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Cristobal Uauy

@cristobaluauy.bsky.social
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Geneticist at John Innes Centre

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DIRECTOR’S BLOG - Future harvests depend on the choices we make now After the challenging 2026 harvest, Prof. @cristobaluauy.bsky.social reflects on how this is a reminder that food security starts long before food reaches our plates. 🧵 1/2
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Future harvests depend on the choices we make now | John Innes Centre
Harvest has been challenging again this year. Heatwaves, flooding and drought are now regular headlines in the UK and around the world. 2026 is no anomaly: four of the five worst harvests have...
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
PRESS RELEASE - Innovations in spatial imaging could unlock higher wheat yields Researchers at the John Innes Centre and @earlhaminst.bsky.social are pioneering powerful single-cell visualisation techniques that could unlock higher yields of global wheat 🌾 www.jic.ac.uk/press-releas...
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Nikolai Adamski @nikolaiadamski.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
New #PhD opportunity in the Uauy lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can we increase grain number in wheat by studying genes controlling organ identity? #wheat #spikelet #development biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...
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Identity matters: understanding spike architecture to increase grain number in wheat (UAUY_J26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
Wheat provides 20% of the calories and protein consumed by humans. The world population will reach 9 billion by 2050, which requires food production to more than double. Although plant breeding has…
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🌾 @cristobaluauy.bsky.social, group leader and Director designate, Professor Diane Saunders OBE, group leader, Sarah Sands, trustee, and the chair of our Governing Council Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett were pleased to host a ‘Designing Wheat’ roundtable in Heatherwick Studio, London yesterday.
The ‘Designing Wheat’ roundtable in Heatherwick Studio, LondonProfessor Cristobal Uauy, group leader and Director designate, Professor Diane Saunders OBE, group leaderThe chair of our Governing Council Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett at the ‘Designing Wheat’ roundtable in Heatherwick Studio, London.
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Cristobal Uauy @cristobaluauy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1/10 We are thrilled to share our preprint on spatial transcriptomics in wheat spikes led by the amazing @katielong.bsky.social and Ashleigh Lister. We resolved expression of 200 genes to cellular resolution. Pre-print👉 tinyurl.com/c7t3kncf., @johninnescentre.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social
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