The Hutton is set to lead a £2.7 million project to accelerate climate adaptation in Sphagnum moss – supporting peatland carbon storage, biodiversity and water retention.

In this Root2Resilience podcast episode, we provide an introduction to plant breeding, exploring what it is and how it has evolved over the past centuries, as well as in recent years. We discuss the c...

Rawit, a Thai student, was awarded a scholarship to spend a year studying at Oxford University. Things didn’t go to plan.

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Protein is an important quality parameter for both barley grain and malt. Barley is often rejected when grain protein is too high because of negative impacts on the malting process.  Here Glenn…

Scientific Reports - Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) underlies the orange lemma trait and lignin reduction in barley

Harnessing the genetic diversity of wheat wild relatives is a promising strategy for developing climate-resilient, high-yielding wheat varieties, accelerat

npj Science of Plants - MicroRNA networks integrate development and metabolism to control spikelet fate: implications for cereal yield improvement

Research from The James Hutton Institute and The University of Dundee reveals how barley protects itself

Scientific Reports - Genome wide identification, structural characterization, expression analysis, and regulatory network inferring of BAG gene family in barley

Key message Using genome-wide association analysis in a barley germplasm panel, we identified root trait QTLs, domestication-driven morphological shifts, and candidate genes to guide breeding for impr...

As crop collections become increasingly digital, EURISCO shows why conserving plant diversity means managing not only seeds, but also the data that give them meaning.

Accelerating genetic gains in malting barley requires efficient and accurate evaluation of malt quality traits early in the breeding process. However, traditional micro-malting is limited by its hi...

Global rise in temperature is detrimental to crop plants, especially temperate cereals including barley. Hsfs are the terminal regulator of high temperature response. In this study, we characterized ...

Scientific Reports - Unlocking salt tolerance from Fertile Crescent wild barley: evolutionary and physiological mechanisms in introgressed lines

Abstract. The pre-anthesis inflorescence greening (PAIG) is a distinctive developmental feature in the members of the Triticeae such as barley, wheat and r