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Katherine Steele

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Crops, plants, food, genetics, breeding, learning

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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
148 members and counting! If you're a rice researcher anywhere in the world and you haven't joined yet, do sign up so you won't miss notifications about webinars and more.
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌾🌾 ISRFG 2026 🌾🌾 A few highlights from a phenomenal week at The Royal Society for the International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026 🌾 @oryzanet.bsky.social @royalsociety.org #plantscience #isrfg2026
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James Gibbons @carregfawr.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#wildflowerhour after 4 years of looking managed to find a fly orchid in the Anglesey Fens, tiny, inconspicuous and very lovely.
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🌾Register now for the International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026 🌾 👉️ cvent.me/8VvnrA 📍 Royal Society, London; September 8-11th Share your science with a global community 🌾 📅 Abstract deadline for talks: 15th May 🌍️💸 LMIC travel grants now available! 💸🌍️ #ISRFG2026 #plantscience
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Opportunity to do a postdoc in Bangor
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OryzaNet @oryzanet.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🌾 Welcome to OryzaNet Our website is now live, connecting people, expertise, and collaboration across global rice research. 🔗 www.oryzanet.com Explore the network, get involved, and stay up to date.
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OryzaNet | Home
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happening in London this September: International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026 - Association of Applied Biologists share.google/Rtjm31tUmsyZ...
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International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026 - Association of Applied Biologists
Visit Event Website Registration and Abstract Submission Opens in February 2026 We are delighted to bring ISRFG26 to London at the historic Royal Society. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, […]
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OryzaNet @oryzanet.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Register your interest in OryzaNet OryzaNet is a new BBSRC-funded rice research network launching Spring 2026. We’re inviting researchers, social scientists, stakeholders & innovators to register interest ahead of launch. www.oryzanet.com #RiceResearch #ResearchNetwork #OryzaNet #BBSRC
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OryzaNet | Coming soon
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British Society of Plant Pathology @bspp.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Elsie Emmanuel Olatunji is identifying resistance alleles in tomato for breeding against early blight. #PPATH2025 #ECPP2025
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Association of Applied Biologists @aabiologists.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Continuing on our Applied Plant Pathology in Agriculture session at #PPATH2025 with great talks from 🍁John Bonkowski - Purdue University 🍒 @mojganrabiey.bsky.social @warwickuni.bsky.social 🥔 @kasteele.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social 🥕 Don Pendergrast @agriiuk.bsky.social
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Protecting Authentic Basmati: UK Enforces Rice Authenticity Standards
However, some of these basmati varieties have proven substandard, missing the signature popcorn-like aroma that makes basmati so highly prized.In August an investigation by the Food Standards Agency N...
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I presented at the 20th Joint Meeting of EAPR 'Breeding and Varietal Assessment' and EUCARPIA 'Potatoes' 2025. The conference theme was Potato Breeding in the Era of Pan Genomes and Advanced Genetics.
Potato breeding presentation
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Blight trial 2025
Potato experiment in a field in Wales
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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 28/04/2025
FYI: New online! The genetic basis of human height
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The genetic basis of human height
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00834-1Genetic factors that influence human height encompass rare monogenic variants as well as common and rare polygenic variants. In this Review, Bicknell et al. summarize our current understanding of the genetic underpinnings of human stature and link these genes to common developmental and cellular pathways that affect skeletal growth.
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Great session teaching flower structure today with plenty of samples from the orchid collection at Bangor University's Treborth Botanic Garden for everyone to dissect
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Got to look at the properties of my PGR student's mycosynthesised nanoparticles in the NFI labs today.
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Katherine Steele @kasteele.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Sunday botany afternoon at Coed Cilygroeslwyd: forgot my phone so no photos, but saw loads of snowdrops, stinking hellebore, at least five species of fern, more of fungi and lots of one very happy pleurocarp moss.
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