Tom O'Hara

Postdoctoral research scientist at the John Innes Centre working on safeguarding wheat against wheat blast. 🌾🏳️‍🌈 he/him

[John Innes Centre @JohnInnesCentre]

NEWS - Hope from an unexpected source in the global race to stop wheat blast

New research unexpectedly reveals that wheat varieties with resistance to another pathogen, powdery mildew, also confer protection against wheat blast

https://t.co/9ay7GyIcvz

@NorwichResearch

[Tom O'Hara @Ohara3Tom]

Our research showing that “The powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4 also confers resistance to wheat blast” is available now in Nature Plants! 🌾🌾

https://t.co/xTWeUpwYUG

[Tom O'Hara @Ohara3Tom]

@samwalds ‘Coelenterates’, that’s a new one 😅

[Tom O'Hara @Ohara3Tom]

@samwalds @Ruby_Coates I just listened to the rain and thought about food

Your way sounds much better 😅

[Tom O'Hara @Ohara3Tom]

@PBandham @samwalds I also tried that, they just disappeared off face of the earth 😅

[Ngoni Kangara @ngonika]

1/2. Interested in discovering Avr in #fungi? Check our work with stem rust in @FrontPlantSci. We developed mutant urediniospore libraries and screened for gain-of-virulence against the resistance genes Sr43 and Sr45. @JohnInnesCentre @cerealpath https://t.co/YRw4onkpqE

[Brande Wulff @BrandeWulff]

Wheat blast detected in Zambia!

[Hickey Lab @HickeyLab]

'Speed breeding' scores Lee Hickey a major agrifood award | The Land
“We face the challenge of developing more robust and productive crops to feed our growing population”- ⁦@DrHikov⁩ https://t.co/ttzjuYLKyY

[John Innes Centre @JohnInnesCentre]

#RHSCHELSEA - The brassica plants in this ‘allotment’ style garden were genetically modified. These were the 1st GM crops ever shown at Chelsea. Like the TV, GM tech has come a long way since 1997, we can now use tech like CRISPR/Cas9 to make precision changes to existing genes

[Lee Hickey @DrHikov]

Would you drink #beer made #GMO barley?

These GMO disease resistant barley plants are growing super fast in the #speedbreeding system at @JohnInnesCentre and have BIG potential to dramatically reduce fungicides on farm