram 2025 at Aberystwyth University from April 7th to April 10th, 2025. Registration now open. Deadline 31st January 2025 for: Registration, Abstract submis...

📣The registration for the Monogram UK
Conference 2025 is now open!

The Conference brings together researchers from both academia and industry working on small grain cereals and grasses.

This year includes a ECR workshop

Info and registration:

monogram.ac.uk/index.php/co...

The CROPDIVA and LEGENDARY project groups are hosting a symposium on "Agrobiodiversity Along the Value Chain" in Lleida, Spain, from 20-22 May, 2025. The deadline for abstracts has just been extended until February 15th! www.agrobiodiversityalongthevaluechain.eu