Added value and resilience
Lead Research Organisation:
John Innes Centre
Department Name: Contracts Office
Abstract
Food and nutrition security requires safe access to affordable and nutritious food supplies. We aim to enhance grain quality for human health, combat non-communicable diet-related diseases and improve the resilience of wheat production systems to biotic stresses. We will address two topics, with shared objectives across the Desiging Future Wheat BBSRC Strategic Progamme (DFW) and other Rothamsted Research, John Innes Centre, Earlham Institute, Quadram Institute Bioscience and NIAB programmes. Both exploit previous BBSRC investments in germplasm resources and the latest genomic developments, to understand and manipulate the genes and pathways defining wheat grain composition and host resistance/susceptibility to pathogens/pests. We will dissect a range of traits exploiting the germplasm and other resources developed within DFW. These traits include resistance to a range of pathogens and pests (such as rusts, Zymoseptoria, Fusarium, take-all, mildew, eyespot and aphids) and finally the quantity and quality of starch, dietary fibre and minerals in grain.
Organisations
- John Innes Centre, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- BASF (Collaboration)
- Limagrain (Collaboration)
- Punjab Aricultural University (Collaboration)
- The University of Passo Fundo (Collaboration)
- Drayton Manor Park (Collaboration)
- University College Dublin, Ireland (Collaboration)
- Secobra Recherche (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Collaboration)
- Novogene Corporation (Collaboration)
- KWS UK (Collaboration)
- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- 2Blades Foundation (Collaboration)
- University of Maryland, United States (Collaboration)
- University of Minnesota, United States (Collaboration)
- Bayer (Collaboration)
- Earlham Institute, NORWICH (Collaboration)
- Ilam University (Collaboration)
- RAGT Seeds (Collaboration)
- National Inst of Agricultural Botany (Collaboration)
- HarvestPlus (Collaboration)
- QIAGEN Lake Constance GmbH (Collaboration)
- Scotch Whisky Research Institute, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Archer Daniels Midland (Collaboration)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- Kansas State University, United States (Collaboration)
Publications
Anderson JP
(2017)
Comparative secretome analysis of Rhizoctonia solani isolates with different host ranges reveals unique secretomes and cell death inducing effectors.
in Scientific reports
Arora S
(2019)
Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.
in Nature biotechnology
Bansal M
(2020)
Aegilops umbellulata introgression carrying leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes Lr76 and Yr70 located to 9.47-Mb region on 5DS telomeric end through a combination of chromosome sorting and sequencing.
in TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik
Beccari G
(2018)
Development of three fusarium crown rot causal agents and systemic translocation of deoxynivalenol following stem base infection of soft wheat
in Plant Pathology
Benedetta Saccomanno
(2019)
Poster: Wheat lacking B-type starch granules for improved functionality
Bevan M
(2017)
Genomic innovation for crop improvement
in Nature
Borrill P
(2017)
Genome-Wide Sequence and Expression Analysis of the NAC Transcription Factor Family in Polyploid Wheat.
in G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
Boshoff W
(2020)
First Report of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici , Causing Stripe Rust of Wheat, in Zimbabwe
in Plant Disease
Bueno-Sancho V
(2017)
Pathogenomic Analysis of Wheat Yellow Rust Lineages Detects Seasonal Variation and Host Specificity.
in Genome biology and evolution
Bueno-Sancho V
(2019)
K-PIE: using K-means algorithm for Percentage Infection symptoms Estimation
in Zenodo
| Title | 2nd Prize in Engaging Images Art Competition, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts |
| Description | Josh Waites' artwork based on the MARPLE wheat rust diagnostic tool from the @Saunders_Lab came second in the Engaging Images Art Competition. Due to MARPLE's use in Ethiopia, he painted it in a traditional orthodox Ethiopian art style. It was displayed at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts during the month of December 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Not aware of any. |
| URL | https://twitter.com/JoshOWaites/status/1203311578571059200 |
| Title | Blog on "Wild wheat, plant genomics, and food security" |
| Description | I wrote a blog for the Global Engage conference "Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress: Europe". |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The blog was well received and widely tweeted. |
| URL | http://www.global-engage.com/agricultural-biotechnology/wild-wheat-plant-genomics-and-food-security/ |
| Title | MARPLE diagnostics hub development in Ethiopia |
| Description | We interviewed a number of researchers from each of the five MARPLE diagnostics hubs being established in Ethiopia |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The video has been extremely useful for promoting the project and thereby assisiting in exploring opportunities for follow-on funding. |
| Title | Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase (MARPLE) diagnostics: Impact interviews |
| Description | We interviewed a number of researchers in Ethiopia to capture the impact of our methodology development. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The video has been extremely useful for promoting the methodology and thereby in achieving follow-on funding. |
| Title | Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase (MARPLE) diagnostics: pipeline artwork |
| Description | We developed a graphic to illustrate our new methodology and make it easier for partners to follow. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | This artwork has been utilised to convey the steps of the pipeline with partners and demonstrate its simplicity. |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/marple-diagnostics/ |
| Description | During the year, we have provided BBSRC Swindon office with a google.doc site, which lists all our DFW outputs (including data access sites, germplasm generated, datasets generated, publications, and public engagement activities as they occur). This document is updated by us on a regular basis. All the objectives during the DFW reporting period have been met, and many exceeded. All the committees within DFW are running well including the key data coordination task force (DCTF) and Breeder's toolkit committees, both with WP2 representation. 1) We have optimised our k-mer-based genome-wide association genetics platform to work on large datasets, including the whole genome shotgun-sequenced panel of 260 Aegilops tauschii accessions (~15 Tb of data). This pipeline is three orders of magnitude faster than conventional SNP-based approaches and allows trait-genotype correlations to be determined in less than 2 hours on the JIC high performance compute cluster. In collaboration with DFW WP1, WP2 and WP3 colleagues, as well as external collaborators, we have phenotyped the panel for a range of traits and obtained clear associations for disease resistance (stripe rust, leaf rust, stem rust, powdery mildew, and wheat blast), pest tolerance (hessian fly), leaf trichome density, tiller number, flowering time, spikelet number, and root length. The associations are typically defined by discrete peaks (linkage disequilibrium blocks) of ~200 kb with 4-6 candidate genes. As an exemplar, we have functionally confirmed by VIGS (in collaboration with Beat Keller, University of Zurich) a wheat powdery mildew resistance gene which does not encode a typical nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) gene. This demonstrates our ability to identify non-canonical immune receptors compared to our previous association mapping platform (Arora et al., 2019, Nature Biotechnology 37:139-143), which was biased by having used reduced representation sequencing for NLR-encoding genes. We have cloned three stem rust resistance (Sr) genes including Sr43 (from a wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum introgression line), and SrA and SrB (from Aegilops sharonensis). Remarkably, none of these encode canonical NLR genes. 2) We have used a bi-parental mapping population to define a small region of chromosome 5A in a wheat line that confers both resistance to Fusarium head blight and resistance to the fungal mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) which acts as a virulence factor in wheat. Candidate genes for the resistance have been identified and work continues to identify the gene(s) responsible. 3) Wheat blast is a newly emerging threat to wheat production in warmer parts of the world, including major breadbasket regions such as India. The disease is through to have arisen via a host jump from wild grass species when the fungus overcame two resistance genes (RWT3 and RWT4). We previously reported that we had identified the first resistance gene (Rwt4) in an the sequenced Aegilops tauschii panel against the wheat blast pathogen. We have recently identified RWT3 in a panel of wheat varieties. Markers to these two resistances are being developed to enable breeders to select for them and prevent additional host jumps in regions not currently afflicted by this disease. 4) Transgenic lines of wheat were made containing a vector designed to over-express a gene, BGC1 that controls starch granule initiation. Lines were recovered that had starch granule-size distributions in their grains that were different from normal. Lines with either increased or decreased numbers of small starch granules were recovered. This finding adds to our understanding of the control of starch granule size in grains (which impacts on the end uses of grains and flour). 5) The embryo (or germ) in wheat accounts for a small proportion of grain weight (2-3%), but it is a concentrated source of several essential nutrients (iron, zinc), vitamins, amino acids and phytochemicals that are beneficial for human and animal health and that are lacking or less abundant in the other grain components (husk, starchy endosperm). Mutant grains of a range of cereals with larger than normal embryos have been shown to be nutritionally enhanced. We have successfully transferred a large-embryo trait (due to mutational knockout of a gene called LYS3) from barley to wheat using TILLING mutants of Cadenza. The resulting grains with large embryos and normal-embryo control lines are being bulked up for studies of their nutritional properties. 6) We have identified a number of potential Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) susceptibility factors in wheat using an unconventional field-based approach. Pst-infected field samples were collected, RNA-seq analysis undertaken using our "field pathogenomics" approach, and gene expression profiles compared between wheat varieties with differing levels of susceptibility to Pst infection. This has started to uncover new insight into how Pst manipulates its host during the infection process. For instance, one gene we thoroughly characterised encodes a branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase (TaBCAT1). TaBCAT1 tetraploid double TILLING mutant lines were created that showed a significant increase in resistance to Pst infection and infection by the closely related wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici). Further functional characterisation suggests that TaBCAT1 regulates amino acid homeostasis in the cell and by doing so, coordinates the activation of salicylic acid-mediated defence responses in wheat. This analysis is currently being submitted for publication and discussions have been initiated with multiple breeding companies due to its role as a potential susceptibility factor that could be manipulated to provide durable resistance to Pst. 7) We are continuing to integrate our MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) diagnostics platform for near real-time, strain level diagnostics of Pst within the wheat rust early warning system in Ethiopia. Our partnership (JIC, CIMMYT and EIAR) and integration of this system with disease forecasting programmes has positioned Ethiopia as a world leader in pathogen diagnostics and forecasting. Our work that led to the creation of MARPLE diagnostics was recognised by receipt of the Innovator of the Year award for international impact from BBSRC in 2019. This award and support of the CGIAR Inspire Challenge and the Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project is now facilitating the development of five MARPLE hubs at strategic locations across the major wheat growing regions in Ethiopia. Building on initial trials of the methodology in 2018, we carried out a more detailed workshop in-country in 2019 and visited all five MARPLE hubs. We now have a two-month training program planned for 2020 to support the adoption of the methodology, with assistance from four BBSRC-funded PhD students as part of their professional training. Furthermore, we are supporting the integration of MARPLE diagnostics into the UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) and adoption more widely of the methodology by surveillance labs across Europe. 8) We have undertaken the first survey of common barberry for rust infection across the UK and identified many sites where barberry infected by stem rust can be found adjacent to cereal crops. Stem and yellow rust pathogens require two hosts to complete their life cycles, undertaking asexual reproduction on cereals and sexual reproduction on Berberis (including Mahonia), where recombination can lead to emergence of novel genotypes. Eradication of common barberry (B. vulgaris) in the UK drove stem rust to almost complete extinction. However, over the past decade, barberry planting has reinitiated and is advancing in many major wheat growing regions. Part of this is due to active re-planting to enhance habitat for the endangered Barberry Carpet moth (Pareulype berberata), whose current only known food source is B. vulgaris. We have also initiated an iCASE studentship (start date Oct-19) to evaluate alternate food sources, with the aim of maintaining habitat and thereby biodiversity without posing any increased risk to cereal production, if wheat stem rust does re-emerge in the UK. Furthermore, integrating biological data and mathematical modelling we have started to develop a risk model to help guide future re-planting efforts and identify potential high-risk hedgerows that may need monitoring in future. |
| Exploitation Route | We are working with WP3 and the Breeder's Toolkit to ensure that key findings are being taken forward. Many of the key findings above have collaborative components with industry to ensure rapid uptake of the results. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Retail |
| URL | https://designingfuturewheat.org.uk/ |
| Description | The ISP is in its third year and as such the finding are currently being taken up by breeders and industry. We have had several in depth meeting with representatives of the major UK and European breeding companies to discuss the latest developments and germplasm which will become available over the next few years. To ensure that findings are translated into outcomes we work with breeders to develop markers for selection and also transfer pre-breeding germplasm which they can take forward without the need for extensive preliminary work for evaluation. We constantly engage with other actors in the agricultural, food and drinks industry to make them aware of our current advances and identify opportunities. We expect that several of the key findings reported in the previous section will be taken up in different forms by industry. (1) In a multi-partner consortium led by our pathway-to-impact partner the 2Blades Foundation (www.2blades.org) and involving CSIRO (Australia) and the University of Minnesota (USA), two of our previously cloned wheat stem rust resistance (Sr) genes (Sr22 and Sr45; Steuernagel et al., 2016, Nature Biotechnology 34:652) have been engineered into a multi-Sr gene stack containing five Sr genes, transformed into bread wheat, and field trialled in Minnesota, USA. The stack was found to confer complete immunity to stem rust during the 2018 and 2019 seasons (http://2blades.org/2019/03/12/wheat-lines-from-2blades-csiro-and-umn-exhibit-exceptional-stem-rust-resistance-in-the-field/). (2) We are selecting TILLING mutants of Cadenza and/or Kronos that lack genes (GE, LE, BIGE1) known to control embryo size in other species (maize and rice). We will test the resulting grains for enhancement of nutritional properties and examine the grains and plants for any detrimental effects on grain weight or agronomic performance. (3) MARPLE diagnostics, capacity building across three locations: (i) In Ethiopia, our partnership with CIMMYT and EIAR has achieved significant impact, that over the past year includes detailing training of EIAR scientists during a three-day workshop led by JIC in November 2019 at the EIAR Holeta hub. In preparation of rolling out the methodology to four additional hubs (led by EIAR scientisits), MARPLE kits are now in-country and a two-month training schedule arranged for July-August 2020. This will provide rapid diagnostic capacity throughout the main wheat growing regions and permit sentinel monitoring of yellow rust races on an annual basis. Through this project, Ethiopia has now become the lead nation in Africa with a robust, rapid monitoring system for important transboundary diseases. Having accurate and rapid yellow rust diagnostics will benefit not only 5 million wheat-dependent farming families in country, but also wheat farmers in the entire region. (ii) To promote uptake of the methodology across disease surveillance labs in Europe we provided a four-day training course in MARPLE diagnostics through the RustWatch program (https://agro.au.dk/forskning/projekter/rustwatch/) in November 2019. (iii) To ensure the UK specifically benefits from the development of this methodology we are also working closely with the UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) to support its integration and thereby equip the UK with the latest genomic-based pathogen surveillance tools. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Chemicals |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | A member of the Science Board of the G20 wheat initiative set up by the G20 agricultural ministers to coordinate wheat research across the G20 countries |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | By coordinating wheat research to address food security issues across the G20 countries, it makes more effect use of the funding by G20 government agencies |
| Description | AHDB |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Barberry Highways Project |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Providing further information regarding the role of barberry in potentially escalating cereal rust diversity has guided plans for future barberry re-planting efforts that now take into account proximity to cereal fields. |
| Description | Bioinformatics Community of Practice (Eight-month training at BecA) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics Community of Practice (Eight-month training at BecA) |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/bioinformatics-community-practice/ |
| Description | Bioinformatics Training Workshop pre-Monogram |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics Traning Workshop pre-Monogram |
| Description | Bioinformatics for Plant Biology Course 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Bioinformatics for Plant Biology Course 2018 |
| Description | Food safety |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| Description | PhD lecture on Wheat genomics to Catholic University in Chile |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | PhD lecture on Wheat genomics |
| Description | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Description | UK Global Food Security Science Advisory Board |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/ |
| Description | UKCPVS steering committee |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Undergraduate course UEA MSc |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Undergraduate course UEA MSc |
| Description | Visit by Green Party Norfolk County Councillors |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Workshop on Soft Skills, BGRI Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Workshop on Soft Skills, BGRI Meeting |
| Description | 18-BTT: Induction of double haploids in wheat using CENH3 mutants and genome editing |
| Amount | £222,680 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S020888/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | BBSRC - ISCF Agri-food Technology Catalyst |
| Amount | £29,943 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/SCA/JIC/17 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | BBSRC NRP-DTP iCASE |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | BBSRC iCASE |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | BlessT: Wheat lacking B-type starch granules for improved functionality. |
| Amount | £211,824 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/R019746/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | CGIAR Inspire challenge |
| Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | CGIAR |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | CGIAR: - CGIAR Inspire challenge scale up |
| Amount | $250,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | CGIAR |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2020 |
| Description | Cloning and characterization of Sr43 and stem rust resistance genes SrA, SrB, SrC and SrD from Aegilops sharonensis |
| Amount | £100,165 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Two Blades Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Developing new tools for interrogating cereal invaders |
| Amount | £3,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Biology (RSB) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2018 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | Developing nutrient-enriched cereal grains with large embryos. |
| Amount | £443,781 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T002905/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Genetic control of trichomes in Aegilops tauschii |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Genotype-based monitoring for fungicide resistance management |
| Amount | £11,213 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | Global Challenges Research Fund - Data and Resources |
| Amount | £897,694 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | Horizon 2020 |
| Amount | € 4,999,999 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 773311-2 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | ISCF-TFP-SA-JIC - Field trials of GM wheat and gene edited Brassicas |
| Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ISCF-TFP-SA-JIC |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | IWYP Call 2: Rooty-A root ideotype toolbox to support improved wheat yields |
| Amount | £151,462 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S012818/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | International Wheat Yield Partnership |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Investigation of conserved infection pathways in Puccinia species to identify novel targets for pathogen control |
| Amount | £300,951 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S011005/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Newton Institutional Links Grant |
| Amount | £299,973 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Newton Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | OWWC gene cloning |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Responsive Mode |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/P019072/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Safeguarding our daily bread from wheat rust diseases |
| Amount | £2,930 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | Strategic Training Award for Research Skills |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 02/2020 |
| Description | The role of the sexual cycle in escalating wheat rust diversity in the UK |
| Amount | £593,834 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S003975/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Using a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle a formidable foe - wheat stem rust |
| Amount | £3,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Biology (RSB) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Wheat floral organ size and its effects on grain size |
| Amount | £549,750 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S016945/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Title | Mobile And Real-time Plant disEase (MARPLE) diagnostics |
| Description | Capitalising on advances in sequencing technology we developed MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) diagnostics, the first operational system in the world using nanopore sequence technology for rapid diagnostics and surveillance of complex fungal pathogens in situ. Our partnership (JIC, CIMMYT and EIAR) and integration of the system with disease forecasting programmes has positioned Ethiopia as a world leader in pathogen diagnostics and forecasting. Generating results within 48 hours of field sampling, this new strategy is a revolution in plant disease diagnostics and will have far-reaching implications for how plant health threats are identified and tracked into the future. |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This new methodology opens up new opportunities for rapid diagnostic capacity for wheat yellow rust throughout the main wheat growing regions and permit sentinel monitoring of yellow rust races on an annual basis. Through this project, Ethiopia has now become the lead nation in Africa with a robust, rapid monitoring system for important transboundary diseases. |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/marple-diagnostics/ |
| Title | Paragon deletion mapping |
| Description | A panel of 2000 lines of gamma-ray irradiated Paragon spring wheat has been advanced to M4. DNA has been isolated from 650 lines and subjected to skim-sequencing to enable the rapid identification of lines carrying deletions in specific regions of the genome. Such lines are very valuable resources for defining regions containing genes controlling traits of interest and the function of gene clusters. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has allowed us to refine the region containing a gene of interest from one of over 31 Mbp, containing 274 high confidence genes to one containing less than 10 genes. The tool allows the rapid fine-mapping of regions of interest with minimal need for marker development. |
| Title | Field pathogenomics web interface |
| Description | We have formulated a web interface to host all the data that is generated under our "field pathogenomics" pathogen surveillance project in a format that is accessible to a wide audience. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The web interface is still under development but we are already getting positive responses from our industrial collaborators about the ability to use this to disseminate the data generated within our IPA. |
| URL | https://wheatis.tgac.ac.uk/yellowrust-map/ |
| Title | Nextstrain for wheat yellow rust |
| Description | The wheat yellow rust fungus (Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici) is the first plant pathogen to be added to an online open source platform, Nextstrain.org. The interactive data visualization tool displays genome data by reconstructing a "phylogeny" that illustrates the differences in the genetic makeup of bacterial, viral and fungal strains. This assists researchers investigating how new pathogen strains emerge and spread. Our recent addition of the yellow rust pathogen grants researchers worldwide access to genetic data to study the disease. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The addition of Pst to the Nextstrain interface provides researchers the ability to easily study the diversity of strains on a global scale. |
| URL | https://nextstrain.org/community/saunderslab/PST |
| Title | Open Wild Wheat raw sequences |
| Description | We provide access to whole genome shotgun sequences of a genetically diverse panel of 151 accessions of Aegilops tauschii generated under the aegis of the Open Wild Wheat Consortium (www.openwildwheat.org). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have used the data to implement a 'shotgun' genome-wide association study (GWAS) pipeline for rapid gene discovery and identificaiton. Based on this, we have identified candidate genes for stem rust, wheat blast and trichome density. We have had very many requests from the community to implement this technology, and we expect it will fuel an exponential rise in cloned genes within the Triticeae. |
| URL | https://opendata.earlham.ac.uk/wheat/under_license/toronto/Wulff_2018-01-31_OWWC/ |
| Title | PolyMarker |
| Description | Update on Primer design for polyploid species |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp_wheat/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi |
| Title | Wheat Expression |
| Description | The majority of RNA-seq expression studies in plants remain underutilised and inaccessible due to the use of disparate transcriptome references and the lack of skills and resources to analyse and visualise this data. We have developed expVIP, an expression Visualisation and Integration Platform, which allows easy analysis of RNA-seq data combined with an intuitive and interactive interface. Users can analyse public and user-specified datasets with minimal bioinformatics knowledge using the expVIP virtual machine. This generates a custom web browser to visualise, sort and filter the RNA-seq data and provides outputs for differential gene expression analysis. We demonstrate expVIP's suitability for polyploid crops and evaluate its performance across a range of biologically-relevant scenarios. To exemplify its use in crop research we developed a flexible wheat expression browser (www.wheat-expression.com) which can be expanded with user-generated data in a local virtual machine environment. The open-access expVIP platform will facilitate the analysis of gene expression data from a wide variety of species by enabling the easy integration, visualisation and comparison of RNA-seq data across experiments. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database provides open access to over 400 RNAseq studies in wheat and the underlying algorithms are all available to adapt to any species with a reference genome. Over 11,000 sessions from >5,000 and >50,000 pageviews |
| URL | http://www.wheat-expression.com |
| Title | Wheat TILLING in EnsemblPlants |
| Description | Update of sequenced mutants and coordination with ensemblPlants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | over 7000 mutants distributed from over 300 orders |
| URL | http://plants.ensembl.org/Triticum_aestivum/Info/Index |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | This website provides background information and practical resources to help both budding wheat scientists as well as researchers looking to expand their work into wheat. There is a need to improve crops to feed the world's growing population with the backdrop of climate change. Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge. However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and cannot substitute teaching aids. This is also true for more complex topics such as the genomics aspect of wheat. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | >4,500 sessions from >2,700 users |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Title | Wheat Training |
| Description | Wheat Training website to help new researchers engage with wheat |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| Title | eFP expression browser |
| Description | Expression browser for wheat data |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp_wheat/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi |
| Description | 10 Pangenome Project |
| Organisation | University of Saskatchewan |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration for 10 pangenome project |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration for 10 pangenome project |
| Impact | Sequencing of 10 wheat varieties |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | A meeting between CIMMYT and DFW funded by BMGF to discuss collaboration projects |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I organised a meeting funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation brought together members of the BBSRC's coordinated wheat programme (Designing Future Wheat) with members of CIMMYT (who breed wheat for the resource poor in the developing world), discuss potential opportunities for interaction. These opportunities are taken forward by writing proposals for Newton , GCRF or IWYP funding calls |
| Collaborator Contribution | See above |
| Impact | This interaction is still ongoing between members of BBSRC's coordinated wheat programme (Designing Future Wheat) and researchers within CIMMYT with proposals being written for IWYP and Newton calls |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | ACACIA |
| Organisation | International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
| Country | Kenya |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | JIC lead to develop ACACIA (Alliance for Accelerated Crop Improvement in Africa) |
| Collaborator Contribution | African partners for ACACIA |
| Impact | Training, workshops, staff exchange |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ADM |
| Organisation | Archer Daniels Midland |
| Department | ADM milling |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Wheat lines from our research project have been supplieid to the research groups of ADM Millers in UK and USA for in-house testing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ADM Millers will test the functional properties of our wheat lines and provide feedback. |
| Impact | The results of testing are not yet available but will include baking trials and wet milling trials. Multidiciplinary: wheat genetics, biochemistry, grain quality, milling and baking. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | BASF |
| Organisation | BASF |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge on pathways involved in resistance and susceptibility to Fusarium head blight (FHB). Knowledge on the use of model plant species to study FHB |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge on fungicide testing systems and high through put phenotyping |
| Impact | Two iCASE studentships |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Bayer |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Department | Bayer CropScience Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Wheat genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat breeding and molecular knowledge |
| Impact | joint projects |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Collaboration with Jonathan Jones funded by Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation via 2Blades Foundation |
| Organisation | The Sainsbury Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have used RenSeq to genotype 200 Watkins wheat landrace lines. |
| Collaborator Contribution | My colleague Jonathan Jones kindly offered to collaborate on the sequence-configuration of our Watkins wheat landrace panel by paying for RenSeq genotyping of 100 lines. |
| Impact | This collaboration has allowed us to increase the size of our sequence configured panel from 200 to 300. This will improve the resolution wich which we can discover and clone resistance genes in the panel. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FOF partner: KWS |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided research, new germplasm and biochemical and genetic analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | KWS have provided staff, equipment and field trials. They have also provided technical and business training to the Innovation Fellow. |
| Impact | The project is on-going. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FOF partner: Limagrain |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided the research, new germplasm and the biochemical and genetic analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Limagrain have provided staff, equipment and field trials. They have also provided technical and business training to the Innovation Fellow. |
| Impact | The work is still on-going. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FOF partner: RAGT |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | we have provided research, new germplasm and biochemical and genetic analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | RAGT have provided staff, equipment and field trials. They have also provided technical and business training to the Innovation Fellow. |
| Impact | the project is still on-going |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FOF partner: Scottish Whiskey Research organisation |
| Organisation | Scotch Whisky Research Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have provided reserach, new germplasm and biochemical and genetic analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SWRI have provided staff and specialist equipment. They have also provided technical and business training to the Innovation Fellow. |
| Impact | The project is on-going. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | HarvestPlus |
| Organisation | HarvestPlus |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Enhancing wheat micronutrient content |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowhow and funding |
| Impact | Enhanced Fe wheat being developed |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | KWS |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Breeder know how and germplasm |
| Impact | joint projects |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Limagrain |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Germplasm and breeder know-how |
| Impact | Phd Studentship, field trails, among others |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Limagrain wheat blast |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | knowledge on genetics of wheat blast resistance |
| Collaborator Contribution | germplasm |
| Impact | iCASE studentship funded |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | 2Blades Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Zentrum München |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Ilam University |
| Country | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Kansas State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Novogene Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Punjab Aricultural University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | QIAGEN Lake Constance GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Department | Syngenta Crop Protection |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of California |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Punjab Agricultural University |
| Organisation | Punjab Aricultural University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Know how on wheat genomics and genetics, training. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Gernplasm, local knowledge |
| Impact | Have helped partners implement marker technology. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | RAGT |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge of genetics of disease resistance in wheat including new sources of resistance and associated genetic markers |
| Collaborator Contribution | germplasm, DNA marker information, breeder know-how |
| Impact | iCASE PhD studentship and scientific publications |
| Description | RAGT |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat germplasm and know how |
| Impact | Shared projects |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Secobra |
| Organisation | Secobra Recherche |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | information on the relationship between plant height and disease susceptibility |
| Collaborator Contribution | Germplasm and field trial testing of populations |
| Impact | new sources of resistance to Fusarium head blight |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Syngenta |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Have shared germplasm for use in their breeding programmes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Have taken up JIC IP to use in their breeding operations. |
| Impact | This has just started. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | UCD |
| Organisation | University College Dublin |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | tools for using model plant species to investigate genetics of resistance to root diseases |
| Collaborator Contribution | coordinating programme and liaising with the European Commission |
| Impact | Identification of candidate genes involved in resistance to root diseases in cereals |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | University of Passo Fundo |
| Organisation | The University of Passo Fundo |
| Country | Brazil |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | information on genetic basis of resistance to wheat blast |
| Collaborator Contribution | information on research tools and data relating to specific resistances |
| Impact | student secondment to my laboratory for nine months |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASE studentship with Drayton Manor Park |
| Organisation | Drayton Manor Park |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This partnership involves the appointment of an iCASE student who is based in my lab and carrying out collaborative research with Drayton Manor Park. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partner is providing expertise in conservation biology and land to undertake plantings. |
| Impact | The studentship has just begun, so no measurable outcomes at this stage. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | GENES ASSOCIATED WITH RESISTANCE TO WHEAT YELLOW RUST |
| Description | The invention relates to genes associated with disease resistance in plants. According to an aspect of the invention is provided an isolated nucleic acid encoding a nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR) polypeptide comprising a zinc-finger BED domain, wherein expression of the NLR polypeptide in a plant confers or enhances resistance of the plant to a fungus, for example wheat yellow (stripe) rust fungus Puccinia striiformisi f. sp. tritici. |
| IP Reference | WO2019197408 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2019 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Wheat yellow rust resistance genes. |
| Title | PLANT GENE FOR GRANULE DEVELOPMENT, MODIFIED CEREAL PLANTS AND GRAIN |
| Description | There is provided a plant of domesticated Triticeae species able to produce a grain with a modified (i.e. decreased or increased) level of B-type granules within the endosperm relative to the unmodified form of the grain. The level of B-type granules can be assessed by number or content by weight or volume. Whilst the level of B- type granule within the grain can be increased or decreased, optionally the grain contains substantially no B-type granules. The plant can contain a Bcg-1 gene which is genetically modified. The plant of domesticated Triticeae species can be common wheat, barley, rye, durum wheat, spelt wheat, triticale, einkorn wheat or oat. Grain produced the plants, and flour and compositions of matter formed from the grain are also provided. |
| IP Reference | WO2017137907 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2017 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | We have developed a non-transgenic route to engineer B-granule less wheat. |
| Title | Plant gene for granule development, modified cereal plants and grain. |
| Description | A method was described for the modification of the size of starch granules in domesticated Triticeae and Avenae. Specifically, the method relates to the modification of the number of granule initiations per plastid in grain. |
| IP Reference | US20190233838A1 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2018 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | The patent was useful in discussions about commercialization opportunities with various industrial groups involved in the growth, breeding and/or use of cereal grains. |
| Title | AgRenSeq - GitHub |
| Description | AgRenSeq is a pipeline to identify candidate resistance (R) genes in plants directly from a diversity panel. The diversity panel needs to be sequenced (R gene enrichment sequencing - RenSeq) and phenotyped. Phenotype scores need to be converted to AgRenSeq scores that assign positive values to resistance and negative values to suscetibility. An intermediate phenotype should have an AgRenSeq score close to zero. For RenSeq you will need a bait library that targets R genes in your plant species. A bait library for Aegilops tauschii can be found here. We reccomend Arbor biosciences for synthesis of baits. They also offer the enrichment service. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Requests for collaboration from academia and industry. |
| Title | Expression Browser in wheat |
| Description | Expression browser for wheat gene expression data |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | New biology |
| URL | http://www.wheat-expression.com/ |
| Title | K-PIE: using K-means algorithm for Percentage Infection symptoms Estimation |
| Description | The K-means algorithm is one of the most effective clustering methods that has been widely used in plant disease detection. Herein, we developed a script termed K-PIE (K-means algorithm for Percentage Infection symptoms Estimation) that utilises the k-means algorithm to analyse images of both yellow and stem rust infected wheat leaves to estimate the percentage of disease symptoms based on colour analysis. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This method has been adopted for rapid quantification of disease symtoms. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/3584148#.XmISpy2caUk |
| Description | "Building resilience against crop diseases: a global surveillance system (GSS)" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rockefeller funded workshop to discuss the development of a global pathogen surveillance system |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 14th WGIN Stakeholders' Meeting was held at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden on November 30th 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The meeting was organised by the Defra Wheat Genetic Improvement Network for the purpose of Improving the resilience of the wheat crop through genetics and targeted trait analysis. The meeting was attended by research scientists, breeders and industrialists interested in growing and using wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.wgin.org.uk/ |
| Description | ABC (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Descifrado el genoma del trigo, el cereal más cultivado del planeta |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://abci-descifrado-genoma-trigo-cereal-mas-cultivado-planeta-201808162031_noticia.html |
| Description | AHDB Fusarium ratings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to act an expert/consultant in Fusarium head blight (FHB) to provide guidance to AHDB on the appropriate testing systems and assessment systems required for determining the FHB resistance ratings for UK wheat varieties that enter the Recommended List. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AHDB Pch1 project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The latest findings relating to eyespot resistance of wheat were provided to a panel from AHDB and selected scientists. We have yet to receive formal feedback but the panel were impressed by the progress being made and the potential significance of new resistances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AHDB presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of knowledge on genes controlling eyespot resistance and association with yield penalty and increased grain protein |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | AHDB press release: Wheat stem rust outbreaks in Europe fuel industry collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | AHDB press release |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Agricultural Industries Confederation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Agribusiness Meeting: A step change in plant breeding to achieve a UK competitive advantage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Annual Science Meeting 2018, JIC and TSL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to give an update of my work at the JIC and TSL Annual Science Meeting 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Australian, UK scientists solve 30-year wheat rust genetics puzzle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uos-aus082418.php |
| Description | BASF visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to BASF scientists involved in plant protection and biotechnology on current research on fusarium head blight and opportunities for collaboration with scientists at JIC across a broad spectrum of plant and microbial research relevant to the area of crop protection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBC News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Wheat gene map to help feed the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45173968 |
| Description | BBC World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | BBC World: wheat genome (Pallab Ghosh) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBSRC Food Priming Partnership Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BBSRC Food Priming Partnership Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBSRC UK:Turkey Wheat Improvement Workshop Konya and Cappadocia, 23-27 May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the workshop was to bring together UK, CIMMYT, ICARDA and Turkish scientists to: 1. Discuss sources of variation in traits of common interest: drought and heat stress, yield potential, grain quality, resistance to Septoria and other pathogens 2. Share novel technologies for improving the efficiency of breeding, particularly applied genomics and markers and automated field phenomics. 3. Identify collaborative activities including exchanges of expertise and germplasm, providing training to students and young scientists and mechanisms for funding joint programmes. 4. Provide an opportunity for UK scientists to examine Turkish germplasm in the field, including traditional land races. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | BBSRC kickoff event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting to introduce BBSRC Fellows to one another and to the support and training for future leaders available to them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BGRI workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BGRI: Pathogenomics workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pathogenomics workshop outline: Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have provided new opportunities to integrate high-resolution genotype data into pathogen population studies. In this workshop, we will cover some of the bioinformatics analysis incorporated into the newly developed "Field Pathogenomics" technique. This approach utilizes next-generation sequence data to accelerate pathogen diagnostics, whilst providing detailed genotypic sub-structure of pathogen populations at an unprecedented resolution. Using next-generation sequence data generated from a selection of wheat yellow rust isolates, participants will determine how related they are to each other. To this aim, they will work stepwise through a series of exercises that will include (1) QC analysis of next-generation sequence data, (2) sequence alignments, (3) SNP calling, and (4) phylogenetic analysis. At the completion of the workshop participants will be familiar with next-generation sequence data and its potential for performing high-resolution population analyses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BIAZA Field Conservation and Native Species Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to raise awareness of the barberry carpet moth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BMGF Grand Challenges Meeting, Berlin, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to the BMGF Grand Challenges Meeting, in Berlin, Germany. This has since led to further interactions with the BMGF and DFID funded DGGW project, and a request for a workshop at the next DGGW meeting which will be held in the John Innes Centre in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Bangladesh wheat blast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with primary Bangladesh wheat researcher on wheat blast resistance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BarbRE project launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Annual project event to raise awareness of the role of Berberis in the life cycle of the wheat rust pathogens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/event/barberry-rust-explorer-launch-evening/ |
| Description | BarbRE website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To raise awareness of the project and as a forum to advertise our launch event we generated a project-focused website: https://barbre.co.uk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://barbre.co.uk |
| Description | Bioinformatics & Wheat Genomics workshop - South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To train partners in South Africa in bioinformatics skills. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog entry about research project (Wheat Side Story) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on research project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/wheat-side-story |
| Description | Borlaug Dialogue |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Bolaug Dialogue |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Breeder day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentations to invited individuals from the wheat breeding and food/feed beverage supply chain |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | Breeders Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The John Innes Centre holds an annual Breeders' Day that provides an opportunity to hear first-hand from our scientists about our science and how it impacts crop breeding and farming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CPM Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | CPM Magazine interview on wheat genome and genetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2018/08/21/genetics-hope-future-wheat/# |
| Description | Chairing wheat genetics symposium, Tuln, Austria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired a session of Wheat Genetic symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference organiser of PAG San Diego attracting 3800 plant and animal researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I am on the organising committee of the largest plant and animal ag genomics conference attracting some 3800 researchers, policy makers, industry etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008, |
| Description | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Core skills workshop for Bioinformatics Community of Practice |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cranfield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to give a lecture to MSc students on the Cranfield University bioinformatics course. I was asked to come back again in May for a two day visit to teach scientific soft skills for early career scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DBT-BBSRC Smart Agriculture Conclave |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | DBT-BBSRC Smart Agriculture Conclave |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | DFW Presentation to DEFRA chief science advisor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A discussion of the outcomes and impact of WISP and DFW programmes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Daily Mail Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Genetic make-up of wheat has been decoded for the first time: Scientists say it could lead to low allergy varieties and crops that need less water |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6068177/Genetic-make-wheat-decoded-time.html |
| Description | Dialogue with Drayton Manor regarding barberry carpet moth programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a formal meeting to raise awareness regarding the role of barberry in the wheat rust lifecycle. In addition, this led to a new research program developing as an outcome of these discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Discussion Norman Lamb, MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion Norman Lamb, MP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing and regulations with BSPB, Royal Society, UKPSF, breeders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion with Gov Office Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Gov Office Science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Discussions with Syngenta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussions on collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | DivSeek Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon at short notice to give a presentation at the DivSeek workshop on how to exploit germplasm collections for rapid trait identificaiton and deployment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dutch students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of work on importance of research on disease resistance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Eastern Daily Press |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | How Norwich scientists' wheat DNA breakthrough could help feed the world |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/john-innes-centre-norwich-wheat-genome-1-5655948 |
| Description | El Confidencial (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El pan del futuro ya está aquí: científicos secuencian los 107.891 genes del trigo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/ciencia/2018-08-16/secuencian-genoma-trigo-pan-futuro_1604... |
| Description | El Mundo (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El genoma del trigo harinero ayudará a crear variedades más resistentes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/ciencia/2018/08/16/5b75ab13468aeb3d7e8b458b.html |
| Description | El Pais (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | El genoma del alimento que da a la humanidad una de cada cinco calorías |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/08/16/ciencia/1534414224_631189.html |
| Description | Engaging Images Public Art and Poetry Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Image competition to inspire engagement with NRP scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | European Fusarium Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 200 delegates from across the globe attended the meeting. My presentation sparked many questions and further discussions on the implications of our findings for improving the resistance of wheat to FHB and reducing the risk of mycotoxins accumulating in grain and posing a threat to consumers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Exeter Uni: Forgotten crop pathogen may be about to return |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exeter Uni press release |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Exploring the science behind taste and flavour at Norwich Food and Drink Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Volunteer with British Science Association. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FOF steering group meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Grant holders and researchers met with steering group members from industry to discuss the route to market for the new wheat lines being developed. Also present were researchers from NIAB engaged in the development of related wheat lines (funded by designing future wheat 2.1 ISP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | FSOV |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discuss wheat disease resistance genetics with members of a consortium of French Breeding companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FSOV-Paris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with French breeders to discuss FSOV activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| Description | Farmers Weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists apply for GM wheat and Crispr brassica field trials |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/scientists-apply-for-gm-wheat-and-crispr-brassica-field-trials |
| Description | Farming Today |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Farming Today interview |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Food Ingreedients: "Speed cloning: Transforming crop disease protection with higher yielding, resilient "elite crops"" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online magazine "Food Ingredients" about protecting crops with cloned resistance genes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/speed-cloning-transforming-crop-disease-protection-with-hi... |
| Description | FoodFutures II |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A networking event with agri-tech and food industry representatives for University of Cambridge PhD students and Postdocs Was held at Clare College, Cambridge. The day was an excellent opportunity for Cambridge's early-career researchers to interact with industry representatives from ADAS, Buhler, Corteva Agriscience, Koppert, PepsiCo and more, hear about what these companies do, and learn about funding Cambridge has available for industry placements and collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Fusarium head blight RAGT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The potential of increasing resistance to Fusarium head blight by eliminating susceptibility factors rather than the conventional approach of introducing resistance factors was discussed at length. This approach stimulated much interest as a means to tackle a disease where there is a paucity of effecive resistance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GARNish27. "Spotlight on NIAB" June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison Bentley authored an article in GarNish that featured two BBSRC-funded projects from the Trafford lab: the B-granule project and the large-embryo project. The impact was publicity for NIAB research in general and for the two BBSRC-funded projects in particular. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Garnet York 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Garnet York 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Gatbsy Plant Science Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Can wheat genomics help alleviate food insecurity? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Gates Grand Challenges Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to take part in discussion regarding the future of pathogen surveillance methodologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Genoma completo del trigo augura mayor rendimiento y seguridad alimentaria al mundo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Genoma completo del trigo augura mayor rendimiento y seguridad alimentaria al mundo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.economiaynegocios.cl/noticias/noticias.asp?id=496697 |
| Description | German Plant Breeding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | German Plant Breeding Society: keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Global Food Security: WORKING GROUP OF CROP BREEDERS AND CLIMATE MODELLERS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Grain quality conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Results of fundamental research described to research community, breeders and end-users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Group member Postdoc Kumar Gaurav invited to present Keynote Lecture at EuroBiotech, Kraków, Poland, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Lecture, EuroBiotech, Kraków, Poland, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eurobiotech.krakow.pl/gb/program-x/program.html |
| Description | International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildews Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/268483 |
| Description | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International Computation Biology Society: Africa meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview by Deutchlandfunk (German radio station) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the wake of my Nature Biotechnology paper on rapid resistance gene cloning by associaiton genetics, I was interviewed by Deutchlandfunk, a german radio station equivalent to Radio BBC 4 in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/resistenzgene-bei-pflanzen-hilfe-von-der-starken.676.de.html?dram:art... |
| Description | Interview by Jerome Starkey, The Times |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Following our press release on the appearance of stem rust in the UK for the first time in 50 years, I was interviewed by The Times correspondent Jereme Starkey. This resulted in a short article in The Times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/plague-that-scared-the-romans-is-back-g6nzm5d0k |
| Description | Interview with Newsweek on genetic diversity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by Newsweek on the importance of genetic diversity in crops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.newsweek.com/feed-world-scientists-have-plan-save-chickpeas-destruction-806925 |
| Description | Interviews with press and media on speed breeding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | JIC External Relations department released a press release on our work on 'speed breeding'. This sparked considerable attention from the press and media. I expect I gave about 20 interviews in the ensuing days, featured on BBC Look East, the local press, two national newspapers (The Times and The Guardian), Newsweek, as well as countless other media outlets across the world, including in Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Introduction to bioinformatics and wheat genomics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop aims: Expertise in the field of bioinformatics has become indispensable in most genetic or genomic research and applied approaches. This need has exceeded the level and rate at which plant genomics scientists have been trained in bioinformatics in South Africa. This workshop aimed to provide much-needed hands-on training in bioinformatics, wheat genomics and sequencing technologies by leading UK experts that are highly competent researchers and experienced trainers in these fields. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invitation to present work at Wiersum Plantbreeding, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to visit Wiersum Plantbreeding in the Netherlands. We discussed potential future collaborative work around the concept of a resistance gene atlas for wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentaiton (plenary session) at the Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions congress in Glasgow 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation of my work at the 2019 MPMI meeting in Glasgow. Based on this, I have since received two additional invitations to give seminars in Oxford University and Edinburgh University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ismpmi.org/Congress/Pages/default.aspx |
| Description | Invited presentation at 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences Eurobiotech, Krakow, Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My postdoc Kumar Gaurav was invited to give a Keynote Lecture at the the 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences Eurobiotech, Krakow, Poland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eurobiotech.krakow.pl/gb/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at BASF, Belgium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to BASF in Ghent, Belgium to present my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning in crops. We later discussed potential collaborations. This has resulted in further requests for information and discussions on collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to the Institute of Experimental Botany in the Czech Republic to give a presentation about my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning in Triticeae. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited presentation at KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I visited KAUST to present my work. This has resulted in offers of further collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Kew |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a short seminar on how to exploit genetic variation in crop wild relatives at a joint workshop organised between the John Innes Centre and Kew. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Key's Symposium, Keygene, Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation on my work at Keygene, The Netherlands. This resulted in requests for further information and interactions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Plant Sciences Department, University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work at the Plant Sciences Department at the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Plant and Animal Genome Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My postdoc, Kumar Gaurav, was invited to present our work on rapid gene cloning at PAG. This resulted in requests for further collaboration from groups in USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Pwani Univeristy, Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part AfriPlantSci, a two-week course on plant sciences for African scientists, I was invited to give a presentation at Pwani University, Kenya describing my research on rapid gene cloning and speed breeding in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/afriplantsci/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at Technical University of Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation at the TUM on my speed breeding and rapid gene cloning work in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://portal.mytum.de/termine/Event.2019-03-20.1464449129/event_view? |
| Description | Invited presentation at The Sainsbury Laboratory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work in The Sainsbury Laboratory spring science meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation on my work at the University of Nottingham to share my latest results on rapid resistance gene discovery, cloning and deployment. This resulted in long discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at the 8th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning, and generation advancement at the 8th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.global-engage.com/event/plant-genomics/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation at the LMU about my work on rapid gene isolation and speed breeding in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation by lab member PhD student Sreya Ghosh at Plant and Animal Genome Conference, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My PhD student Sreya Ghosh was invited to present at PAG, 2020 in San Diego. This resulted in request for additional information and has led to the drafting of a patent application with the 2Blades Foundation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Italian Society of Genetics (SIGA) and Plant Biology (SIBV) Joint meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at PISA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JIC 50 years Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participant at JIC 50 years Open Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JIC Annual Science Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | JIC Annual Science Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Industry showcase event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | JIC Industry showcase event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Open day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | JIC Open Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC Science Innovation Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at JIC Science Innovation Showcase with over 100 industry representatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC press release on AgRenSeq: "Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The press release was picked up by the national and international media and led to >10 requests for interviews from the press and media, including BBC Radio 4, The Times, Deutchlandfunk and others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/rapid-gene-cloning-technique-will-transform-crop-disease-protect... |
| Description | JIC press release: First report in decades of a forgotten crop pathogen |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | JIC press release |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | JIC student showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | To provide examples of future career opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jersey Farming Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jesus College, Cambridge conference on Food, Farming and Climate Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | John Innes Centre open day to the public |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To show the general public plant science research in practise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | KWS Wheat network discussions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with KWS scientist and breeders on wheat networks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote Speaker, Advances in Integrated Pest Management, Association of Applied Biologists, Harper Adams University, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to be a Keynote Speaker, at the meeting entitled Advances in Integrated Pest Management, Association of Applied Biologists, Harper Adams University, UK. This led to futher request to be involved in a responsive mode GCRF collaboration, which regretfully was not funded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Keynote Speaker, German Plant Breeding Society, Wernigerode, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was the Keynote Speaker, German Plant Breeding Society, Wernigerode, Germany. This resulted in additional interest from a range of colleagues in academia and industry, including policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote: Canadian Wheat Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Canadian Wheat Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote: From Seed to Pasta III |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From Seed to Pasta III |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Laboratory News: "Fast Food" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online and print magazine Laboratory News about my new rapid gene cloning technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.popsci.com/crops-disease-resistant-genes |
| Description | Limagrain wheat blast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of knowledge on genetics of wheat blast which led to Limagrain supporting an iCASE PhD studentship application (successful) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Limagrain wheat disease |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion led to Liamgrain supporting iCASE PhD proposal (successful) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | MARPLE website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have generated a project website to raise awareness of the project: https://acaciaafrica.org/marple-diagnostics/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2018 |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/marple-diagnostics/ |
| Description | MSc Domestication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc course on Domestication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | MSc on Wheat Yield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | MSc course on Wheat Yield |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Butterfly Conservation regarding the barberry carpet moth program |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This discussion was focused on raising awareness regarding the role of barberry in the life cycle of the wheat rust pathogens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with KWS barley breeders Feb 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with KWS barley breeders to discuss work being carried out by my group at NIAB that may be of interest to KWS. Updates on work KWS are already involved with or aware of (Production of wheat lacking B-type starch granules) plus introduction to new work (Barley lys3 mutants are unique amongst shrunken-endosperm mutants in having abnormally large embryos). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Member of the board of the G20 wheat initative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I am a board member of the G20 wheat initiative set up by the G20 agricultural ministers to facilitate coordination of wheat research in the G20 countries. We organise working group to facilitate such coordination, and to identify priorities for funding by funding agencies within the G20 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 |
| Description | Member of the management board of CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARD) to breed wheat for the resource-poor in the developing World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A management board member of CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARD) to breed wheat for the resource-poor in the developing World |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 |
| Description | Monogram Bioinformatics Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Monogram Bioinformatics Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Monogram meeting 2017 Bristol Poster on lys3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented during the monogram meeting on Lys barley mutation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Monogram meeting 2017. Oat poster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented at the meeting on Starch granule morphology in oat endosperm. The purpose of this was to expand the knowledge gained from BBSRC project on wheat to other cereal species. The impact was to inform colleagues of the work and to lay the ground work for future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Monogram meeting Bristol 2017 presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on the control of B-granule content in wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NIAB Annual Science meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk was given on the large embryo barley mutant project . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NIAB NEWS: New study on wheat stem rust calls for close monitoring |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | NIAB news article |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.niab.com/news_and_events/article/429 |
| Description | Nabim workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | talked to millers about possible impacts of research project for them and the wheat end-user group generally. Millers were generally supportive of the research and interested in any new germplasm arising from the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Nestle research opportunities meeting Feb 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Nestle representatives to discuss collaborative research opportunities. The purpose was to scope ideas for collaborative research projects. the impact was further discussions on potetial collaborative projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | New Frontiers in Crop Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | New Frontiers in Crop Research Thursday 20 October 2016, SCI, London, UK Organised by SCI's AgriSciences Group and the KTN Synopsis This conference will provide updates in many exciting areas of crop research, including projects underway within the BBSRC funded research-industry clubs. The event also aims to foster the interdisciplinary networking essential to innovation in the agri-food sector focused on enhancing crop yields, quality and sustainability. Attendees This event is designed to appeal to academic and industrial scientists involved in all aspects of crop research, and other stakeholders interested in catching up on the latest developments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.soci.org/events |
| Description | New Phytologist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New Phytologist/DFG SPP1819-funded workshop "Molecular mechanisms underlying the rapid evolution of plant-microbe interactions" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Newspaper article in the Times: "Gene analysis speeds up race to beat cereal killer" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was intereviewed by a reporter from The Times on our breakthrough in resistance gene cloning based on phenotyping sequence-configured diversity panels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gene-analysis-speeds-up-race-to-beat-cereal-killer-j2vsht83v |
| Description | Norfolk forum Science festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | To provide the general public with an insight into plant science research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Organisation a day workshop at Eucarpia meeting , Clermont_Ferrand Paris, with INRA (French) and Proweizen (German ) and CIMMYT researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The worship was to discuss possible collaborations which could lead to bids into the EU for funding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Outreach at BIO school - Bringing scientists to you event at Marshland High School (Peterborough) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach at BIO school - Bringing scientists to you event at Marshland High School (Peterborough) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Outreach at BIO school - Sports Days for Boys 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Outreach at BIO school - Sports Days for Boys 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Oxford Farming Conference talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0QJDivWgA |
| Description | Pathogenomics workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Trainer on Pathogenomics workshop organised by The Sainsbury Laboratory |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Penny Mordaunt, Secretary of State for International Development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | PhD student Sreya Ghosh invited to present accessible science talk on "Speed Breeding your favourite crop in large and small spaces" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My PhD student Sreya Ghosh was invited to present an accessible science talk on "Speed Breeding your favourite crop in large and small spaces" as part of the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory Annual Science Meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Pint of Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Norwich Science Festival |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Pint of Science talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to raise awareness of plant disease and genomics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present at a Congress in Rotterdam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Plenary Speaker, 4th International Conference on Plant Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on speed cloning and speed breeding as a Plenary Speaker at the 4th International Conference on Plant Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Almaty, Kazakhstan. This led to stimulating discussions and contributed to requests for further involvment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Popular Science: "These genetic 'goggles' could help us engineer wildly resilient crops" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online magazine Popular Science about my work on rapid resistance gene cloning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.popsci.com/crops-disease-resistant-genes |
| Description | Postdoc member Kumar Gaurav invited to present at Monogram Workshop, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Monogram Workshop, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Poster Monogram meeting 2016. Identification and characterization of Lys3 in barley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Monogram Network meeting is the annual get together for the small-grain cereal and grass research community. Academics, commercial scientists and plant breeders meet to hear about the latest advances, exchange ideas and discuss collaboration. The poster was viewed and discused at poster sessions during the course of the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.monogram.ac.uk/MgNW2016.php |
| Description | Poster- Dundee barley mutants workshop 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster on work associated with the large embryo barley mutant project was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at 4th International Conference "Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms", Vienna, Austria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my work at the 4th International Conference "Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms", Vienna, Austria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://viscea.org/plant-biotic-stresses-resistance-mechanisms-iv-february-19-20-2020/ |
| Description | Presentation at Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Beijing, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to visit the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Beijing, China and present my work on speed cloning and speed breeding. This has led to follow up requests for further visits, collaboration, and applicaiton for joint funding opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at International Wheat Conference, Saskatoon, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MINING A SEQUENCE-CONFIGURED WILD WHEAT DIVERSITY PANEL FOR GENES REGULATING ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE USING ASSOCIATION GENETICS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at John Innes Centre Wheat Breeders Day 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We presented a talk on "Mining wild wheat diversity for disease resistance". This sparked questions and discussions. I have been asked to visit BASF in Gent, Belgium to discuss potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Nanjing Agricultural University, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to Nanjing Agricultural University, China where I gave a presentation on my work on speed cloning and speed breeding. I was invited to participate in further collaborations based on this visit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at Science Innovation Showcase, JIC, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present at the Science Innovation Showcase, JIC, UK. This has led to requests for further information and ongoing disussions with inustrial partners for collaboration / contract research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on speed breeding and speed cloning at Tel Aviv University, Israel. This led to further discussions and resulted in an active collaboration and exchange of germplasm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at the conference for the UK Millers and bakers (NABIM-london) on DFW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Was asked to provide further information on the coordinated DFW programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on DFW at the DEFRA stakeholders WGIN meeting at RRES |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Request for more information on the programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to ACC1 Cereals and Grains conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was to inform the cereal grain (rice, maize and wheat) processes community on the step change which has occurred in wheat research and the involvement of WISP/DFW in the step change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to the BBSRC legume community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was to describe how the UK coordinated wheat programme was put together, and the impact the programme has had on the step change which has occurred in wheat research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on WISP/DFW to the BBSRC rice community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation described how the coordinated WISP/DFW UK wheat programme was put together, and the impact the programme has had on the step change which has occurred in wheat research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to Elsoms Seeds, Spalding, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on speed breeding and resistance gene cloning to Elsoms Seeds, Lincolnshire, and to troubleshoot their LED lighting in the glasshouse. This has since resulted in further interactions and dicussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation to KWS, Einbech, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on speed cloning and speed breeding at KWS, Einbech, Germany. KWS are currently considering how our enabling technologies could be integrated in one of their own crop breeding programmes and how we may collaborate to achieve this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to delegation from Elsoms Seeds, Lincolnshire, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I invited 8 delegates from Elsoms Seeds to visit JIC for some bespoke presentations from my group and a colleauge, and for an inspection of our speed breeding facilities. This has helped cement a relationship that now stretches back more than one year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to visiting agricultural students from Hogeschool, Ghent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to a visiting group of agricultural students from Homeschool in Ghent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Previously grainy wheat genome comes into focus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2018/08/wheat-genome-focus/ |
| Description | Rachel Lambert, Senior Livelihoods Adviser, Agriculture Research DFID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rachel Lambert, Senior Livelihoods Adviser, Agriculture Research DFID |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Radio Cardiff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio interview for genome paper: Radio Cardiff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.mixcloud.com/pythagoras_trousers/pythagoras-trousers-episode-421-mapping-the-wheat-genom... |
| Description | Radio Extramadura (Spain) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview in spanish regarding wheat genome sequence |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.canalextremadura.es/alacarta/radio/audios/principio-de-incertidumbre-la-secuenciacion-del... |
| Description | Redburn |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Redburn investment bank |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Rustwatch workshop on field pathogenomics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to train individuals in the MARPLE diagnostic pipeline as part of the RustWatch program (https://agro.au.dk/forskning/projekter/rustwatch/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://agro.au.dk/forskning/projekter/rustwatch/news-and-events/show/artikel/rustwatch-workshop-on-... |
| Description | School teacher education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The activity involved a presentation and discussion with school teachers on the importance and relevance of plant disease in a historical and current context. The activity is aimed at providing teachers who are not experts in plant pathology to effectively provide all the relevant information required within the A-level curriculum to their students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | School visit (NDPS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | discussion with year 6 students on gene editing and genetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Wheat's complex genome finally deciphered, offering hope for better harvests and nonallergenic varieties |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/wheat-s-complex-genome-finally-deciphered-offering-hope-bette... |
| Description | Science Collaboration Agritech, Aquaculture and Food Safety Forum, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present at the Science Collaboration Agritech, Aquaculture and Food Safety Forum, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Science and Faith |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Is it ethical to oppose modern plant breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Scientific Soft Skills workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Scientific Soft Skills workshop in Cairo |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Scientific Writing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This one-day course focused on the structure of good scientific writing. It including writing exercises as an integral part of the workshop. It looked at the practical process of writing, the nature of scientific publishing, and the importance of editing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://writeaboutscience.com |
| Description | Spiegel Online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Researchers crack wheat puzzles - and hope for fewer hunger victims |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/weizen-forscher-entschluesseln-genom-und-wollen-hunger-eind... |
| Description | State of the worlds fungi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk Aarhus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk at Aarhus University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Talk Barley Away Day Dundee 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The meeting included a range of presentations representing current barley research and stakeholder interest, with time for discussion.The aim of the meeting was to identify research priorities for the new International Barley Hub, and an achievable plan to secure the future of UK barley production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Talk at NIAB Science Day 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Science seminar was part of NIABs Open Day 2016. The focus was on innovation, demonstrating the impact of technology on crop management. The purpose was to show how NIAB's genetics and breeding research is increasing diversity and improving yields in wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.niab.com/shop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2286 |
| Description | Talk to flying farmers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk to "flying farmer" group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk- Monogram 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on the barley large embryo mutant work was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk-Dundee barley mutants workshop 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on work associated with the large embryo barley mutant project was presented. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/ibmw2018/ |
| Description | Teleconference discussion with Syngenta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a teleconference with Syngenta with participation from China, UK and USA. Follow-on discussions are ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Atlantic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists Finally Crack Wheat's Absurdly Complex Genome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/wheat-genome-is-best-thing-since-sliced-bread/56... |
| Description | The Economist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Revealing the wheat genome could lead to hypoallergenic bread |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/08/18/revealing-the-wheat-genome-could-lead-to... |
| Description | The Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Scientists sequence wheat genome in breakthrough once thought 'impossible' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/16/scientists-sequence-wheat-genome-in-breakthrough-onc... |
| Description | The Sainsbury Laboratory Retreat 2017, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on R gene cloning and speed breeding at The Sainsbury Laboratory 2017 retreat. This sparked questions and discussions and has since contributed to further collaboration with colleagues in TSL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Thought for Food challenge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Competition - students in the group developed a web app called "Patch It App". The entry reached the top 20 teams and was invited to Amsterdam where they delivered a presentation about the novel application for urban farmers during the pop-up pitch session on the second day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.tffchallenge.com |
| Description | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Three modules in Cambridge Plant Science undergraduate course (last year course PLL1) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Three-horizons, Agritech East Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to provide an opportunity to find out how next generation sequencing technologies and high performance computing are being applied to answer the biological challenges of our time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Training in "Bioinformatics to advance wheat breeding" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training in "Bioinformatics to advance wheat breeding" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Training in pathogenomics methodology in Ethiopia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visiting Ethiopia to train individuals in advanced genomics-based disease surveillance techniques. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/marple-diagnostics-a-pioneering-step-in-ethiopian-wheat-rust-management/ |
| Description | Two invited presentations at Next-generation wheat breeders workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Myself and my postdoc, Sanu Arora, were invited to present on our enabling technology for rapid cloning of disease resistance genes by association genetics. This sparked a lot of interest and led to an invitation to present again at the International Wheat Congress, Saskatchewan, Canada, the following week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://2019iwc.ca/pre-conference-workshop/ |
| Description | UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey: Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited to share our latest results and methodology regarding pathogen diagnostics and surveillance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UKCPVS Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participant at UKCPVS Event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.niab.com/pages/id/316/UKCPVS |
| Description | UKCPVS stakeholder meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UKCPVS stakeholder event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Velcourt Agronomist annual conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WGIN Stakeholders' Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Wheat molecular genomics workshop in Cairo, Egypt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with Dr Ahmed Elkot of the Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) in Cairo, Egypt, we organised a workshop for wheat researchers and breeders. Approximately 50 scientists attended including the Minister of Agriculture and the President of the ARC (which employs ~60,000 staff). The event was a great success and covered in the national media in Egypt. The ARC staff were very honoured that the Minister of Agriculture attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/526865257491839/posts/1170288249816200/ |
| Description | Wired Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | AFTER 13 YEARS, SCIENTISTS FINALLY MAP THE MASSIVE WHEAT GENOME |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.wired.com/story/after-13-years-scientists-finally-map-the-massive-wheat-genome/ |
| Description | Women in Science seminar series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Formal talk to encourage women to continue a career in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Women in Science seminar series in High Schools in Spain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | To encourage women to pursue a career in science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Women in computing blog series at the EI website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Blog post to promote women in computing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/women-computing-pilar-corredor-moreno |
| Description | Workshop on MARPLE diagnostics in Ethiopia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to train individuals in the MARPLE diagnostics method to support adoption of this method in Ethiopia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/supercharged-marple-labs-to-be-fastest-rust-surveillance-system-in-africa/ |
| Description | Youth STEMM Awards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Youth STEMM Award is an achievement-based award for students in Years 9-13, designed to support and inspire the next generation of STEMM professionals. We provided an opportunity for participants to gain new knowledge about rust pathogens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Youth STEMM Awards demonstration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Youth STEMM Awards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Youth STEMM awards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A ceremony for The Youth STEMM Award (YSA) which provides a focused and engaging framework for young people aged 13-18 to further their passion, knowledge and skills in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2016/07/new-youth-stemm-award-recognises-success-end-year... |
| Description | Youtube video: "What is AgRenSeq" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ruby O'Grady in the JIC External Communications Team generated an animation to explain the meaning of the acronym "AgRenSeq". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xefrjg5Y_Ug&t=6s |
| Description | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | core skills workshop (2 days) as part of AfriPlantSci workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | eyespot industry partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | informed wheat breeders on genetics of eyespot resistance and candidate resistance genes and potential trade-off between yield and protein content of grain |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017 |
| Description | http://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/beca/training/jic_beca_2016/index.html |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Trainer on workshop "Advancing cereals genetic research using the latest genomic and germplasm resources" BecA-ILRI Hub, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/beca/training/jic_beca_2016/index.html |
| Description | member of the G20 wheat Initiative Science board during 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The members of the science board discuss how to better coordinate the wheat research activities in the G20 countries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | member of the management board of the CGIAR wheat programme (CIMMYT and ICARDA) to breed wheat for the resource poor in the developing world |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I offer advice to the management team of the wheat CGIAR programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | member of the organising committee for PAG 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Suggest plenary speakers for inviting to speak at PAG 2020 meeting attracting 3000 animal and plant researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | podcast Wheat Genome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dewing Grain podcast Wheat Genome |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.dewinggrain.co.uk/podcast-item/?id=34 |
| Description | school visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Delivery of the plant disease and host disease resistance components of the A level curriculum to A'level students. This was delivered alongside a presentation on the impact of plant disease on human civilisation throughout history and efforts to combat disease through plant breeding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | school visit (Wymondham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Presentations on the history of plant disease and impact on society alongside plant disease and disease resistance information required for A level students |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |