Wheat_ResearchCentre

Nottingham BBSRC Wheat Research Centre aims to transfer genetic variation from wild related species into wheat and distribute the germplasm generated world wide

[Wheat_ResearchCentre @Notts_WRC]

Very happy to announce that we have been awarded a £1.6M industrial partnership award by @BBSRC in collaboration with @KWSUKLtd for the development of an efficient hybrid wheat system led by Julie King
@UoNresearch @UoNPressOffice @PlantSciNottm @UoNBiosciences @SurbhiG6 @sbzipk

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded the Strampelli Award 2026 at the International Wheat Congress for significant contribution to wheat research as a mid-career scientist. #IWC2026Bologna

@UoNPressOffice
@UoNBiosciences
@UoNresearch

[Wheat Initiative @WheatInitiative]

#IWC2026Bologna
Meet some of the winners of our travel grant and registration waiver!

[Wheat Initiative @WheatInitiative]

Starting day 2 of #IWC2026Bologna with some great presentations! Anna Maria Mastrangelo chair of our Durum Expert Working Group chairing 🌾
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[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Thank you to @MonogramUK community for another great meeting. To @AABiologists and @niabscience @KanyukaKostya for hosting #Monogram26. Congratulations to travel award winners including @manel_othmeni from @UoNBiosciences Looking for to #Monogram2027 in Nottingham! @Notts_WRC

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Oliver Powell from @JohnInnesCentre and Charlotte Grech from @GuilleMendiondo lab won the #ECR bingo at #Monogram26. Thanks to @NikkiW_Hortic the @MonogramUK committee’s ECR rep for a fantastic ECR day and activities.

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Excellent talk by Bernice Waweru from @JohnInnesCentre @CristobalUauy lab on using kmer sequencing and IBSpy to identify novel candidate genes for yellow rust resistance in wheat #Monogram26

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Excellent and fascinating talk by @NikkiW_Hortic from @UoNBiosciences @murchielab on investigating N fixing bacterial inoculants for wheat yield improvement in Sub Saharan Africa. Funded by @gatesfoundation @LegumeTech @FCDOGovUK #Monogram26

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Great talk by my PhD student @KatieHawkins42 from @UoNBiosciences @Notts_WRC on exploiting wheat wild relatives for BYDV resistance. Funded by @nottm_bbsrc_dtp @ragtseedsuk @KWSUKLtd @Limagrain in collaboration with and co supervised by @KanyukaKostya @niabscience #Monogram26

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Excited to share WheatCoordDB, a free tool for the wheat genomics community 🌾
Got a QTL interval, marker position, or introgression breakpoint in CS RefSeq v2.1? Convert it to 24 wheat assemblies instantly, right in your browser.
🔗 https://t.co/GOcAtgYQqH

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

🚨New paper out now in @TheorApplGenet! We report the transfer of 98% of the wild relative Aegilops mutica genome into bread wheat as introgressions. This expands genetic diversity for wheat breeding and reveals patterns of homoeologous recombination. 🌾
https://t.co/acMHECnlta

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

🚨New in today! Narrowing in on the Fusarium Head Blight type II resistance gene transferred from wild relative Triticum timopheevii into bread wheat with significant reduction in DON accumulation. 🌾
@Notts_WRC @JohnInnesCentre @UoNBiosciences
https://t.co/WLvCiGdOMg

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Published our low cost high throughput DNA extraction method in @PlantMethods last month. It’s what we use for our KASP genotyping. Highly recommend. https://t.co/AwxbgARhVW
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[Wheat_ResearchCentre @Notts_WRC]

The Nottingham Wheat Research Centre wishes you all a happy new year 2026!

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Promoting genebank resources at #FSTP5 is Noam Chayut from @JohnInnesCentre talking about the hexaploid and tetraploid wheat collections at the Germplasm Resource Unit

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

The Carlotta Award 2025 goes to @PhilippaBorrill from the @JohnInnesCentre who talks about methylation mutants in bread wheat 👏#FSTP5 #WomenInWheat

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Klaudia Kruppa from Martonvasar Hungary @MGIHUNREN gets 2nd prize for The Carlotta Award 🥈 #FSTP5 for her work on introgressing Thinopyrum into wheat for leaf rust resistance and drought tolerance

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Great talk by Filippo Bassi @fillobax durum wheat breeder @ICARDA on genomic breeding for dryland durum. Look out for the ‘new drought’. #FSTP5

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Great talk by @Val_Klymiuk from @SaskWheat on pre-breeding for disease resistance in Canadian bread and durum wheat using wild relatives of wheat at #FSTP5 Very impressive work and good luck for your new role as Applied Genomics and Pre-breeding Chair @usask

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Durum wheat breeder Karim Ammar from @CIMMYT gave an insightful talk on strategies to accelerate genetic gains and improve durum wheat resilience to climate change especially for drought tolerance and stem rust resistance #FSTP5

[Surbhi Grewal @SurbhiG6]

Special mention for The Carlotta Award #FSTP5 goes to @veronicaguwela from @cimmyt on her PhD work on introgressing wild relative segments into Malawian wheat to increase grain nutrient content @Notts_WRC funded by @UoNBiosciences Future Food Beacon