For traits and pre-breeding, the phenotyping facilities of Rothamsted Research and University of Nottingham’s Hounsfield facility combine with genetic resources of John Innes Centre, alongside specialist trait knowledge at the universities of Lancaster and Leeds.

Nutritional biochemistry expertise at Rothamsted Research combine with in-vitro gut systems at Quadram Institute  and clinical intervention at Imperial College to build an evidence base for increasing dietary fibre and minerals in white wheat flour.

Pathology hubs at Rothamsted Research, National Institute of Agricultural Botany, John Innes Centre and Earlham Institute make step change discoveries in plant immunity and pathogen weakness.

Earlham Institute data leadership and the Grassroots data repository, with pioneering genotyping methods at the University of Bristol, are the foundation of all Delivering Sustainable Wheat experimentation and analysis, as is their generation of new reference genomes for core Delivering Sustainable Wheat germplasm.

This creates a FAIR data landscape maximising returns for Delivering Sustainable Wheat and beyond.

To address the challenges facing global wheat production, our research is divided into four themes or work packages. Each is led by two researchers at our institutes, with contributions from across the DSW research team.