2022
Scidev.net – جين من عشب بري يضيف للقمح منعة ضد صدأالساق
KAUST Insight – The long and the short of plant breeding
KAUST Discovery – Genetic options ensure rust resistance is toast
JIC Communications – The hardy wild grass that could save our bread
Seed Center and Plant Genetic Resources Bank, Riyadh – Center for Desert Agriculture visits Seed Center
2021
Nature Middle East – Bread wheat’s wild relative could boost crop resilience
JIC Communications – How bread wheat got its gluten: Tracing the impact of a long-lost relative on modern bread wheat
JIC Communications – Molecular breeding to enhance wheat in Kenya and Ethiopia
JIC Communications – Atlas puts wheat resistance genes on the map
JIC Communications – Innovative gene stacks enhance wheat rust resistance
2020
2019
The Times – Gene analysis speeds up race to beat cereal killer
Popular Science – Genetic ‘goggles’ with Kat Eschner
Deutschlandfunk (German Radio) – Disease resistance with Lucian Haas
Australian Broadcasting Corporation – Podcast on cereal disease resistance with Jon Daly
2018
Laboratory News – ‘Fast food’
The Times – Fast food: NASA technology used to speed-breed crops
JIC Communications – Speed Breeding: space-inspired technology driving crop improvement
Heliospectra – Accelerating harvest cycles
CIMMYT – Genes from ancestral relatives of wheat could boost its disease resistance, scientists say
JIC Communications – New genomic tool searches wheat’s wild past to improve crops future
Chemical & Engineering News – Why the end of world’s most popular coffee could be nigh
Newsweek – Feed the world: Scientist have a plan to save chickpeas from destruction
SciDevNet Egypt – Improving plant cultivars will happen in years and not in decades
The Times – British scientists from John Innes Centre for plant research grow wheat in half the time
The Guardian – Weatherwatch: scientists develop ‘speed breeding’ to feed rising population
Newsweek – Growing plants with ‘speed breeding’ could be the key to feed the world’s exploding population
2017
Global Rust Reference Center – Risk of wheat stem rust in Mediterranean Basin in the forthcoming 2017 crop season following outbreaks in Sicily in 2016
2016
Science Daily – New MutChromSeq technique makes valuable genes easier to find
EurekAlert – Scientists advance disease resistance in 3 of world’s most important crops
Research and Development – New gene-detecting technology brings new, resilient superwheat closer
2014
The Scientist – Putting up resistance
PhysOrg – PhD students in India, Ethiopia and Kenya to fight wheat stripe rust
2013
BBC News – Advance in battle against wheat pest
2012
2011
Financial Times – Standing up to stem rust
The Sunday Times – GM wheat ‘a life saver’
The Sunday Times – How to feed the 7 Billion
Public Outreach and Dissemination
February 2020 — Blog on wild wheat, genomics, gene cloning, and food security.
January 2019 — Science Art and Writing lesson plan on cereal disease resistance for school children.
October 2016 — Blog on gene cloning in complex plant genomes for Genome Biology
September 2015 — ‘Young Anglia Grows’, AgriTech Taster Course for Sixth Form Students, 1-day workshop, JIC.
February 2015 — Hosting students from Peterborough Regional College, half day event.
July 2013 — Contributor to Science Media Centre’s briefing notes on GM plants
March 2012 — Science Art and Writing, Fairhaven Primary School, South Walsham
