Germplasm Resources for Crop Improvement in the Developing World
Lead Research Organisation:
JOHN INNES CENTRE
Abstract
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Technical Summary
Wheat provides in excess of 20% of the human population’s total dietary energy intake. In developing countries, demographic changes and rapid urbanisation will result in a significant increase in the demand for wheat. Unfortunately, wheat yields in developing countries are often poor and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses is often low. Without improved varieties it is unlikely that the increased demand for wheat will be met and the risks of food insecurity adequately addressed. Furthering our BBSRC funded ‘reach’ we will enable scientists in developing countries to access new germplasm and exploit new sources of genetic diversity, enabling the development of high-yielding wheat varieties in developing countries with resistance to local biotic and abiotic stresses. This deliverable exploits the strength of JIC’s germplasm resource unit and its collection of historical wheat-Triticeae cytogenetic stocks. This deliverable is based on the well-understood needs of partners in India, Bangladesh and Brazil, and includes CIMMYT
Planned Impact
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Organisations
- JOHN INNES CENTRE (Lead Research Organisation)
- Bayer (Collaboration)
- Kansas State University (Collaboration)
- University of Minnesota (Collaboration)
- Heliospectra AB (Collaboration)
- 2Blades Foundation (Collaboration)
- University of California (Collaboration)
- IPK Gatersleben (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- Novogene Corporation (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan (Collaboration)
- University of Maryland (Collaboration)
- Syngenta International AG (Collaboration)
- U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA (Collaboration)
- KWS UK (Collaboration)
- The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (Collaboration)
- Ilam University (Collaboration)
- DIALUNOX (Collaboration)
- Punjab Aricultural University (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB) (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Zentrum München (Collaboration)
- Limagrain (Collaboration)
- EARLHAM INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Michael Ambrose (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Gaurav K
(2022)
Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement.
in Nature biotechnology
Hickey LT
(2019)
Breeding crops to feed 10 billion.
in Nature biotechnology
| Title | 2nd Prize in Engaging Images Art Competition, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts |
| Description | Josh Waites' artwork based on the MARPLE wheat rust diagnostic tool from the @Saunders_Lab came second in the Engaging Images Art Competition. Due to MARPLE's use in Ethiopia, he painted it in a traditional orthodox Ethiopian art style. It was displayed at The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts during the month of December 2019. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Not aware of any. |
| URL | https://twitter.com/JoshOWaites/status/1203311578571059200 |
| Title | Blog on "Wild wheat, plant genomics, and food security" |
| Description | I wrote a blog for the Global Engage conference "Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress: Europe". |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The blog was well received and widely tweeted. |
| URL | http://www.global-engage.com/agricultural-biotechnology/wild-wheat-plant-genomics-and-food-security/ |
| Title | What is AgRenSeq |
| Description | An animation describing our enabling technology "AgRenSeq" for rapidly discovering and cloning disease resistance genes in plant genomes. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The Youtube video has been viewed 1919 times since it was uploaded in February 2019 (i.e. nearly two years ago). |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xefrjg5Y_Ug |
| Description | 1. Bulking up all 270 lines through SSD to generate pure stocks to compartmentalize the diversity. 2. Mutation were annotated and the information (retrogression /addition/substitution ) was made accessible online through SeedStor. 3. The collection was duplicated and transferred to partners in India and Canada as an entire resource to further exploit its unique potential for genomic studies. 4. Since the start of the project, 263 samples were provided to partners in 15 countries from the assembled collection. 5. A capture array for molecular markers (COS) was designed and successfully tested. 6. A subset of the collection was screened against a virulent isolate of Z. tritici. Two lines with strong resistance were identified. The best line has been shared with DFW collaborators in Nottingham University and is currently subject to a cytogenetics study to break up the alien chromosome to reduce linkage drag with a view to future field trial performance in DFW. |
| Exploitation Route | 1. The Annotated mutation are highly accessible on line through SeedStor - the retrogression /addition/substitution information are currently investigated by numerous end users of the resource. 2. The collection was duplicated and transferred to partners in India and Canada as an entire resource to further exploit its unique potential for genomic studies. 4. Since the start of the project, 204 samples were provided to partners in 14 countries from the assembled collection. The few end users that publicly shared the information are investigating several agronomic traits including disease resistance and stress hardiness for changing climatic environment. 5. Two lines that were identified as Z. tritici resistant has been shared with BBSRC supported Designing Future Wheat consortium members in Nottingham University and is currently subject to a cytogenetics study to break up the alien chromosome to reduce linkage drag with a view to future field trial performance as part of DFW. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink |
| URL | http://www.seedstor.ac.uk |
| Description | BBSRC NRP-DTP iCASE |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Cloning and characterization of Sr43 and stem rust resistance genes SrA, SrB, SrC and SrD from Aegilops sharonensis |
| Amount | £100,165 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Two Blades Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 06/2019 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | GCRF-IAA funding: Wheat blast resistance partnership development with Bangladesh |
| Amount | £17,486 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/GCRF-IAA/17/11 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Genetic control of trichomes in Aegilops tauschii |
| Amount | £2,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Amount | £316,622 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Global Challenges Research Fund - Data and Resources |
| Amount | £897,694 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Description | OWWC gene cloning |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Safeguarding our daily bread from wheat rust diseases |
| Amount | £2,930 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | Understanding and exploiting genetic diversity in wheat for yellow rust resistance |
| Amount | £113,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Title | Open Wild Wheat raw sequences |
| Description | We provide access to whole genome shotgun sequences of a genetically diverse panel of 151 accessions of Aegilops tauschii generated under the aegis of the Open Wild Wheat Consortium (www.openwildwheat.org). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We have used the data to implement a 'shotgun' genome-wide association study (GWAS) pipeline for rapid gene discovery and identificaiton. Based on this, we have identified candidate genes for stem rust, wheat blast and trichome density. We have had very many requests from the community to implement this technology, and we expect it will fuel an exponential rise in cloned genes within the Triticeae. |
| URL | https://opendata.earlham.ac.uk/wheat/under_license/toronto/Wulff_2018-01-31_OWWC/ |
| Title | SeedStor |
| Description | SeedStor acts as the publicly available database for the seed collections held by the Germplasm Resources Unit (GRU) based at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. The GRU curates germplasm collections of a range of temperate cereal, legume and Brassica crops and their associated wild relatives, as well as precise genetic stocks, near-isogenic lines and mapping populations. With >35,000 accessions of wheat, barley, oat and pea. SeedStor is a fully searchable system that allows our various collections to be browsed species by species through to complicated multipart phenotype criteria-driven queries. The results from these searches can be downloaded for later analysis or used to order germplasm via our shopping cart. The user community for SeedStor is the plant science research community, plant breeders, specialist growers, hobby farmers and amateur gardeners, and educationalists. Furthermore, SeedStor is much more than a database; it has been developed to act internally as a Germplasm Information Management System that allows team members to track and process germplasm requests, determine regeneration priorities, handle cost recovery and Material Transfer Agreement paperwork, manage the Seed Store holdings and easily report on a wide range of the aforementioned tasks. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The work of JIC has become more efficient and more defective. 1. The unit capacity increased for seed dissemination 2. Automatic prioritization of stock for regeneration ensures that resources are accurately and effectively spent 3. Assosiated information is gradually uloaded to the database adding value to the curated germplasm collections 4. Users enjoy an Amazon like experiance when they order seeds. 5. We are able to comunicate and resieve feedbacks in automated manner to improve our work 6. Reports for the international bodies (EURISCO, FAO) are easily produced 7.Reports to founders funders are easily generated |
| URL | http://www.seedstor.ac.uk |
| Description | Collaboration with Jonathan Jones funded by Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation via 2Blades Foundation |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | The Sainsbury Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have used RenSeq to genotype 200 Watkins wheat landrace lines. |
| Collaborator Contribution | My colleague Jonathan Jones kindly offered to collaborate on the sequence-configuration of our Watkins wheat landrace panel by paying for RenSeq genotyping of 100 lines. |
| Impact | This collaboration has allowed us to increase the size of our sequence configured panel from 200 to 300. This will improve the resolution wich which we can discover and clone resistance genes in the panel. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | European Evaluation Network (EVA) of Wheat and Barley |
| Organisation | IPK Gatersleben |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | 1. Participating in ECPGR Workshop for the establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley, 2. Choosing instrumental wheat diversity greatly needed to compete the objectives of EVA on time. The germplasm was supplied acording to teh climatic regions of Europe based on previous studies in JIC. The European Evaluation Network (EVA, 2019-2022) project funded by the German government. Each year a different batch of European genebank accessions will be multiplied and then evaluated in multiple locations for disease resistance. The data will be provided to EURISCO and made widely available after an embargo period, to incentivise the collaboration of private breeders. The GRU, together with IPK were key for the project start since other European genebanks do not hold collections amenable for genotyping and thus require two more years of preparation. The GRU agreed to alleviate the cost which would be recorded by European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) as a UK contribution to the cooperative project. The supplied germplasm has gone through single seed descend and is stable enough to be immediately implemented |
| Collaborator Contribution | Other groups has multiplied the germplasm to levels allowing screening. Next, other groups will evaluate the germplasm to the agreed disease resistance traits. |
| Impact | 1. Vibrant network for collaboration on wheat and barley was established 2.360 Single Seed Derived landrace of wheat from the Watkins collection were chosen according to predicted climate adaptation 3. The lines are currently being multiplied by the industrial partners in the programme |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | European Evaluation Network (EVA) of Wheat and Barley |
| Organisation | The European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 1. Participating in ECPGR Workshop for the establishment of a European Evaluation Network (EVA) on wheat and barley, 2. Choosing instrumental wheat diversity greatly needed to compete the objectives of EVA on time. The germplasm was supplied acording to teh climatic regions of Europe based on previous studies in JIC. The European Evaluation Network (EVA, 2019-2022) project funded by the German government. Each year a different batch of European genebank accessions will be multiplied and then evaluated in multiple locations for disease resistance. The data will be provided to EURISCO and made widely available after an embargo period, to incentivise the collaboration of private breeders. The GRU, together with IPK were key for the project start since other European genebanks do not hold collections amenable for genotyping and thus require two more years of preparation. The GRU agreed to alleviate the cost which would be recorded by European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) as a UK contribution to the cooperative project. The supplied germplasm has gone through single seed descend and is stable enough to be immediately implemented |
| Collaborator Contribution | Other groups has multiplied the germplasm to levels allowing screening. Next, other groups will evaluate the germplasm to the agreed disease resistance traits. |
| Impact | 1. Vibrant network for collaboration on wheat and barley was established 2.360 Single Seed Derived landrace of wheat from the Watkins collection were chosen according to predicted climate adaptation 3. The lines are currently being multiplied by the industrial partners in the programme |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | 2Blades Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | Kansas State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Identification of rust resistance genes in wild emmer wheat |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | My own group will be providing bioinformatics in the form of k-mer-based whole genome shotgun association genetics to identify candidate disease resistance genes from wild emmer. We will also engineer binary vector constructs for wheat transformation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The 2Blades Foundation have brought overall management of the project to the partnership. They will also be responsible for handling IP resulting from the work. Kansas State University and University of Minnesota will configure and sequence the wild wheat diversity panel and phenotype it with several isolates of the wheat stem rust, stripe rust and leaf rust pathogens. |
| Impact | This collaboration has only recently started, so it is too early to list outputs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | 2Blades Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan |
| Department | Institute of Botany, Plant Physiology and Genetics |
| Country | Tajikistan |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Bayer |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | DIALUNOX |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Earlham Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Heliospectra AB |
| Department | Institute Cereal Crops Improvement, Tel Aviv |
| Country | Israel |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Helmholtz Zentrum München |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Ilam University |
| Country | Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | KWS UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Kansas State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Limagrain |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Novogene Corporation |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Punjab Aricultural University |
| Country | India |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | Syngenta International AG |
| Department | Syngenta Crop Protection |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of California |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of Maryland |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Open Wild Wheat Consortium |
| Organisation | University of Minnesota |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We conceived and founded the Open Wild Wheat Consortium, drafted grant proposals, obtained and managed pledges for funds from consortium members (private and public), designed and published the OWWC website, configured the Aegilops tauschii panel, extracted DNA, bulked up seed, distributed seed to >10 collaborators/members, sent DNA for whole genome shotgun sequencing, made raw data available through Grassroots Repository (in collaboration with Earlham Institute), generated draft assemblies of core accessions (in collaboration with CLC), establised whole genome shotgun k-mer-based association genetics pipeline, generated phenotypes for wheat blast (in collaboration with Paul Nicholson) and wheat rusts (in collaboration with Brian Steffenson, Xianming Chen and Jim Kolmer) and drafted manuscript synopsis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided funds for sequencing, helped to manage sequencing (Novogene), provided sequencing discount (Novogene), germplasm (KSU, NIAB, CSIRO, UC Davis), helped configure panel (KSU), helped to store and distribute seed (GRU), and contributed with phenotyping. |
| Impact | This project has brought together a large, international group of people with a common interest in mining wild wheat relatives for useful genetic variation. We have established the primary tools, resources, methods and pipeline to go from phenotypes in a wild wheat relative, identifying the underlying genes to studying the relevance of those genes in adapted germplasm. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Title | Stem rust resistance genes and methods of use |
| Description | Compositions and methods and for enhancing the resistance of wheat plants to wheat stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici are provided. The compositions comprise nucleic acid molecules encoding resistance (R) gene products and variants thereof and plants, seeds, and plant cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules. The methods for enhancing the resistance of a wheat plant to wheat stem mst comprise introducing a nucleic acid molecule encoding an R gene product into a wheat plant cell. Additionally provided are methods for using the wheat plants in agriculture to limit wheat stem rust. |
| IP Reference | US20200362367A1 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | None to date. |
| Title | AgRenSeq - GitHub |
| Description | AgRenSeq is a pipeline to identify candidate resistance (R) genes in plants directly from a diversity panel. The diversity panel needs to be sequenced (R gene enrichment sequencing - RenSeq) and phenotyped. Phenotype scores need to be converted to AgRenSeq scores that assign positive values to resistance and negative values to suscetibility. An intermediate phenotype should have an AgRenSeq score close to zero. For RenSeq you will need a bait library that targets R genes in your plant species. A bait library for Aegilops tauschii can be found here. We reccomend Arbor biosciences for synthesis of baits. They also offer the enrichment service. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Requests for collaboration from academia and industry. |
| Title | k-mer GWAS |
| Description | Python code for k-mer-based reference free genome wide association mapping on whole genome shotgun sequence-configured diversity panels. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | 1) Landmark paper published in Nature Biotechnology (doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01058-4) under the aegis of the Open Wild Wheat Consortium. 2) Patent filed on method development |
| URL | http://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01058-4 |
| Description | Annual Science Meeting 2018, JIC and TSL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to give an update of my work at the JIC and TSL Annual Science Meeting 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BMGF Grand Challenges Meeting, Berlin, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to the BMGF Grand Challenges Meeting, in Berlin, Germany. This has since led to further interactions with the BMGF and DFID funded DGGW project, and a request for a workshop at the next DGGW meeting which will be held in the John Innes Centre in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Breeder toolkit trail sites |
| 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 | The GRU team accompanied by DFW WP3 scientists visited 8 field trail sites in the UK and one site in Germany to examine and discuss in the field the practice and emerging result from the multi-site trail of the Breeder toolkit newly developed lines of wheat. We have visited experiment sites in LSPB, Limagrain, Syngenta, BASF, Elsoms, RAGT, DSV participating breeding companies and JIC and Rothamsted reaserch stations. The annual tour was organised by the GRU breeder toolkit coordinator in collaboration with Designing Future Wheat, WP3 and included 35 breeders and scientists. two members of GRU and DFW WP3 leader had toured all the UK sites. the GRU lead PI has also visited the site in Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://designingfuturewheat.org.uk/breeders-toolkit/ |
| Description | Colloquium, Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Based on my recent opinion pieces on GM crops published in Science I was called upon by physicists in the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany, to give Colloquim presentation. My presentation was recorded and in the ensuing week I was told it was viewed more than 350 times! |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cranfield University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to give a lecture to MSc students on the Cranfield University bioinformatics course. I was asked to come back again in May for a two day visit to teach scientific soft skills for early career scientists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | DivSeek Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon at short notice to give a presentation at the DivSeek workshop on how to exploit germplasm collections for rapid trait identificaiton and deployment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Feeding the Future: Can we protect crops sustainably? Society of Chemical Industry, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to give a talk about the case for GM wheat for disease management, by the Society of Chemical Industry (https://www.soci.org/). They have a vested interest in this topic given that many of their stake holders are affiliated with the agro-chemical (pesticide) industry. I had very positive feedback from my presentation, e.g. see below: "Dear Brande, I had a hunch that your talk would be a highlight for me and I was not disappointed. There was so much in it that I enjoyed listening to and I learned so much. For me, it came down to the key question of 'Can we pull out special genes from wild relatives and insert them into elite wheat?' I was pleased to hear you say that the answer is 'yes' even though there are substantial technical issues to overcome about poor recombination. The new sequencing and mathematical techniques are giving us real prospects for taking things forward. Your example of the variety with the 5 stacked genes was inspiring. If we can do this once, how many more times can we do it? You have inspired me to want to learn so much more. Thank you very much. Very best wishes, James James Garratt CSci Managing Director" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.soci.org/events/protecting-crops-in-a-challenging-future |
| Description | Food Ingreedients: "Speed cloning: Transforming crop disease protection with higher yielding, resilient "elite crops"" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online magazine "Food Ingredients" about protecting crops with cloned resistance genes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/speed-cloning-transforming-crop-disease-protection-with-hi... |
| Description | Group member Postdoc Kumar Gaurav invited to present Keynote Lecture at EuroBiotech, Kraków, Poland, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote Lecture, EuroBiotech, Kraków, Poland, 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eurobiotech.krakow.pl/gb/program-x/program.html |
| Description | Huazhong Agricultural University, China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon by one of my collaborators to present my work at Huazhong Agricultural University, China |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Interview by Deutchlandfunk (German radio station) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In the wake of my Nature Biotechnology paper on rapid resistance gene cloning by associaiton genetics, I was interviewed by Deutchlandfunk, a german radio station equivalent to Radio BBC 4 in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/resistenzgene-bei-pflanzen-hilfe-von-der-starken.676.de.html?dram:art... |
| Description | Invitation to present work at Wiersum Plantbreeding, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to visit Wiersum Plantbreeding in the Netherlands. We discussed potential future collaborative work around the concept of a resistance gene atlas for wheat. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentaiton (plenary session) at the Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions congress in Glasgow 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation of my work at the 2019 MPMI meeting in Glasgow. Based on this, I have since received two additional invitations to give seminars in Oxford University and Edinburgh University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ismpmi.org/Congress/Pages/default.aspx |
| Description | Invited presentation at 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences Eurobiotech, Krakow, Poland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My postdoc Kumar Gaurav was invited to give a Keynote Lecture at the the 7th Central European Congress of Life Sciences Eurobiotech, Krakow, Poland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.eurobiotech.krakow.pl/gb/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at BASF, Belgium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to BASF in Ghent, Belgium to present my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning in crops. We later discussed potential collaborations. This has resulted in further requests for information and discussions on collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Institute of Experimental Botany, Czech Republic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to the Institute of Experimental Botany in the Czech Republic to give a presentation about my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning in Triticeae. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited presentation at KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I visited KAUST to present my work. This has resulted in offers of further collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Kew |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a short seminar on how to exploit genetic variation in crop wild relatives at a joint workshop organised between the John Innes Centre and Kew. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Key's Symposium, Keygene, Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation on my work at Keygene, The Netherlands. This resulted in requests for further information and interactions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Plant Sciences Department, University of Oxford |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work at the Plant Sciences Department at the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Plant and Animal Genome Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My postdoc, Kumar Gaurav, was invited to present our work on rapid gene cloning at PAG. This resulted in requests for further collaboration from groups in USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at Pwani Univeristy, Kenya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As part AfriPlantSci, a two-week course on plant sciences for African scientists, I was invited to give a presentation at Pwani University, Kenya describing my research on rapid gene cloning and speed breeding in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://acaciaafrica.org/afriplantsci/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at Technical University of Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation at the TUM on my speed breeding and rapid gene cloning work in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://portal.mytum.de/termine/Event.2019-03-20.1464449129/event_view? |
| Description | Invited presentation at The Sainsbury Laboratory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work in The Sainsbury Laboratory spring science meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation on my work at the University of Nottingham to share my latest results on rapid resistance gene discovery, cloning and deployment. This resulted in long discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at the 8th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present my work on rapid gene discovery and cloning, and generation advancement at the 8th Plant Genomics & Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.global-engage.com/event/plant-genomics/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation at the LMU about my work on rapid gene isolation and speed breeding in cereals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited presentation at the Wheat Durable Resistance Meeting, Minneapolis, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation at the Wheat Durable Resistance Meeting in Minneapolis, USA. The presentation lead to debate and request for additional information and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/wheatresistance |
| Description | Invited presentation at the Wheat Initiative Expert Working Group, Minneapolis, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to join the wheat Expert Working Group on Control of Wheat Pathogens and Pests and deliver a presentation on available genomics and germplasm resources and what the community needs in this respect. The presentation lead to debate and requests for germplasm sharing with other labs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.wheatinitiative.org/activities/expert-working-groups/control-wheat-pathogens-and-pests |
| Description | Invited presentation by lab member PhD student Sreya Ghosh at Plant and Animal Genome Conference, 2020. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My PhD student Sreya Ghosh was invited to present at PAG, 2020 in San Diego. This resulted in request for additional information and has led to the drafting of a patent application with the 2Blades Foundation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation: 2nd International Plant Genetics & Genomics Symposium, Assiut University, Egypt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation on my wheat gene cloning work at an international meeting hosted by Assiut University, Egypt. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/book/Book_of_Abstracts_IPGG_2020_docx/13079492 |
| Description | Invited presentation: Linné seminar, Swedish Agricultural University, Sweden |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give a presentation on the back of the presentation I gave at the Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions conference in 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation: Novogene European User Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was asked by the sequencing company Novogene, China, to give a presentation reporting on my use of high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics to clone genes from crops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://en.novogene.com/about/news/2020-novogene-european-user-forum/ |
| Description | JIC press release on AgRenSeq: "Rapid gene cloning technique will transform crop disease protection" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The press release was picked up by the national and international media and led to >10 requests for interviews from the press and media, including BBC Radio 4, The Times, Deutchlandfunk and others. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.jic.ac.uk/press-release/rapid-gene-cloning-technique-will-transform-crop-disease-protect... |
| Description | Laboratory News: "Fast Food" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online and print magazine Laboratory News about my new rapid gene cloning technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.popsci.com/crops-disease-resistant-genes |
| Description | Newspaper article in the Times: "Gene analysis speeds up race to beat cereal killer" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was intereviewed by a reporter from The Times on our breakthrough in resistance gene cloning based on phenotyping sequence-configured diversity panels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gene-analysis-speeds-up-race-to-beat-cereal-killer-j2vsht83v |
| Description | Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Congress, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present at a Congress in Rotterdam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Popular Science: "These genetic 'goggles' could help us engineer wildly resilient crops" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed by the online magazine Popular Science about my work on rapid resistance gene cloning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.popsci.com/crops-disease-resistant-genes |
| Description | Postdoc member Kumar Gaurav invited to present at Monogram Workshop, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Monogram Workshop, 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at 4th International Conference "Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms", Vienna, Austria |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my work at the 4th International Conference "Plant Biotic Stresses & Resistance Mechanisms", Vienna, Austria. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://viscea.org/plant-biotic-stresses-resistance-mechanisms-iv-february-19-20-2020/ |
| Description | Presentation at International Wheat Conference, Saskatoon, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | MINING A SEQUENCE-CONFIGURED WILD WHEAT DIVERSITY PANEL FOR GENES REGULATING ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE USING ASSOCIATION GENETICS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at John Innes Centre Wheat Breeders Day 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | We presented a talk on "Mining wild wheat diversity for disease resistance". This sparked questions and discussions. I have been asked to visit BASF in Gent, Belgium to discuss potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Amber Hafeez |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My PhD student Amber N. Hafeez gave a presentation on the concept of a "Resistance Gene Atlas" for wheat. It was well received and we have been asked for further engagement with BGRI, wheat breeders, and researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfOWzqoHfU&feature=youtu.be |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Kumar Gaurav |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My Postdoc Kumar Gaurav was invited to present our work, entitled: "Exploiting diversity in the bread wheat D-genome progenitor" from the Open Wild Wheat Consortium (www.openwildwheat.org). The presentation was well received as evidenced by the questions and ensuing Twitter activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://bgri.cornell.edu/2020-bgri-technical-workshop-day-2/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Paul Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our close collaborator, Paul Nicholson, was called upon to present our work on cloning wheat blast resistance genes at the BGRI Technical Workshop. The presentation was well received and the video, which was uploaded to Facebook on 15 December, has since been viewed more than 200 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/globalrust/videos/bgri-2020-technical-workshop-identification-of-wheat-blas... |
| Description | Presentation at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Workshop by Sanu Arora |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My Postdoc Sanu Arora was invited to present our work on wheat gene cloning technologies at the BGRI meeting. The presentation was very well received as evidenced by the questions and ensuing Twitter activity. The video of the presentation been viewed more than 500 times on Facebook and ~150 times on Youtube. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDKb5ZeWjU |
| Description | The Sainsbury Laboratory Annual Retreat |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented my yearly update to The Sainsbury Laboratory as part of my Adjunct Affiliation with this institution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Two invited presentations at Next-generation wheat breeders workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Myself and my postdoc, Sanu Arora, were invited to present on our enabling technology for rapid cloning of disease resistance genes by association genetics. This sparked a lot of interest and led to an invitation to present again at the International Wheat Congress, Saskatchewan, Canada, the following week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://2019iwc.ca/pre-conference-workshop/ |
| Description | University of Maryland, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon to speak in the departmental seminar series by a collaborator form University of Maryland, USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | I was called upon by one of my collaborators to present my work at the University of Zurich |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visitors from DEFRA |
| 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 | Visit of DEFRA permanent secretary, Clare Moriarty and her entourage in the Germplasm Resource Unit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Wheat molecular genomics workshop in Cairo, Egypt |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In collaboration with Dr Ahmed Elkot of the Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) in Cairo, Egypt, we organised a workshop for wheat researchers and breeders. Approximately 50 scientists attended including the Minister of Agriculture and the President of the ARC (which employs ~60,000 staff). The event was a great success and covered in the national media in Egypt. The ARC staff were very honoured that the Minister of Agriculture attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/526865257491839/posts/1170288249816200/ |
| Description | Youtube video: "What is AgRenSeq" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ruby O'Grady in the JIC External Communications Team generated an animation to explain the meaning of the acronym "AgRenSeq". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xefrjg5Y_Ug&t=6s |