Weeding the Gems

In another big edition of the GARNet Research Roundup we cover many different areas of research that utilise a varied group of experimental organisms! The first paper from the Feng lab at the John Innes Centre performs an assessment of the factors influencing heterochromatin activity in sperm companion cells. Second is work from the JIC[…]

Monogram 2019 was my first conference attended as part of my master degree final year internship at NIAB. As it was my first conference, I was very excited to meet the UK cereal research community. Being very new to wheat research and having focused mainly on model plants like ​Arabidopsis thaliana so far, I really[…]

This bumper edition of the GARNet research roundup begins with a set of papers from the John Innes Centre. Anne Osbourn’s group is involved with two papers; firstly they discover how altering metabolic networks in the Arabidopsis root can cause changes in the associated microbiota. Second they characterise the role of a light-induced transcription factor[…]

Emily Marr, NIAB and the University of Cambridge, ecm53@cam.ac.uk After hearing scientists at NIAB (Cambridge) wax lyrical about Monogram year on year, I finally attended the conference this April, in the third year of my PhD. Monogram is an annual meeting for the small-grain cereal and grass research community, bringing together academics, commercial scientists and[…]

10 – 12TH JULY 2019 AT THE JOHN INNES CENTRE The course will run from 09.00 on Wednesday 10th July to 15.00 on Friday 12th July 2019. Accommodation will be provided for participants for 3 nights from 9th July to 11th July inclusive. Meals during the course will be provided but participants will be responsible[…]

University of Nottingham: May 2nd-3rd 2019. As you can read elsewhere on the GARNet blog, the Monogram Network consists of UK based researchers with an active interest in small grain cereals and grasses. Although this encompasses a range of different plant species, over recent years the Monogram annual meeting has focused on world-leading UK research[…]

By Sophie Harrington at the John Innes Centre This year I attended the UK Monogram conference for the third and final time in my PhD. It was a pleasure to have another opportunity to engage with the UK small grains community, both with the academics and the breeding companies that attend. The conference opened with[…]

4th – 6th September, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK From Maria Papanatsiou (University of Glasgow) This conference offers a holistic view on how plants respond to the environment and provides delegates with an opportunity to appreciate the wider context of their research. Marking the 40th anniversary of Plant, Cell & Environment the symposium will be a[…]

THE COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOR WHEAT AND RICE TRANSFORMATION is a resource for UK plant scientists to apply for their genes to be transformed into wheat or rice free of charge, funded by the BBSRC’s Biological and Bioinformatic Resources fund (BBR). THE CURRENT ROUND OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS OPEN UNTIL 24TH JUNE 2019, for transformation[…]

John Christie discusses a recent paper just published in Plant Physiology entitled ‘De-etiolation Enhances Phototropism by Modulating NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 3 Phosphorylation Status‘. http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Christie_190415-16042019-16.30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

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