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Rose McNelly @rosemcn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I really enjoyed presenting my poster and sharing my work at #IWC2026Bologna today. If you are at the conference and want to learn about Aegilops tauschii, starch or GWAS pop by my poster (PO493) over the next couple of days 🌾

Rose standing to the left of her poster which has a blue and yellow design

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Great talk by Tzion Fahima on Kinase fusion proteins. We still have so much to find on resistance genes. Will we find kinases that provide resistance to viruses? #IWC2026Bologna

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Amazing talk by Beat Keller on Resistance to pathogens and the importance of considering the whole system, including the pathogens and its avirulence genes . Pathosystems and resistance are much more complex that the classical zigzag model #IWC2026Bologna

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Let’s start #IWC2026Bologna! Looking forward all the great talks. And thanks for the gifts, wheat is really a great organism 😋

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

There are still a couple of days left to apply for a position as an Ecological Statistician in @rececochange.bsky.social!!

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Closing #FSTP5 in Bari, Italy!!! We had excellent time and saw fantastic presentations and posters! We thank the chairs and organisers and are looking forward to come back to Italy for #IWC2026Bologna

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Setting everything up for the meeting of our Expert Working Group on Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding! #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Great talk of Carlotta Award 1st class winner Philippa Borrill @philippa.borrill.bsky.social #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very nice talk from Klaudia Kruppa second class winner of the Carlotta Award!!! #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very interesting talk of Samuela Palombieri (Unitus, DAFNE, Italy) first class winner of the Carlotta Award at #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Congratulations to the Carlotta Award winners! What a nice ceremony at #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Istvan Molnar showed us another great introversion ressources, this time from Aegilops. Together with genomics, cytogenetic is a great tool #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Great presentation: Transfer and characterization of wild relative introgressions into durum wheat by Julie King #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Elisabeth Mazzucotelli illustrated great ressources for studying straits: wild and domesticated core collections, emmer NAM population but also collection of more minor wild relatives. All this linked to genomic ressources. Amazing time to be a geneticist! #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I love the results from archeological genomics! Assaf Distelfeld showed us a great example with emmer, providing really nice insights into the domestication #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I don’t know for you but I hate recorded talks… #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Julie King introversion lines from wild relatives and the tools they made to analyse them is a great ressource! Quite impressive work #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It’s a bit better this morning, but still not fantastic 4 out of 19… yesterday afternoon was 2/11. Let’s raise awareness so we can improve this together! #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Time for the first gender balance counting at #FSTP5: this morning we had 16 amazing speakers: 15 men and one woman… this do not reflect the audience gender balance! We can do better! #womeninSTEM

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Curtis Pozniak perfectly illustrated all we can do with those genomic tools, displaying FHB resistance research #FSTP5

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Following the talks of Marco Maccaferri and Luigi Cattivelli, I can say that the future of durum wheat genetics looks bright with a lot of genomic tools recently or soon available for the community! #FSTP5

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🌾 We're getting everything set up at the From Seed to Pasta conference here in beautiful Bari! 📍 Come visit us at our booth, we can't wait to connect, share ideas, and talk all things pasta, wheat, and innovation. See you soon! #FSTP5 #Bari2025

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Live from #FSTP5! I’m exited to meet the durum wheat community, my new community! If you want to hear about the research that was carried out in SBCMV and WSSMV resistances and my research axes, come and meet at poster 112. I’ll also be giving a short talk on Friday

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Wheat Initiative @wheatinitiative.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

We prepare for From Seed to Pasta V in Bari, how inspiring to look at #FSTP4 in Bologna (2022). Over 300 scientists from 30+ countries joined to support climate challenges, wheat genetics for sustainable pasta. 🌍🍝 #FSTP5 #WheatConnect www.fromseedtopasta.com/fstp-iv-bologna-italy-2022/

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I just saw I wrote "a chromosome scale assembly" 🤦‍♀️ It's not one but 10! Representing 32 haplotypes!

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

By posting for the first time in quite a while, I realized I didn’t inform here of my lab change! I’m now working within the GE2pop group of AGAP institut where I’m leading the research on #WSSMV and #SBCMV resistance in durum wheat. Stay tuned for updates on genetic basis of resistances to viruses!

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Thank you to all coauthors, it was a privilege to collaborate with you. Special thanks to Nils Stein for the opportunity to be part of this incredible work, and for his support throughout, and to Martin and Jia-Wu for the huge work they did on the paper.

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨 Our Nature paper is out! We present a chromosome-scale assembly of a wild barley relative, unlocking insights into virus resistance and genome evolution 🌾🧬 My contribution focused on dissecting the BYDV resistance locus. #PlantScience #Genomics #Barley #BYDV #NaturePaper

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Leibniz IPK @leibnizipk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Wild plants can contribute valuable genes to their domesticated relatives. An international research team led by the @leibnizipk.bsky.social constructed a pangenome of barley’s closest wild relative, Hordeum bulbosum. Results in @nature.com. ➡️PR: tinyurl.com/45ysmkys ➡️Paper: tinyurl.com/msm4sudb

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Stand Up For Science France @standupforscifr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Press release from Stand Up For Science France (cc @standupforscience.bsky.social)

Standing Up For Science in France
In the face of Trump’s administration’s relentless attacks on democratic institutions,
civil rights, science, public health agencies, environmental regulation, and climate
data collection, and as universities and research institutions across Europe also come
under increasing pressure, the French scientific community is taking action. On March 7,
2025, scientists, educators, students, and concerned citizens will march and rally in cities
across France to defend science and the humanities as pillars of democracy.
This mobilization is organized in solidarity with the "Stand Up For Science" movement in the US.

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Corentin Maslard made a very nice presentation on effect oh heat and water stress on maize roots and microbial communities. Huge amount of work with multiomics. Roots exudates are the most affected. Heat stress have a mild effect, combined stresses are more than a sum. #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Fabrice Bauget switch to something more molecular. He showed their work on a model predicting water horizontal flow in the root #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Clément Saint Cast showed a method to 3D scan and model pine tree root system. The digitalized and modeled roots were very promising results #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Charlotte White presented works done in the field and without soil in a lab early growth system. Some traits correlate nicely between the 2 very different systems. Plenty more results to come to confirm and elaborate #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Marcus Griffiths presented his work on the cover crop pennycress, either in field (with root washing and scanning the roots), and in mesocosm. In the field, they saw a large effect of accessions on root length, with QTLs, and a - correlation between root length and density #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Katarzyna Retzer presented RaPID-chamber, an automatisée phenotyping system made with a RaspberryPi, a camera, infrared lights and a box, imaging a plant grown in soil in a petridish. The whole system can be built for less than 200 euros. « Welcome to Rootflix! » #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

We entered the world of signaling today with the great talk by Malcolm Bennett. How do plants sense water? The main and somehow universal signal is ABA, whether the water stress is drought or compaction. It either repress lateral roots or induce barriers formation #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

In Takuya Koyama’s setup, substrate was divided in four and P distributed uniformly or more in a quarter of it. P uptake was more efficient when it was distributed in one patch, with a higher concentration. Roots branch more there without increase in total root length #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Frederik van der Bom shows the results of his 4 years PostDoc in Australia, working on the interaction between root architecture and P uptake. The main thing is that the root should be able to reach the spots where P is available, depending of field management #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Fabio Trevisan talks about citrate uptake in tomato under P and Fe deficiency. It seems to be favorable in -P, not really in -Fe #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Ricardo Giehl showed results obtained in the impressive @leibnizipk.bsky.social Phenosphere. Barley grown in low N with high N patches showed a higher branching in the patches, but total length os not affected. Screening a collection showed a large variability of this N plasticity. #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Stephanie Klein presented a nice study on root angle in maize. Within the NAM population, some lines have steep or shallow roots, others are responsive to N. They identify a new QTL for root angle and did RNAseq, but H2 of responsiveness is too low for mapping #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Doris Vetterlein presents the results obtained by a project where partners studied the same plants and question with their different approaches. Using different scales allows getting a more complete picture #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Tim Brodribb starts the day presenting the link between transpiration, stomata closure, xylem cavitation and water potential. Are roots the weak link? Not really #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Larry York is now presenting @RhizoVision , a free software to analyse root traits #ISRR12 It’s a great soft, but I have no idea what happened to the roots in tundra talk I came to see…

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Nicolas Tyborski showed that changes in microbial communities are higher with landraces and in wet conditions compared to elite varieties and drought #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Maria Hernandez Soriano showed use their work on a collection of wheat. Different accession have different biological nitrogen inhibition, and QTLs are linked to it. Grown in several environment the microbes guilds recruited are different #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Tania Galindo discussed the interaction between root architecture and microbial communities. Microbial communities vary with soil depth and the part of the root system they are in contact with. #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Elisa Taschen showed results on the effect of varieties mixtures on yield under stress. The mixtures have a strong effect under stress, either positive or negative depending of the varieties mixed. The trait explaining it could be linked to root plasticity #ISRR12

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Hélène Pidon @hpidon.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Cagla Eroglu described her experiments on the effect of competition on root exudate. The competitor changes the type of exudates and those exudates change the root architecture of the competitor #ISRR12

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