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)
- Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan (Collaboration)
- University College Dublin, Ireland (Collaboration)
- Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (Collaboration)
- Secobra Recherche (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Collaboration)
- Novogene Corporation (Collaboration)
- DIALUNOX (Collaboration)
- KWS UK (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) (Collaboration)
- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (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)
- Heliospectra AB (Collaboration)
- Scotch Whisky Research Institute, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Archer Daniels Midland (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (Collaboration)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA (Collaboration)
- University of Adelaide, Australia (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- Kansas State University, United States (Collaboration)
Publications
Adams, T.M.
(2020)
Tracking wheat yellow rust: near real-time data sharing with Nextstrain
in Zenodo
Adamski N
(2019)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat
Adamski N
(2018)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in wheat
Adamski NM
(2020)
A roadmap for gene functional characterisation in crops with large genomes: Lessons from polyploid wheat.
in eLife
Alemu S
(2021)
Genome-wide association mapping identifies yellow rust resistance loci in Ethiopian durum wheat germplasm
in PLOS ONE
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)
Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Grain Micronutrients Concentration in Aegilops tauschii.
in Frontiers in plant science
Arora S
(2019)
Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.
in Nature biotechnology
Balk J
(2019)
Improving wheat as a source of iron and zinc for global nutrition.
in Nutrition bulletin
Bansal M
(2021)
A robust KASP marker for selection of four pairs of linked leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes introgressed on chromosome arm 5DS from different wheat genomes.
in Molecular biology reports
| 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/ |
| Title | What is AgRenSeq |
| Description | An animation describing our enabling technology "AgRenSeq" for rapidly discovering and cloning disease resistance genes in plant genomes. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The Youtube video has been viewed 1919 times since it was uploaded in February 2019 (i.e. nearly two years ago). |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xefrjg5Y_Ug |
| 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) New lines of wheat with enlarged embryos have been produced that have potential impacts on nutritional value. Germplasm generated in the project has been provided to breeders and millers for assessment of yield and functional properties of starch and flour. (2) Identification of a component of the Pch1 durable eyespot resistance in wheat. (3) Identification of two genes in wheat controlling host jumps by blast disease Magnaporthe oryzae (4) Identification of a new resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB) (5) We found a gene in wheat (TaBCAT1) that acts to promote rust fungal infection. Disrupting the function of this gene in mutant wheat plants was shown to provide resistance to two of the most economically damaging diseases of wheat worldwide - yellow and stem rust. When TaBCAT1 function is disrupted defense responses are constantly activated, likely priming the plants to defend themselves from the wheat rust pathogens even before attack. (6) We created a series of tools and resources to facilitate 'point-and-click' interrogation of the increasing number of complex genomic datasets available for studying the wheat rust pathogens. This includes development of: (i) the "rust expression browser" that hosts the largest database of gene sequence data for any of the wheat rust pathogens (http://www.rust-expression.com) and (ii) the first instance of Nextstrain for a eurkaryotic plant pathogen (yellow rust), which acts as an open-source toolkit for the analysis and open sharing of data on pathogen outbreaks (https://nextstrain.org/community/saunderslab/PST). (7) Wheat stem rust is a re-emerging threat to wheat production in the UK. We have continued to study the stage of the stem rust lifecycle that occurs on the unrelated alternate host shrub Berberis. Stem rust infects Berberis as part of its overwintering cycle in cooler climates and spores that form on Berberis shrubs can spread the pathogen back into cereal crops in the springtime. We conducted a survey on 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. We also carried out a detailed study with two landscape historians at UEA to evaluate the historical prevalence of barberry and stem rust across the UK that has helped identify numerous new associations with landscape markers to guide future barberry surveys. (8) We are continuing to integrate our MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) diagnostics platform for near real-time, strain level diagnostics of yellow rust within the wheat rust early warning system in Ethiopia (see BBSRC Case study: https://bbsrc.ukri.org/research/impact/marple-the-real-time-cereal-killer-detective/). |
| 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. In addition: (1) The new wheats lines with enlarged embryos are being tested for improved properties and incorporated into global wheat breeding programmes. If they prove successful during commercial testing, the germplasm produced by the DFW grant could contribute to improved lines of wheat for food and feed production, both in the UK and globally. (2) JIC's partnership with CIMMYT and EIAR has achieved significant impact, that includes: (i) Secondment of an EIAR scientist to JIC for 5 months of in-depth training in MARPLE diagnostics in 2018, providing extensive skills and knowledge in this area. (ii) Wider training of EIAR scientists by JIC in September 2018 offered knowledge and capacity building in mobile sequencing capability. CIMMYT and EIAR now have a nanopore sequencer and the capability to utilise it in-country. This was followed in 2019 with further, structured, in-country, training with an in-depth workshop held in Holeta. (iii) EIAR Holeta is now a model "hub" that will act as the coordinating centre (iv) An additional four MARPLE hubs are now being created with further training planned to support adoption in 2021. These training activities will be supported by three BBSRC-funded PhD students that will spend 2 months in Ethiopia assisting with capacity building as part their professional training. (3) TaBCAT1 represents a newly identified regulator of rust infection that could be disrupted by wheat breeders to potentially provide durable resistance to rust diseases worldwide. (4) The new 'point-and-click' tools we have created will open up access to these valuable genomic resources to accelerate rust research across the community. (5) Knowing the location of stem rust infected Berberis bushes can help identify those that need careful monitoring to curtail future stem rust epidemics originating on Berberis in the UK. (6) In the UK, we have been supporting the integration of MARPLE diagnostics into the UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) and to support European partners conducted further training in the methodology in 2019 as part of the Horizon2020 RustWatch project. This led to great interest in adoption, with one lab in Poland recently securing funding to integrate MARPLE into their national disease surveillance program and others with funding applications underway. (7) The identification of the first gene for resistance to eyespot will provide insight into why this resistance has remained so durable (8) The markers to the M. oryzae resistances will be useful for plant breeders to ensure that their varieties contain these resistances. Markers to the M. oryzae resistances have been provided to CIMMYT and to wheat breeders in Brazil to follow these in their breeding programmes (9) Plant breeders can incorporate the new FHB resistance into wheat varieties to reduce disease and the risk of mycotoxins contaminating grain. (10) We have made the Open Wild Wheat germplasm resources publicly available and there are now >30 researches worldwide who are screening our sequence-configured collection for >60 traits. We therefore expect that our roadmap developed under the aegis of the Open Wild Wheat Consortium will facilitate and speed up the utilisation of the extensive diversity present in Ae. tauschii for wheat improvement. (11) The cloned stem rust resistance genes are being used by our pathway to impact partner, the 2Blades Foundation, to engineer transgene wheat lines containing stacks of multiple stem rust resistance genes (see Luo et al., 2021, A five-transgene cassette confers broad spectrum resistance to fungal rust pathogen in wheat. Nature Biotechnology, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00770-x). 2Blades aspire to collaborate with CIMMYT to deploy such stacks in in developing countries to help control stem rust. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Retail |
| URL | https://designingfuturewheat.org.uk/ |
| Description | The ISP is in its fourth 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) New types of wheat have been produced that have improved flour properties or larger germ. These new wheats have potential impacts on yield, ease of milling, processed food production (including bread-staling) and nutritional value for human and animal food. The value of the new wheats is being tested by academics, breeders and end-users. (2) Eyespot resistance gene Pch1 was introduced into wheat from a wild relative in 1980 and has remained functional since that time. We have established that the resistance is due to more than one gene and have identified one of the genes responsible. (3) Wheat blast first emerged in Brazil in 1985. This occurred through an expansion in host range by the fungus M. oryzae to allow it to infect wheat. We have identified the two genes overcome in this process. These are still useful to wheat breeders. (4) There are relatively few potent sources of resistance to Fusarium head blight. Working with colleagues at the University of Nottingham we identified resistance in a wheat relative (Triticum timopheevii) and have shown that this resistance works when transferred to wheat. (5) We formed an international consortium of experts in wheat germplasm conservation, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics (see www.OpenWildWheat.org), sequenced 242 accessions of the diploid wild wheat Aegilops tauschii (progenitor of the bread wheat D sub-genome), created a pipeline for gene discovery by association genetics, and then coupled this to targeted delivery of genes into wheat by crossing or transformation (Gaurav et al., 2021, Evolution of the bread wheat D-subgenome and enriching it with diversity from Aegilops tauschii. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.31.428788v1). (6) We posted a review paper which calls for a proposal for an internationally coordinated effort to clone "all" the resistance genes against the major pathogens of wheat and the corresponding pathogen effectors, with suggestions on how to use this information to maximize durable resistance in wheat (see Hafeez et al. 2021, Creation and judicious application of a wheat resistance gene atlas. https://zenodo.org/record/4469514#.YDzNQmNRUzU). (7) We cloned the stem rust resistance genes Sr1664-1Sh and Sr43 and confirmed their function in transgenic wheat. |
| 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 | Harwood W. became a member of the advisory committee on Animal Feeding stuffs (ACAF) as biotechnology expert, advising the government on biotechnology related issues including GM and genome editing. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline 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 Adam Stains, Matt Freeman and Harriet Trewin, BBSRC: Discussion on latest developments in crop breeding techniques |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit by Green Party Norfolk County Councillors |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit from Government Office of Science (Nancy Bailey, Neil Waby, Rebecca Nohl)- Discussion on CRISPR gene editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit from the Board of GenOk, Norway (senior advisors to Government in Norway and Finland) with Harwood W. to discuss advances in genetic modification and genome editing. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Visit of Norman Lamb MP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| 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 | (dcPolyWheat) - Dominant cis-regulatory variation to improve quantitative traits in polyploid wheat |
| Amount | € 1,999,994 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 866328 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| 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 | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | BBSRC iCASE |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | BSPP Undergraduate Vacation Bursary |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Society of Plant Pathology |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| 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 | 04/2018 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | Building capacity in third-generation genomics and bioinformatics for agricultural biosciences in Africa |
| Amount | £99,952 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/T017422/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | CGIAR Inspire challenge |
| Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | CGIAR |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| 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 | 06/2019 |
| 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 | 06/2018 |
| 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 | 08/2019 |
| 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 | 03/2019 |
| 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 | 09/2016 |
| 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 | 04/2018 |
| 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 | 09/2018 |
| 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 | 05/2018 |
| 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 | 03/2018 |
| 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 | 09/2019 |
| 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 | 05/2019 |
| 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 | Understanding and exploiting genetic diversity in wheat for yellow rust resistance |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| 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 | 06/2019 |
| 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 | 05/2019 |
| 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 | Aeciospore Dispersal Model |
| Description | We developed a model for simulating aeciospore dispersal gradients for the notorious wheat stem rust pathogen. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | It has just been released so it is too early to measure impact at this stage. |
| URL | https://aeciospore-dispersal-model.com |
| 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 |
| Description | Database with data from exome captured wheat mutants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 2,000 unique users across >5,000 sessions. |
| URL | http://www.wheat-tilling.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 | Wheat rust genomics |
| Description | This website brings together all the current genomic resources and tools available for the three wheat rust pathogens: Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, P. striiformis f. sp. tritici and P. triticina. It also provides a forum to connect researchers who may have fungal isolates they would like to share with those interested in collaborating to sequence them. Wheat rust are known as the "polio of agriculture" due to the severe threat these diseases pose to wheat production worldwide and have been associated with many crop failures and famine throughout history. There are three types of wheat rust (stem, yellow and leaf) that are all caused by different species of parasitic fungi. Despite looking different, all three of these fungi are closely related and have a lot of similarities. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The website has yet to be publicised so it is to early to measure impact. |
| URL | https://www.wheat-rust-genomics.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 | Adelaide VHA project |
| Organisation | University of Adelaide |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I travelled to Adelaide in March 2019 to learn of the work being done on Very High Amylose (VHA) wheat at Adelaide university. I visited the groups of Dr Colin Jenner and Prof Rachel Burton amongst others. We are working on some of the VHA lines of wheat which we obtained from Adelaide University as part of our BBSRC-funded Designing Future Wheat project. We are attempting to determine the molecular basis of the trait. |
| Collaborator Contribution | My assistant, BS and I also traveled to Adelaide to work at the University of Adelaide in Oct 2019 to learn the biochemical assays being used to assess amylose and starch content in wheat grains and to discuss further collaborative work. We also talked to the commercial team about the best routes to commercialization of VHA lines. We were given more grains to bring home to the UK to add to our studies. |
| Impact | The collaboration is Multidiciplinary, involving biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and food-functionality studies. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| 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 | EIAR |
| Organisation | Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are currently sequencing 200 teff genomes |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have provided access to germplasm and DNA |
| Impact | none so far |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| 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 | Private |
| 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 | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | 2Blades Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | Kansas State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| 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 | Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan |
| Department | Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics |
| Country | Tajikistan |
| 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 | 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 | DIALUNOX |
| 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 | 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 | Heliospectra AB |
| Department | Institute Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv |
| Country | Israel |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Private |
| PI Contribution | Genetics and genomics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Wheat germplasm and know how |
| Impact | Shared projects |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | RAGT |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| 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 | 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 | VIB_Ghent |
| Organisation | Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie |
| Department | VIB Gent |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working to annotate the cis-regulatory landscape of polyploid wheat |
| Collaborator Contribution | They have run BLSSpeller on multiple Poacaea genomes |
| Impact | none so far |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| 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 | Stem rust resistance genes and methods of use |
| Description | Compositions and methods and for enhancing the resistance of wheat plants to wheat stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici are provided. The compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding resistance (R) gene products and variants thereof and plants, seeds, and plant cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules. The methods for enhancing the resistance of a wheat plant to wheat stem mst comprise introducing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an R gene product into a wheat plant cell. Additionally provided are methods for using the wheat plants in agriculture to limit wheat stem rust. |
| IP Reference | US20200362367A1 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | None to date. |
| 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 | Crop Haplotype |
| Description | The Crop Haplotypes website provides an interactive graphic visualisation of the shared haplotypes between the wheat genome assemblies generated as part of the 10+ Wheat Genome Project (Brinton et al, 2020; Walkowiak et al, 2020). We used chromosome-level genome assemblies of nine wheat cultivars (ArinaLrFor, Jagger, Julius, Lancer, Landmark, Mace, Norin61, Stanley, SY-Mattis) and the Chinese Spring RefSev1.0 assembly alongside scaffold-level assemblies of five additional cultivars (Cadenza, Claire, Paragon, Robigus and Weebill). For more details on the cultivars and overall context of the project see this link and the manuscript describing these assemblies (Walkowiak et al, 2020). To call haplotype blocks we used a combination of whole chromosome level NUCmer alignments and gene-based pairwise alignments using BLASTn. Briefly, we defined haplotype blocks as physical regions with =99.99% sequence identity (across a fixed bin size of 5-, 2.5- or 1-Mbp) between pairwise comparisons of cultivars in the 10+ Wheat Genome Project. More details on this haplotype analysis and the underlying methodologies can be found in the manuscript "A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding" (Brinton et al, 2020). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | We used this software for two publications (Brinton et al 2020 Comms Biology and Walkowiak et al 2020 Nature) |
| URL | http://www.crop-haplotypes.com/ |
| 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 |
| Title | PolyMarker |
| Description | PolyMarker is an automated bioinformatics pipeline for SNP assay development which increases the probability of generating homoeologue-specific assays for polyploid species. PolyMarker generates a multiple alignment between the target SNP sequence and the selected reference genome (from the drop off menu in green below). It then generates a mask with informative polymorphic positions between homoeologs which are highlighted with respect to the target genome. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 160,000 pageviews over the past 24 months |
| URL | http://www.polymarker.info/ |
| 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. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Roughly 1000 pageviews per month from across the world |
| URL | http://www.wheat-training.com/ |
| 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 workshop conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BGRI conference - I was an invited Keynote speaker and three further talks were given by my group. This led to many follow-up conversations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Cereals Event 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cereals Event talk on plant breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Colloquium, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Based on my recent opinion pieces on GM crops published in Science I was called upon by physicists in the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany, to give Colloquim presentation. My presentation was recorded and in the ensuing week I was told it was viewed more than 350 times! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| 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 on gene editing with NFU East Anglia (full membership) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia complete membership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Anglia Crop Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU East Midlands |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
| 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 | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Crops Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
| 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 | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National Regional Crops Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU South West |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU West Midlands |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | Feeding the Future: Can we protect crops sustainably? Society of Chemical Industry, 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 called upon to give a talk about the case for GM wheat for disease management, by the Society of Chemical Industry (https://www.soci.org/). They have a vested interest in this topic given that many of their stake holders are affiliated with the agro-chemical (pesticide) industry. I had very positive feedback from my presentation, e.g. see below: "Dear Brande, I had a hunch that your talk would be a highlight for me and I was not disappointed. There was so much in it that I enjoyed listening to and I learned so much. For me, it came down to the key question of 'Can we pull out special genes from wild relatives and insert them into elite wheat?' I was pleased to hear you say that the answer is 'yes' even though there are substantial technical issues to overcome about poor recombination. The new sequencing and mathematical techniques are giving us real prospects for taking things forward. Your example of the variety with the 5 stacked genes was inspiring. If we can do this once, how many more times can we do it? You have inspired me to want to learn so much more. Thank you very much. Very best wishes, James James Garratt CSci Managing Director" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.soci.org/events/protecting-crops-in-a-challenging-future |
| 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 | Horticultural Association of Kenya - workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A workshop organised by the Horticultural Association of Kenya where I was invited to give a Keynote talk. This led to further interactions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Huazhong Agricultural University, China |
| 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 called upon by one of my collaborators to present my work at Huazhong Agricultural University, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | IWGSC Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IWGSC Webinar on new genomic tools in wheat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Invited presentation: 2nd International Plant Genetics & Genomics Symposium, Assiut University, Egypt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation on my wheat gene cloning work at an international meeting hosted by Assiut University, Egypt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/book/Book_of_Abstracts_IPGG_2020_docx/13079492 |
| Description | Invited presentation: Linné seminar, Swedish Agricultural University, Sweden |
| 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 on the back of the presentation I gave at the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions conference in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation: Novogene European User Forum |
| 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 asked by the sequencing company Novogene, China, to give a presentation reporting on my use of high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics to clone genes from crops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://en.novogene.com/about/news/2020-novogene-european-user-forum/ |
| Description | Invited talk - India |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk that led to further interest in adoption of some of the methodology we have developed in the lab. |
| 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 | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| 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 | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018 |
| 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 | 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| 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 | Oxford Nanopore webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk for a webinar organised by Oxford Nanopore that led to further discussion for support of our MARPLE diagnostics project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Amber Hafeez |
| 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 | My PhD student Amber N. Hafeez gave a presentation on the concept of a "Resistance Gene Atlas" for wheat. It was well received and we have been asked for further engagement with BGRI, wheat breeders, and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfOWzqoHfU&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Kumar Gaurav |
| 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 | My Postdoc Kumar Gaurav was invited to present our work, entitled: "Exploiting diversity in the bread wheat D-genome progenitor" from the Open Wild Wheat Consortium (www.openwildwheat.org). The presentation was well received as evidenced by the questions and ensuing Twitter activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bgri.cornell.edu/2020-bgri-technical-workshop-day-2/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Paul Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our close collaborator, Paul Nicholson, was called upon to present our work on cloning wheat blast resistance genes at the BGRI Technical Workshop. The presentation was well received and the video, which was uploaded to Facebook on 15 December, has since been viewed more than 200 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/globalrust/videos/bgri-2020-technical-workshop-identification-of-wheat-blas... |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Sanu Arora |
| 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 | My Postdoc Sanu Arora was invited to present our work on wheat gene cloning technologies at the BGRI meeting. The presentation was very well received as evidenced by the questions and ensuing Twitter activity. The video of the presentation been viewed more than 500 times on Facebook and ~150 times on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDKb5ZeWjU |
| 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 | Press Release - Landmark study generates first genomic atlas for worldwide wheat |
| 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 | This press release was picked up by160 news outlets with an online reach of 795 million (calculated in monthly visits to the websites on which the story appeared) outlets included Mail Online and many local and regional news outlets across UK. This is because the story was picked up by the Press Association the wire used by all the regional press. The press release was also covered in the international media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/landmark-study-generates-first-genomic-atlas-for-worldwide-wheat... |
| Description | Press release: "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 | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. The press release led to the production of 85 stories (26 online, 11 association, 3 daily newspaper, 1 magazine, 1 news service, 23 news website, 20 other and 1) following the publication of her paper. The total ad value is the estimated cost of how much your coverage adds up if you took out an advert of equivalent prominence in that publication. This is: £133,518.86 to date. Monthly visits is for the online stories is worth = £1,611,830,585 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/previously-grainy-wheat-genome-comes-into-focus/ |
| Description | Press release: "Pumping Iron - Biofortified wheat produces white flour with extra iron" |
| 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 | A press release was completed on the story and released to the John Innes Centre website with a link to collaborators and the paper. The story was also then promoted via the social media platform including Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. To promote the story further distribution platforms including 'Eurekaalert' (for a science specific audience) and 'Vuelio' (for a more general audience) were used. Own contacts were also followed up including local news reporters to ensure the paper and story was well publicised. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/pumping-iron-biofortified-wheat-produces-white-flour-with-extra-... |
| 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 | SIGA Congress Angelo Bianchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 attendants and discussion of new tools for wheat genomic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 - invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to share new discoveries from the lab regarding disease surveillance and improving wheat rust resistance with industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | University of Arkansas - invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to share my groups research activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Florida - invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk to share my groups research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Maryland, USA |
| 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 called upon to speak in the departmental seminar series by a collaborator form University of Maryland, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 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 called upon by one of my collaborators to present my work at the University of Zurich |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 |