BGRI Newsletter September 2021

September 2021

BGRI 2021 Virtual Technical Workshop

October 6-8, 2021

Global Resilience: Science, Epidemics, and the Future of the Wheat Community

Next-Gen Wheat Researchers
Surveillance and Forecasting Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
Emerging Breeding Technologies

News & Updates

IWGSC Fall Webinar Series

News: International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium

For its Fall 2021 programming, the IWGSC is holding upcoming webinars from speakers Alison Bently (CIMMYT), Yijing Zhang (Fudan University), Ellie Taagen (2021 Women in Triticum Awardee), and Javier Palma-Guerrero (Rothamsted Research).

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Molecular breeding to enhance wheat in Kenya and Ethiopia

News: John Innes Centre

Researchers from the John Innes Centre and BecA-ILRI Hub have implemented a fast and easy-to-use genotyping technology, Kompetitive Allele Specific PCR (KASP), which has allowed African wheat researchers to drive their own research in Africa.

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Women in Triticum Updates

A Conversation with Sarah McNeil

News: Borlaug Training Foundation

The BTF reached out to Sarah McNeil (WIT 2014) to learn more about Sarah’s background and hear her thoughts on the relevance of in-field training for current and future students.

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2022 WIT awards applications are open!

Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum Awards.

The deadline is October 31, 2021.

WIT Early Career

WIT Mentor

Opportunity

Postdoctoral Fellows in Breeding and Genomics for Crop Improvement and Neodomestication

The lab of Professor Jesse Poland in the Center for Desert Agriculture (CDA) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology has openings for multiple postdoctoral fellowships in the area of applied genomics for crop improvement and neodomestication of new species for saline and extreme environments.

Application deadline is September 15

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Recent Publications

Capturing Multiple Disease Resistance in Wheat through Intergeneric Hybridization

George Fedak, Dawn Chi, Colin Hiebert, Tom Fetch, Brent McCallum, Allen Xue, and Wenguang Cao

Biology

Genome-Wide Association Mapping for Stripe Rust Resistance in Pakistani Spring Wheat Genotypes

Madiha Habib, Faisal Saeed Awan, Bushra Sadia, and Muhammad Anjum Zia

Plants

Variation in several pathogenesis - Related (PR) protein genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum) involved in defense against Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici

Samar M.Esmail, Aziza A.Aboulila, Diaa Abd El-Moneim

Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology

Virulence Spectrum of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici in Northwest Ethiopia

Yehizbalem Azmeraw, Belayneh Admassu, Bekele Abeyo, Netsanet Bacha

Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Snapshots

Credit: Leonardo Crespo

"Toluca experimental station, besides allowing us to select wheat germplasm for various diseases have sometimes beautiful sunrises. Wheat selections at full swing" - @leocrespoh from Twitter

Leonardo Crespo is a scientist at CIMMYT, working on bread wheat improvment.

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