Germplasm
Lead Research Organisation:
John Innes Centre
Department Name: Contracts Office
Abstract
We will accelerate the discovery and deployment of genes and alleles of high value for breeding, thus maximising impact from discoveries within the 'Increased efficiency and sustainability', the 'Added value and resilience' projects, WISP and 20:20 Wheat strategic programmes. Tangible outputs for this purpose are referred to as ‘toolkits’, one composed of pre-breeding germplasm and the other the molecular markers needed to exploit that germplasm. We will specifically address two topics. The first advances the genetic and genomic characterisation of foundation germplasm. This germplasm, together with the derived segregating populations and associated methodologies, will supply new toolkit genes, alleles, and markers. In the second the new genes, alleles and markers are validated and tested for their value in breeding. This gene discovery funnel produces packages of traits with molecular markers assembled into the two toolkits. We will channel new genes and alleles based on the discoveries of this porgramme and previous wheat programme outputs, into commercial wheat breeding. The breeders' toolkits and associated information will be improved and expanded, for the benefit of breeders and the wider plant community.
Organisations
- John Innes Centre, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- LS Plant Breeding (Collaboration)
- International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (Collaboration)
- DSV (Collaboration)
- Limagrain (Collaboration)
- Elsoms Seeds (Collaboration)
- RAGT Seeds (Collaboration)
- University of Sydney, Australia (Collaboration)
- Punjab Aricultural University (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (Collaboration)
- The University of Passo Fundo (Collaboration)
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Collaboration)
- KWS UK (Collaboration)
- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- Bayer (Collaboration)
Publications
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 SK
(2021)
Genome-wide association mapping identifies yellow rust resistance loci in Ethiopian durum wheat germplasm.
in PloS one
Arora S
(2019)
Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.
in Nature biotechnology
Arora S
(2019)
Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Grain Micronutrients Concentration in Aegilops tauschii
in Frontiers in Plant Science
Baker L
(2020)
Exploiting the genome of Thinopyrum elongatum to expand the gene pool of hexaploid wheat
in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
Bansal M
(2020)
Aegilops umbellulata introgression carrying leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes Lr76 and Yr70 located to 9.47-Mb region on 5DS telomeric end through a combination of chromosome sorting and sequencing
in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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 | SEED: Grow, Splice Discover |
| Description | Advisor to All Seeing Eye in development of "SEED: Grow, Splice, Discover", a Virtual Reality computer game, finalist and winner of the Wellcome Trust/Epic Games Developing Beyond competition |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Increased engagement of general public with plant breeding in general and in the role of crop improvement in social, economic and food security. |
| URL | http://allseeing.co/seed/ |
| Description | The Germplasm Work Package has established a set of key resources and approaches essential for the delivery of research outputs in the UK wheat programme to progress in wheat breeding. These are precise genetic stocks. Modern bread carrying segments of chromosome from wheat wild relatives, ancient wheat landraces, resynthesised (synthetic) bread wheat, and mutagenized populations containing new versions of genes. We have made major contributions to the development of experimental breeding approaches, accelerating the progression of wheat generations and using molecular marker data to predict the performance of new wheat progeny. In all cases high throughput genotyping has been used to 'paint' the chromosomes of the new germplasm produced so that new and useful variation can be tracked from it's creation in the work package to it's ultimate deployment in plant breeding. New genotyping methodologies addressing areas of need for academics and breeders have been developed. In many cases the germplasm and associated resources produced here feeds back into DFW WPs 1 and 2 to further accelerate the more fundamental biological research conducted there and show how it can be applied in modern wheat varieties. The sharp end of this process is the Breeders Toolkit which is the formal mechanism by which commercial wheat breeders agree on the merit of DFW outputs for joint study. Our ability to identify new and useful genetic variation in primary, secondary, and tertiary germplasm has increased over this reporting period. For example, at NIAB 1300 chromosome segment substitution lines have been genotyped by the University of Bristol and grown in the field for the first time as experimental plots. This should facilitate gene discovery in introgressed segments of the tetraploid genome. NIAB nominated high yielding synthetic derivatives based on data collected there and at 2018 Rothamsted trials conducted at Woburn. Two were voted onto the Breeders Toolkit and are now represented on 8 commercial breeding sites as fully replicated yield trials along with one landrace derivative near isogenic line. Lines from the University of Nottingham, NIAB, and JIC now mean that alien introgressions, synthetic wheat, and landrace derived NILs are being assesed in the same large scale experimental plots at Rothamsted (Redbourn site). They are being phenotyped using phenomics technologies by a partnership of the Rothamsted team with the phenomics group from the Earlham Institute. All data is collated and stored for analysis of significant beneficial effects of introgressed chromosomal segments. High performing lines for which the beneficial allele is is tagged by a diagnostic haplotype have now been shown to outperform the parental genotype over multiple years and evironments , demonstrating how robust this gene discovery and deployment pipeline is across academic and commercial sites around the UK. Prioritised loci are being intercrossed to show how the genetic gains achieved can be multiplied. All the material discussed is genotyped by the University of Bristol with data accessible at Cereals db and the DFW website. All germplasm is publicly available via the Germplasm Resource Unit. New methods of sampling these very large gene discovery population have been successfully tested and rolled out for application in WP1 and 2 of DFW for the discovery of new genes and alleles controlling mineral content and aspects of yield and performance. We have analysed skim-sequencing data for over 600 Paragon gamma-radiation deletion mutants originally developed within WGIN. We have identified homozygous deletions across large parts of the genome and are working with WP4 (Earlham and EBI) to generate a visualisation interface for users. We identified over 20,000 deletions that cover over 64,000 genes, which represent 90.5% of the genes in non-repetitive regions. We have phenotyped the Ae. tauschii open wild wheat collection for spike, grain size and shape characteristics. We will conduct the association genetics analyses shortly and follow up on putative targets relating to these traits. We have progressed 9 backcrossing streams in Breeders Toolkit development. Axiom high density genotyping has been conducted on several DFW germplasm sets. The D genome chromosome segment substitution library is now complete and being grown under field conditions. The DFW Academic Toolkit now comprises 935 lines and the Breeders Toolkit 31 lines. All these materials have been tested under field conditions at JIC, Rothamsted, and NIAB. New disease resistances have been identified in the Breeders Observation Panel (BOP). WP3 members have supported WP1 and 2 in germplasm provision, QTL analysis, molecular marker design and validation. This has resulted in new markers and germplasm for: increased grain yield; increased dietary fibre; reduced height; increased loaf volume; increased iron and Zinc; delayed senescence; and increased Nitrogen Use Efficiency. The Breeders Toolkit mechanism received nominations for more than 25 loci. Nominations were received from all of the DFW work packages (except for WP which would not be expected to generate nominations) and external nominations. The commercial breeding members remain highly engaged with this process and conducted high quality Breeders Toolkit Trials on 9 sites. The GRU has been active in servicing DFW germplasm requests to commercial and academic users. We have analysed skim-sequencing data for over 600 Paragon gamma-radiation deletion mutants originally developed within WGIN. We have identified deletions across large parts of the genome and have developed an interactive visualisation with Earlham Institute as part of WP4 (http://wheat-deletion.cyverseuk.org/tgac_browser/). We identified over 20,000 deletions that cover over 64,000 genes, which represent 90.5% of the genes in non-repetitive regions. We have phenotyped the Ae. tauschii open wild wheat collection for spike, grain size and shape characteristics. We conducted genome wide association analyses and identified novel variation which we are following up. Part of this work is published within the Guarav et al 2021 bioRxiv manuscript. All new Academic Toolkit lines have continued to be genotyped using Axiom 35 K technology. We continue to upgrade our genetic maps using Axiom genotyping (from KASP) and now impute the full genome sequence of these variants based on the re-sequencing of parental lines carried out within the WP and from external sources. The Breeders Toolkit continues to attract nominations which feed into the DFW-Commercial Breeding interaction and are tested in the Breeders Toolkit multi site trials ran by the 8 commercial breeding companies who participate in the BTK. In addition the Breeders Observation Panel (BOP) screens germplasm panels provided by DFW for disease resistance with exciting new results achieved for Yellow rust and Septoria, both major problems for UK farmers. All of this work has been accelerated by development in whole genome sequencing of DFW germplasm presenting over delivery compared the exome capture work originally proposed. New KASP markers covering the genomes of wild relatives facilitate new possibilities for marker assisted selection in for these challenging pre-breeding parents. |
| Exploitation Route | The most important way the outputs of Germplasm are taken forward by other is in the form of the Breeders Toolkit which is a recommended list of prebreeding germplasm with proven potential for breeding. In addition the gene discovery resource of Germplasm are fully available to the wider community under the stewardship of the Germplasm Resource Unit. Associated data adds value to the germplasm produced and existing germplasm used to benchmark progress. Genotypic data if fully available from the WP4 via the CerealsDB website, the most frequently accessed cereals research database in the world. The Breeders Toolkit model is being adopted by other wheat programmes in the US, Germany, Canada, and France. Frequent follow up requests are made for molecular markers and more germplasm. UK breeders have made strong statements of support for DFW. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education,Environment |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/toolkit.htm |
| Description | The Breeders Toolkit has been supplied to nine commercial wheat breeding partners upon request who have conducted multi site trials of this material. The Toolkit is accompanied by molecular markers which tag the loci of interest. These resources have been used within commercial breeding programmes to introgress the new versions of genes represented in the toolkit into elite germplasm. Multiple downloads of genotypic data sets have been made on CerealsDB. Germplasm resources such as NILs, NAM populations, chromosome segment substitution lines,mutagenized lines, and lines carrying wheat wild relative segments have been requested by multiple academic and commercial partners. A new panel, upstream of the BTK, has been established. It is called the Breeders Observation Panel. NIAB, Nottingham, and JIC have contributed over 200 lines to this panel to allow proactive breeder led screening to identify new leads that will feed into the BTK. It is a sign of the maturity of WP3 germplasm development work and the Toolkit pipeline that 2 Breeders Toolkit lines are now wild relative introgressions from Ambylopyrum mutica. This represents the most challenging aspect of introgression for WP3. The Breeders toolkit committee met in February 2020 at NIAB. The Committee overseas continued multi site commercial and academic trials of the DFW Breeders Toolkit. In an anonymous survey to commercial members of the Breeders Toolkit Committee 100% of respondents stated that they are using the Breeders Toolkit within their commercial programmes and that they thought it was likely that their use of the Breeders Toolkit would have a beneficial effect on their commercial outputs. Together with WP1 we have introduced new allelic variation (alongside the perfect KASP markers) into the Breeder's Toolkit including near isogenic lines with the novel: grain length mutations, triple mutants for ARF2.1, triple mutants for GW2 and combined mutants for GW2 and the grain length effect; crop height genes; semi dwarfing alleles; increased fibre genes; and spike fertility genes. Our findings have stimulated trait prioritisation and focus for commercial and academic partners alike. We have increased the emphasis on nutritional quality and invited representatives of the National Association of British and Irish Millers as observers on the Breeders Toolkit Committee to help develop this area in line with commercial needs. In spite of COVID commercial breeders continued to grow the DFW Breeders Toolkit. The September meeting went ahead and the harvest 2021 Breeders Toolkit was selected, distributed to breeders, and sown on commercial sites. New resources were developed such as As part of WP1 we have introduced new allelic variation (alongside the perfect KASP markers) into the Breeder's Toolkit including near isogenic lines with novel mutations in a grain length and specific weight gene (P1). We have also identified novel haplotypes across chromosome 6A which could be of potential agronomic value in UK environments. Within WP3 these are being introduced into two different UK backgrounds to assess their effects. Full sets of KASP markers have been developed allowing the selection of wild wheat introgressions in breeding. Breeders have used to populations to screen for disease resistance in the Breeders Observation panel. This has resulted in the discovery of new resistances for yellow rust and barley yellow dwarf virus. Breeders have requested numerous molecular markers developed within WP3 to trach these traits and others. In 2022 we see new pre-breeding selection producing very high yields in the Breeders Toolkit with breeders providing testimonies on the way in which they incorporate these outputs into their own breeding programmes. New molecular markers for landraces and wild relatives have been taken up by many breeders. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education |
| Impact Types | 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 | AGG Wheat Scientific and Technical Steering Committee |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| 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 | Discussion with DEFRA on gene editing |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | MSc course on Model to Crop |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | MSc course on Wheat Yield |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| 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 | Problems caused by introgessions |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Wheat breeding companies were made aware about the effect that introgressions have on recombination and why this may lead to difficulties in the future, this has caused some companies to re-examine their breeding strategies |
| Description | RTB ISC |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a advisory committee |
| URL | http://www.rtb.cgiar.org/independent-steering-committee/ |
| Description | Three lectures for PLL1 last year Plant Science course |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Three lectures for PLL1 last year Plant Science course (2022) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | A pipeline for efficient recombination in wheat |
| Amount | £200,364 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/W003317/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | BBSRC Flexible Talent Mobility Award (FTMA) |
| Amount | £25,000 (GGP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | DataHarvest: delivering large-scale research field trial capabilities to the UK crop R&D sector |
| Amount | £343,969 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S019596/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 06/2020 |
| Description | IWYP Call 2 - Isolation of genetic variation for flowering morphology for hybrid wheat production. |
| Amount | £679,165 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S012796/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2018 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| 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 | International workshops |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | PolyBléD - Quelles nouvelles polyploïdisations réaliser pour améliorer l'adaptation du blé tendre aux contraintes à venir? |
| Amount | € 467,331 (EUR) |
| Organisation | French Wheat Research Fund (FSOV) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| 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 | Transforming India's Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment for Sustainable food Supplies |
| Amount | £7,035,021 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/P027970/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2017 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | University of Nottingham Beacon fellowship |
| Amount | £45,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 04/2019 |
| Description | University of Nottingham internal GCRF awards |
| Amount | £150,344 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | Unlocking genetic variation in wild species for durum wheat |
| Amount | £300,100 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | RPG-2022-044 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 05/2027 |
| 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 |
| Description | Yellowhammer: A multi-locus strategy for durable yellow rust resistance in wheat, in the face of a rapidly changing pathogen landscape |
| Amount | £548,682 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/R019231/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Title | Breeders tool kit meeting |
| Description | Novel wheat lines and novel wheat molecular markers to be transferred to the commercial sector |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Novel materials and markers to be supplied to the wheat breeding community |
| Title | Development of molecular markers for the detection and characterisation of wheat/wild relative introgressions |
| Description | Development of molecular markers (KASP assays) that will allow the identification and characterisation of wheat/wild relative introgressions |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This work is enabling us and other research groups to determine which lines carry introgressions and also their location within the wheat genome. |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/wrc/news/news.aspx |
| Title | New markers and new genotyping platform for wheat breeding |
| Description | New Axiom markers for use in wheat breeding |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | New markers and new GbyS genotyping platform for screening and genotyping wheat |
| Title | CerealsDB |
| Description | The CerealsDB web-site was created by members of the Functional Genomics Group at the University of Bristol. The site provides a range of facilities for the study of the wheat genome. The site has been designed with breeders in mind, and we hope that is will be easy and straightforward to use. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There have been over 1,528,817 unique visits to the websites and our various datasets have been downloaded 48,295 times (35K Wheat breeders Array: 45,445 downloads and 820K High Density Wheat Array; 2,850 downloads). The trend of increased numbers of researchers visiting our web site shows no sign of slowing down; running as it is at greater than 50,000 unique visits per month. |
| URL | http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/ |
| Title | DFW landrace pillar website, data repository, and user guide. |
| Description | This is where all data generated for landrace cultivars within WP3 (Germplasm) of DFW is made available to the wider community. This includes the composition of the Breeders Toolkit, The AE Watkins whole collection, The AE Watkins core collection (1050), the Gediflux historic collection of winter wheats (430), Paragon x Watkins NAM populations (12000), over 90 genetic maps, QTL data, a large number of near isogenic lines developed from Watkins landrace cultivar alleles, and detailed descriptions of how these resources can be applied to diverse questions in wheat research and breeding and how to access them. Although some genotypic information is presented here the main route for accessing the information is by linkage to Cerealsdb. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The website is the portal by which a number of research groups have queried DFW germplasm and then requested these resources. Germplasm requests are now handles by the derived germplasm specialist within the Germplasm Resource Unit. |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Dataverse repository of nested association mapping populations including high density genotyping and genetic maps aligned to wheat genome |
| Description | Segregating populations made with key CIMMYT parents and linking to UK wheat programme parents. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This is the first CIMMYT NAM population. Over 250 downloads. Does not use DOIs but 'handles' see hdl:11529/10996 |
| URL | https://data.cimmyt.org/dataverse/iwypdvn |
| Title | Introgression plotter added to Cerealsdb |
| Description | Software to allow users to screen wheat germplasm for potential introgressions from wheat relative |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | At the request of the wheat breeding companies we have made this tool available via Cerealsdb so that breeders can check on the presence of possible introgressed regions in the bread wheat genome |
| 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 | QTL database |
| Description | Upload of QTL database to Cerealsdb |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Breeders and academics are now able to download/examine various QTL-based datasets |
| Title | SeedStor DFW contribution |
| Description | Visibility of DFW germplasm and data linkages has been upgraded through new accession numbers and browsing windows within the SeedStore database of the Germplasm Resource Unit. This includes new categories for the prurified Watkins collection, DFW Toolkit, and DFW Breeders Toolkit. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This transition ensures that the DFW germplasm visibility, distribution and maintenance is conducted to a very high standard in the long term. |
| URL | https://www.seedstor.ac.uk/search-browsecollections.php |
| Title | Supporting data for "CropSight: a scalable and open-source information management system for distributed plant phenotyping and IoT-based crop management." |
| Description | High-quality plant phenotyping and climate data lay the foundation of phenotypic analysis and genotype-environment interaction, providing important evidence not only for plant scientists to understand the dynamics between crop performance, genotypes, and environmental factors, but also for agronomists and farmers to closely monitor crops in fluctuating agricultural conditions. With the rise of Internet of Things technologies (IoT) in recent years, many IoT-based remote sensing devices have been applied to plant phenotyping and crop monitoring, which are generating terabytes of biological datasets every day. However, it is still technically challenging to calibrate, annotate, and aggregate the big data effectively, especially when they were produced in multiple locations, at different scales.
CropSight is a PHP and SQL based server platform, which provides automated data collation, storage, and information management through distributed IoT sensors and phenotyping workstations. It provides a two-component solution to monitor biological experiments through networked sensing devices, with interfaces specifically designed for distributed plant phenotyping and centralised data management. Data transfer and annotation are accomplished automatically though an HTTP accessible RESTful API installed on both device-side and server-side of the CropSight system, which synchronise daily representative crop growth images for visual-based crop assessment and hourly microclimate readings for GxE studies. CropSight also supports the comparison of historical and ongoing crop performance whilst different experiments are being conducted. As a scalable and open-source information management system, CropSight can be used to maintain and collate important crop performance and microclimate datasets captured by IoT sensors and distributed phenotyping installations. It provides near real-time environmental and crop growth monitoring in addition to historical and current experiment comparison through an integrated cloud-ready server system. Accessible both locally in the field through smart devices and remotely in an office using a personal computer, CropSight has been applied to field experiments of bread wheat prebreeding since 2016 and speed breeding since 2017. We believe that the CropSight system could have a significant impact on scalable plant phenotyping and IoT-style crop management to enable smart agricultural practices in the near future. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Upgrade to cerealsdb (cerealsdb3) |
| Description | We have carried out a significant upgrade of cerealsdb to include new analytical tools and a much larger data set |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Increased level of data downloads and use of tools to detect introgressions in wheat |
| URL | http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/cerealgenomics/CerealsDB/indexNEW.php |
| 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 | This resource consists of TILLING populations developed in tetraploid durum wheat cv 'Kronos' and hexaploid bread wheat cv 'Cadenza' as part of a joint project between the University of California Davis, Rothamsted Research, The Earlham Institute, and John Innes Centre. We have re-sequenced the exome of 1,535 Kronos and 1,200 Cadenza mutants using Illumina next-generation sequencing, aligned this raw data to the IWGSC Chinese Spring chromosome arm survey sequence, identified mutations, and predicted their effects based on the protein annotation available at Ensembl Plants. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Over 5000 access |
| 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 | 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 Genetic Diversity Toolkit to Maximize Harvest Index by Controlling the Duration of Developmental Phases a three month vist to CIMMYT headquarters |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I worked with CIMMYT staff to develop ideas and approaches for future research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They showed me how the CIMMYT physiology and breeding programmes operate. |
| Impact | Submission of a grant application to the International wheat yield partnership (IWYP). |
| 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 | 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 | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Department | Bayer CropScience Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | DSV |
| Department | DSV UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | Elsoms Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | LS Plant Breeding |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | RAGT Seeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Germplasm WP works closely with the Germplasm Resource Unit (BBSRC National Capability) to produce and maintain the Breeders Toolkit Germplasm. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Breeders Toolkit Committee is composed of DFW Commercial breeding representatives from KWS, RAGT, Limagrain, DSV, LSPB, Syngenta, Elsoms, and Bayer. From DFW it has leaders (1-4), and further institutional representation from NIAB, Bristol University, and Nottingham University. The committee decides which genetic effects are entered as Toolkit candidates and then Breeders Toolkit. |
| Impact | This group has been central to the formation of Breeders Toolkit and it's assessment on eleven independent sites in the UK and France. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboartion with Syngenta to exchnage knowledge on trasformation and double haploid production |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Department | Syngenta Ltd (Bracknell) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | exchange of personal to improve our technology in double haploid production |
| Collaborator Contribution | Spent time at Syngenta providing input into transformation technolgy |
| Impact | Better transformation and double haploid technology available to Bristol |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| 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 | ICARDA MOU |
| Organisation | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas |
| Country | Syrian Arab Republic |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A long term agreement has been made (including an MOU) between the University of Nottingham and ICARDA to supply germplasm generated in the research program to ICARDA for large scale phenotypic analysis in Africa. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ICARDA are providing information on trait analysis of the lines we have generated. This will enable us to identify key germplasm that will be used for the development of superior varieties |
| Impact | Germplasm has been sent to ICARDA and germplasm has been sent from ICARDA to Nottingham |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | India |
| Organisation | Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A long term agreement (above and beyond the present program) has been made between the University of Nottingham and the IIWBR to supply India with germplasm generated in the research program for large scale phenotypic analysis in India. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The IIWBR are providing information on trait analysis of the lines we have generated. This will enable us to identify key germplasm that will be used for the development of superior varieties |
| Impact | Germplasm has been supplied to India and phenotypic data has been provided to Nottingham |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| 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 | MOU - CIMMYT |
| Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A new memorandum of understanding and agreement has been signed by the University of Nottingham and CIMMYT. Germplasm generated in the research programm is now being supplied to CIMMYT for large scale phenotypic analysis in Mexico. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CIMMYT are providing information on trait analysis of the lines we have generated. This will enable us to identify key germplasm that will be used for the development of superior varieties |
| Impact | Germplasm has been sent from Nottingham to CIMMYT for analysis |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | MOU-University of Sydney |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are providing germplasm to the University of Sydney/Plant Breeding Institute |
| Collaborator Contribution | The University of Sydney are screening our germplasm for drought tolerance, water use efficiency and for genes resistant to rust. |
| Impact | Introgression lines currently being analysed for drought tolerance and disease resistance in Australia. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Utilisation of wheat wild relatives to develop novel, resilient, high-yielding wheat varieties adapted to environmental change for low- and middle-income countries |
| Organisation | Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources |
| Country | Malawi |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Nottingham is providing germplasm (wheat/wild relative introgression lines) for field trait analysis in Malawi. Nottingham is also providing molecular markers and data developed by the Wheat Research Centre for introgressions from wheat wild relatives which will enable their transfer into Malawian wheat genotypes as a tool for marker-assisted selection and breeding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lilongwe University of Agricultural and Natural Resources will undertake field phenotyping of the wheat/wild relative introgression lines developed at Nottingham for biotic and abiotic stresses of significant importance in Malawi. |
| Impact | This programme has only recently been initiated and therefore it is too early for any outputs or outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Title | Breeders Toolkit |
| Description | Near Isogenic Lines and mutant lines carrying introgressed alleles selected for multi site assessment by breeding companies, as decided by the DFW Breeders Toolkit Committee |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Protection not required |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Transfer of new alleles discovered in Prebreeding LOLA,WISP and DFW to commercial breeding prgrammes. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | AICC Conference keynote |
| 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 | AICC Conference keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Advisory board feedback for USDA CAP |
| 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 | As a member of the three person advisory board we hear updates on the progress of USDA CAP and provide feedback for the consortium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.triticeaecap.org/about/t-cap-scientific-advisory-board/ |
| 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 | Argentinian International Wheat Congress (keynote) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening keynote Argentinian International Wheat Congress |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Article in Farmers Guardian |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview for an article published in Farmers Guardian "Genetic techniques will change varieties available by 2027" offering insights into the way in which research will shape the future of UK farming. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.fginsight.com/news/news/genetic-techniques-will-change-varieties-available-by-2027-21106 |
| Description | Association of French Breeders workshop |
| 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 | NIAB hosted Association of French Breeders workshop on wheat pre-breeding including talks, glasshouse and field demonstrations at NIAB Sophi Taylor (6/7/17). Increased international coordination on pre-breeding and shared examples of best practice and impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | 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 Cross-Institute Breeding Workshop |
| 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 | Attendance at BBSRC Cross-Institute workshop on predictive plant & animal breeding at Roslin Institute 08/10/2018 |
| 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 visit |
| 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 | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Steve Visscher (Head of International Strategy, BBSRC) to discuss pre-breeding & visit plots 9/6/18 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BCPC talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 11/7/19: Invited talk "What accelerated plant breeding has to offer" BCPC Conference - presenting the progress in crop improvement and tools & technologies available at an industry-focused event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BMGF Grand Challenges 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 | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Grand Challenges" meeting, Berlin, Germany flipchart "Tools & technologies to accelerate cereal crop genetic gain" 15/10/18 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 engagment on resistance to slug damage in Watkins cultivars |
| 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 | Consultation with representatives of wheat breeding companies to decide next steps in research and prebreeding for slug resistance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee Maeeting at Bayer CropScience Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Breeders Toolkit Committee met to decide on which of the nominated alleles and lines should be included in the Breeders Toolkit for the production of derived germplasm by the GRU and DFW WP3 and future commercial multi site trials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/toolkit.htm |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Committee meeting at Limagrain UK Woolpi Suffolk 25th February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Breeders Toolkit (BTK) Committee considered nominations of new loci for inclusion in the Toolkit and BTK. Targets were selected for height reduction, increased dietary zinc in wheat grains (x2), and increased grain size. The Committee agreed the development of new segregating populations with WP3 of DFW based on exciting leads for aphid resistance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/toolkit.htm |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit Visits |
| 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 | Breeders Toolkit visits to commercial breeding sites growing the 2021 Breeders Toolkit Kit (Syngenta, RAGT, DSV, LSOB, Limagrain, Elsoms, RAGT, KWS) and the academeic hubs (Nottingham, NIAB, and Rothamsted). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designingfuturewheat.org.uk/breeders-toolkit/ |
| Description | Breeders Toolkit commercial visits |
| 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 | From the 4th to the 6th July DFW and Germplasm Resource Unit scientists visited 9 commercial and academic sites where the DFW Breeders Toolkit was being grown. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/toolkit.htm |
| Description | Breeders Toolkt site visits |
| 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 | Visits to commercial and academic sites conducting experiments/trials using the DFW Breeders Toolki |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://wisplandracepillar.jic.ac.uk/toolkit.htm |
| Description | CAU teaching course |
| 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 | Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, China teaching "Modern Crop Science" short course (1 week) December 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CIMMYT wheat breeding visit to NIAB |
| 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 | CIMMYT wheat breeding visit to NIAB: Alexey Morgounov and Tom Payne (16/6/17) including meeting and field visit to inspect breeding material in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CIMMYT-UK Bill and Melinda Gates World Cafe |
| 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 | World café discussion on future collaboration between DFW and CIMMYT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CIMMYT-UK wheat meeting, Windsor |
| 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 | Attendance at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation UK-CIMMYT wheat workshop exploring linkages between ongoing work and opportunities for future funding/collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | CSIRO talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30/06/2018 Invited talk "Progress in wheat pre-breeding and trait genetics at NIAB" at CSIRO, Canberra, Australia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cambridge-Africa Day |
| 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 | Attendance at Cambridge-Africa 10th Anniversary meeting (1/5/18) and presentation of a poster detailing NIAB's work on germplasm development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cereals 2017 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 | Participation in NIAB display at Cereals Event, Lincolnshire showing developed germplasm (in field plots) and posters describing key aims. Direct interaction with farmers and industry stakeholders including discussions of the impacts of research on UK and international agriculture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/ |
| Description | Cereals 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 | 13/6/19 Cereals Event, Cambridgeshire for farmers and agricultural industry stakeholders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Chelsea Flower Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Chelsea Flower Show - demonstrated on Genetics Society "A flowering of genetics" Discovery Garden over 3 days: discussing genetics with the general public and demonstrating how plants are a fascinating way to visualise and understand genetics. Highlighting the many different aspects of plant and crop genetics that contribute to everyday life. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://genetics.org.uk/news/centenary-garden-exhibit-at-chelsea-flower-show-2019/ |
| Description | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Cibus 2018, Salone internazionale dell'alimentazione |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Conference organiser of PAG San Diego attracting 3800 plant and animal researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I am on the organising committee of the largest plant and animal ag genomics conference attracting some 3800 researchers, policy makers, industry etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | Pre-2006,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Content contributed to publication |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Arable Farming article and other developed content used in article "NFU view on plant breeding innovation" published in Food, Science and Technology by Tori Morgan |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.nfuonline.com/cross-sector/science-and-technology/biotechnology/nfu-view-on-plant-breedi... |
| 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 | CropTec |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at CropTec "Designing Future Wheat" 28/11/2018, Peterborough, UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 Breeders Toolkit Questionnaire |
| 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 | An anonymous questionnaire gauging the perception and use of the DFW Breeders Toolkit within breeding companies. The outcome of the survey shows that the BTK process is highly valued by the breeding industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-KB9YKHCMV/ |
| Description | DFW Breeders Toolkit tour |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted NIAB field nursery visit as part of the Designing Future Wheat Breeders Toolkit tour - displaying germplasm being developed and selected at NIAB (2/7/19) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DFW Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Field presentation on NIAB pre-breeding at DFW Open Day at Rothamsted Research - highlighting NIAB's pre-breeding germplasm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | 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 AHDB |
| 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 | Discussion on gene editing with AHDB |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Discussion on gene editing with Mid Anglia branch of the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) |
| 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 | Discussion on gene editing with Mid Anglia branch of the Institute of Agricultural Management (IAgrM) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 National SouthWest 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on gene editing with NFU National SouthWest 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 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DivSeek UK node meeting and invited talk "Phenotyping for Seed Diversity" 30/10/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EBI visit |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with EBI staff on future opportunities for collaboration in agri-data (NIAB) 21/09/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 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 | Engagement with industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with technology provider regarding optimisation of new technology for wheat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with breeder regarding marker development for tracking introgressions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with industry |
| 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 | Meeting with technology provider regarding a new genotyping platform and its application |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Germplasm exchange for technical development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with service providers for genotyping technical development |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Transfer of markers to technology provider to aid the development of a new genotyping platform |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ensembl4breeders - focus group on Ensembl resources and how it could be improved for the breeding community |
| 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 | Tally Wright was a participant in Ensembl4breeders - focus group on Ensembl resources and how it could be improved for the breeding community, a workshop held on 22/02/19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Eric Danquah visit to NIAB |
| 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 | Visit to NIAB of Eric Danquah, Director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement to discuss partnership opportunities (2/5/18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Essex lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited guest lecture "Wheat breeding and genetics" University of Essex 2nd Year Undergraduate Plant Sciences (22/01/2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FSOV meeting presentation |
| 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 at GIEC FSOV meeting "Differentially penalized regression improves genomic prediction of wheat flowering time" |
| 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 | GFS working group |
| 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 | Co-chair of a Working Group (convened by UKRI Global Food Security) of crop breeders and climate modellers with a purpose to improve communication and information sharing between groups and to establish the current and potential capability for future work. Over two interactive workshops a report is being developed to address opportunities in research, practice, data and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/activity/working-group-of-crop-breeders-and-climate-modellers/ |
| Description | GRDC visit |
| 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 | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Visit & talk for GRDC Australia visitors to NIAB: Craig Ruchs (Senior Regional Manager) and Stephen Loss (Manager Nutrition and Soils) "A trait-based understanding of wheat nitrogen response" 04/10/2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Gender equality talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk on career history to 'Women in Wheat' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Genetics & Breeding research overview |
| 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 | Meeting with Kristian Bennetsen & Griff Williams - to provide an overview of NIAB Genetics & Breeding research |
| 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 | Heredity Podcast |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Heredity Podcast "The crop specialist: an interview with Dr Alison Bentley": understanding the work that NIAB do and the motivations behind pursuing a career in applied crop science. Also a highlight on the need for large-scale field work to understand what happens in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nature.com/hdy/podcast |
| Description | Hugo Oliviera visit |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Hugo Oliviera from University of Manchester to discuss collaborative opportunities in wheat genetics and pre-breeding (20/4/18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | IARI, India lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Technology-driven plant breeding" invited lecture at Department of Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research institute, New Dehli, India to 50 faculty members/staff/students and Department of Biotechnology representative |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | IWYP visit |
| 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 | Hosting International Wheat Yield Partnership Programme Conference - visit to NIAB, including talks, glasshouse and field tour (80 international visitors) 12/6/19 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | India plenary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary lecture by Ian King at the 4th International Group Meeting on 'Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices' at CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University. Discussions about collaborations are currently ongoing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 for Arable Farming magazine |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview for comments/quotes published in 'Tools for a new plant breeding era', Andrew Blake, Arable Farming, June 2017 p26 - 27. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture at the International Wheat Congress, Saskatoon, Canada |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited lecture UEA - wheat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited MSc lecture at University of East Anglia "Wheat projects at NIAB" including specific focus on wheat pe-breeding (Germplasm), cereal nitrogen response (CINTRIN) and development of pollination control bags (12/12/19) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited seminar (Cranfield University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar at Cranfield University "Technology-driven plant breeding" followed by Q&A and networking event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited seminar (Indian Institute of Science) |
| 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 on "Developments in wheat genetics and breeding" at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (24/5/17) including a detailed Q&A and visits to a number of key departments to discuss future collaborative opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited seminar (The University of Bristol, Biological Sciences) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar (3/4/17) followed by networking lunch at The University of Bristol to describe work with a view to sharing knowledge and establishing new collaborative partnerships |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited seminar (The University of Southampton DTP summer school) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar on "Developments in wheat genetics and breeding" at University of Southampton Food Security Doctoral Training Programme summer school (27/4/17) including 1 hour seminar, Q&A and attendance at networking dinner allowing extended discussions with Food Security PhD students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited seminar University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar University of Leeds "Diversity and trait discovery for wheat improvement" including full day of discussion about opportunities for wider collaboration. Leading to further exchange of information, access to field trials and collaborative experiments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited speaker University of Reading |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the genetics of adaptation in wheat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited speaker at PlantGen2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on genetics of adaptation in bread wheat |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.google.co.uk/search?dcr=0&ei=a4WmWpCDJ6GUgAaRpKLwDg&q=plantgen+2017&oq=plantgen+2017&gs_... |
| Description | Invited speaker at Rank Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the identification of new and useful genetic variation for improving nutritional value of wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited talk (Hutchinsons Arable Conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on "Future Seeds & Technology" at Hutchinsons Arable Conference, Northampton (~220 agronomists) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited talk (Hutchinsons Winter Technical Conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote talk at Hutchinsons Winter Technical Conference talk "Breeding tools & traits for sustainable productivity" including Q&A session plus stand with demonstration plants and printed material. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.hlhltd.co.uk/winter-technical-farming-conference-2017-presentations.html |
| Description | Invited talk - postdoc retreat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 8/5/19: Invited talk at University of Cambridge/NIAB Post-doc retreat "NIAB Research & Development" to group of post-doctoral research scientists from University of Cambridge, Sainsbury Lab Cambridge and NIAB. Talk covering work at NIAB, including applied R&D, germplasm development and characterisation. Follow-up requests for fellowship hosting and collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk at John Innes Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at JIC "21st Century Crop Science Women" (23/4/19) covering the integration and application of plant and crop science to a group of ~30 post-graduate scientists. Highlighting gender issues and the importance of institutional support structures, particularly for early career scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk at MonoGram 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30/4/19: Invited talk at the 2019 Monogram UK cereals community meeting in Nottingham entitled "Decoding wheat flowering time variation" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/meeting-report-monogram-2019/ |
| Description | Invited talk at Rothamsted Research Plant Sciences Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at Rothamsted Plant Sciences Research Day "Technology-driven plant breeding" (13/7/17) covering research areas, findings and future directions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited talk at University of Leicester |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar University of Leicester "Bridging the gap - development of resources underpinning crop improvement" (15/5/19). Also included a full day of discussions on future collaborations leading to preparation of joint experiments and student training. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 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 Breeders Day |
| 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 | Tours of JICs experimental farm (Church Farm) with presentations by project leaders to show how their research can be applied in plant breeding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | JIC Breeders Day 8th June JIC |
| 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 | JIC Breeders day is an annual invitation targeting the plant breeding industry to exploit outputs from JIC research. The event is organised by Simon Griffiths, Julie Ellwood, and Cathy Mumford. The focus for 2018 was on human nutrition. |
| 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 update on genetics of low protein bread making |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Update on gene stacking experiments fro wheat functionality QTL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | KWS Lecture |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | Kazakhstan wheat scientists visit to NIAB |
| 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 | Visit of Kazakhstani wheat scientists (x2) to NIAB to discuss UK-Central Asia collaboration (19/12/2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Keynote presentation at 2019 Monogram |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote, plenary lecture at Monogram 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Lecture "Wheat breeding and genetics" University of Essex 2nd Year Undergraduate Plant Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Delivery of undergraduate level lecture on the importance of applied wheat R&D which lead to questions and discussion on career in agriculture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 South African deligation to discuss meiosis, genotyping and wheat breeding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with British Council lead South African delegation to discuss wheat breeding and possible further links |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Meeting with international experts in wheat breeding and recombination |
| 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 | Meeting of international experts in wheat breeding and recombination/marker development to consider future prospects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Melissa Garcia visit |
| 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 | Hosted visit from Melissa Garcia (University of Adelaide, Australia) to discuss collaboration, access to existing data and further germplasm resources (1/11/19) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | NFU conference presentation "GM & beyond: enabling innovations for plant breeding" |
| 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 | Presentation as part of a formal panel at the NFU Annual Conference discussing the role of new breeding technologies for boosting agricultural productivity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | NIAB Breeders Toolkit tour |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosting of Breeders Toolkit field visit to NIAB for partners from JIC and industry partners from Syngenta and LS Plant Breeding (5/7/17) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NIAB Open 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 | 25/6/19 - field demonstration at NIAB Open Day including work on wheat nitrogen response (CINTRIN), use of large-scale trial data (DataHarvest) and development and selection of pre-breeding material (Germplasm) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.niab.com/shop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=2920 |
| Description | NIAB Open Day 2017 |
| 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 | NIAB Open Day (27/6/17) including formal presentation of a seminar on the future of plant breeding innovation plus Q&A, tours of breeding material in the field and poster displays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Next-gen wheat breeders |
| 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 | Co-organised "Next-gen wheat breeders" workshop at University of Saskatchwen, Canada including securing funding from the International Wheat Intitiative and organising the programme and speakers. The attendees were selected to represent all major wheat geographies and disciplines. The speakers/mentors were selected for their abilities to inspire and share knowledge with early career scientists. The workshop involved talks, a field visit and interactive discussions to highlight the many opportunities available for cutting edge technology to impact future wheat breeding and research. The workshop was co-developed with Dr Lee Hickey and Dr Kai Voss-Fels from University of Queensland with this partnership building on the NIAB UK-Australia Partnering Award. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Nuffield Bioethics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 18/6/18 Invited talk "Will new plant breeding technologies feed the world" at Nuffield Bioethics event on food sustainability, London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Objects: wheat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Participation in "Objects: Carriers of Knowledge (Wheat)" a multi-disciplinary conversation led by Gloknos and Cambridge Global Food Security. The project assembled a small groups representing the natural, physical, and social sciences as well as the humanities, to discuss wheat as it relate to global food security. Activities included a transdisciplinary discussion at the 2019 Cambridge Science Festival followed by a filmed session in the glasshouse at NIAB which will be released in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/keyprogs/objects |
| Description | Opening Lecture Eucarpia Congress (Budapest) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Opening Lecture@ Eucarpia (Budapest) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | 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 | PAG plenary |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plenary lecture by Julie King at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, January 2019. Discussions about potential collaborations are now in progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | 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 | Plenary lecture (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Plenary invited lecture on "Crop Genetics & Breeding" (25/5/17) at University of Agricultural Science, Bangalore, India as part of the Directorate of Post Graduate Studies "Post Graduate Science Week" 23-26th May 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Update on progress in INEW project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.cerealsdb.uk.net/cerealgenomics/INEW/index.html |
| Description | Presentation at JIC 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 | Describing the DFW Breeders Toolkit to JIC staff and science impact advisory board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at Plant and Animal Genome Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation was W257 Developmental and Physiological Dissection of QTLs in Wheat NAM Populations Stefano Bencivenga, Luzie U. Wingen, Scott Boden and Simon Griffiths, John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxvi/meetingapp.cgi/Person/49737 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Public dialog and debate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A pint of science debate on the price of bread and wheat breeding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Pulse community workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 10/6/18 Invited talk "The UK cereals community & NIAB wheat resources" to UK Pulse Community workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RANK Prize meeting talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Separating the wheat from the chaff: diversity as a driver/destroyer of genetic gain" Invited talk at RANK Prize Fund mini-symposium on "The Shape of Wheat to Come", Windermere, UK (21/2/18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Radio broadcast Farming today |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interview for farming today on wheat breeding and its importance; 14th July 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One hour question and answer interview with Salaam Radio. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Radio interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One hour question and answer interview with Salaam Radio talking about the wheat/wild relative introgression work at The University of Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Radio interview - BBC Crowd Science |
| 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 | BBC Crowd Science - 'Can we turn poisonous plants into edible plants?'. A half hour radio programme trying to answer a question sent in by a listener from the general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/prpgrammes/w3ct1pqc |
| Description | Rank Prize acceptance speech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rank prize (2018) acceptance speech |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.rankprize.org/index.php/prizes/prizes-2018 |
| Description | Rank Symposium on "The shape of wheat to come" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Rank Symposium of "The shape of wheat to come" was a four day event organised by Edwards and Higgins to promote the area of recombination to a wide range of international scientists ranging from PhD students to retired professors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Research presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Research presentation on data obtained in this grant to 4 breeding companies. As a result of these presentations seed has been requested for the IWYP CIMMYT wheat hub, the IWYP winter wheat hub at Kansas and the IWYP winter wheat hub in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Robert Jackson; presentation 'Research trials: impact on agriculture' at NIAB agronomy day |
| 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 | Presentation to NIAB Agronomy Day 'Research trials: impact on agriculture' by Dr Robert Jackson. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Royal visit |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Royal visit of HRH The Queen to NIAB to celebrate NIAB's Centenary. Included an overview of NIAB pre-breeding and genetics research and a demonstration of wheat pre-breeding germplasm in the glasshouse (9/7/19). National and International press coverage of the visit and the work of NIAB. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 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 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 | Seminar Ghent Biosciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar Ghent Biosciences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar University of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar University of Zurich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar University of Zurich |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sensako visit |
| 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 | Visit of Marizanne Horn from Sensako, South Africa to discuss pre-breeding collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Steve Thomas visit to NIAB |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Steve Thomas (Rothamsted Research) to discuss DFW germplasm exchange and collaborative opportunities (9/5/18) |
| 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 at French FSOV-funded project meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk describing novel progress in analysis methods entitled: "From SNP to GEBV: the use of marker and trait data in genomic prediction" (21/4/17) in Paris, France |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Televised report presented on France24 |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A television report describing the importance of wild relatives for crop production and global food security. In addition, the 'Wheat Research Centre twitter account has had over 1000 views of the report to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://france24.com/en/europe/2020 |
| Description | Television interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Television interview on the changing environment and the future use of wheat/wild relative introgressions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | The Atlantic |
| 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 | Contribution to The Atlantic commentary "Scientists Finally Crack Wheat's Absurdly Complex Genome" given on 16/08/2018 |
| 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 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 | 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 | 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 | Turgrass Science Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Turgrass Science Symposium |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tv interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with East Midlands today discussing the changing environment and the future use of the wheat/wild relative introgressions being developed at The University of Nottingham. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UCAM seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge "21st Century Crop Science Women" (17/10/19) including discussion of opportunities for collaboration and enquiries about fellowship placements at NIAB. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UKSBS group visit to NIAB |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation and presentation to "Research Sector" visit to Cambridge arranged by Linda Holliday (Director of Capacity and Skills Development, Medical Research Council, Chair of cross-research sector forum on immigration), Graeme Ross (Head of Immigration at University of Cambridge) and Stephen Longson (Head of Immigration at UKSBS/RCUK). Objective to allow staff from across government departments to experience the global, collaborative nature of science and research taking place in the UK, highlighting some of the interdependencies between immigration policy, research funding, Research Organisations and key stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UWA talk |
| 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 at University of Western Australia "Wheat pre-breeding: germplasm into practice" (10/9/19) followed by tour of facilities and discussion about collaborative opportunities. Additional visit to Curtin University to discuss collaboration in wheat pathogen research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Undergraduate Industrial lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited industrial lecture (12/12/18) on "Wheat genetics & breeding" at University of Essex (2nd Year undergrads) giving them context within their Food Security coursework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Visit of Agrii to NIAB |
| 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 | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Agrii to NIAB (20/7/17) to tour wheat pre-breeding plots and discuss potential collaborations taking material forward to commercialisation for specific end-uses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of GRDC (Australia) to NIAB |
| 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 | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Hosted visit of the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) to NIAB (28/9/17) to explore partnering opportunities and to promote collaborations in crop breeding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of HarvestPlus representative to NIAB |
| 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 | Visit to NIAB of Jenny Walton (HarvestPlus) to discuss collaborative plant breeding opportunities (1/2/18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit of KWS Biostatistics team |
| 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 | Visit to NIAB of KWS Biostatistics team (based in Germany) 4 visitors to discuss statistical progress and collaborative opportunities (24/1/18) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit of KWS wheat breeders to NIAB |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Mark Dodds and Lisa Bergstein, KWS wheat breeding to NIAB pre-breeding plots to select material to progress (12/7/17) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of Prof Ian Edwards (University of Western Australia) to NIAB |
| 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 | Hosted visit of Prof Ian Edwards, University of Western Australia to NIAB to discuss collaborative NUE results and progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of SRUC scientists to NIAB |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Visit to NIAB Jos Houdijk and JR Adams from SRUC (Edinburgh) with discussion of plant breeding & animal feeding opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of Wageningen University Plant Breeding students to NIAB |
| 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 | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit of Wageningen Plant Breeding students to NIAB (11/7/17) - including talk (overview of NIAB research and Q&A), glasshouse and field tour |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Visit of working group from Government of Punjab (Pakistan) |
| 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 | Talk delivered to Government of Punjab (Pakistan) visitors (20) "Pre-breeding at NIAB" and glasshouse tour (7/12/17) including Q&A and discussion of collaborative opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | • EPSO-EC Conference at EXPO Milano |
| 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 | EU meeting on new breeding technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |