Bethany is a post-doc in the quantitative genetics group, part of the plant genetics department at NIAB. In her current role, Bethany works in various projects spanning a wide array of crops including wheat, herbage, Gynandropsis gynandra, Aegilops tauschii, Tef and barley. Her focus lies in genome-wide association studies, designing and analysing trials and other statistical analyses to uncover novel insights into crop genetics.
Before her current role, Bethany earned her PhD from the University of Nottingham, with the focus of the work on exploring plant growth regulator signalling in wheat through field experiments at CIMMYT, Mexico funded by the International Wheat Yield Partnership.
Recent publications
Love B, Molero G, Rivera-Amado C, Müller M, Munné-Bosch S, Reynolds MP, Foulkes MJ. Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes (2024). Eur. J. Agron 152:127011
Wright TIC. Horsnell R, Love B, Burridge A, Gardner KA, Jackson R, Leigh FJ, Ligeza A, Heuer S, Bentley AR, Howell P. A new winter wheat genetic resource harbors untapped diversity from synthetic hexaploid wheat. (2024). Theor. Appl. Genet. 137:73
Jackson R, Buntjer JB, Bentley AR, Lage J, Byrne E, Burt C, Jack P, Berry S, Flatman E, Poupard B, Smith S, Hayes C, Barber T, Love B, Gaynor RC, Gorjanc G, Howell P, Mackay IJ, Hickey JM and Ober ES (2023). Phenomic and genomic prediction of yield on multiple locations in winter wheat. Front. Genet. 14:1164935
Love B. Plant hormones associated with increasing grain number and yield potential in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and their genetic regulation (2022). Doctoral thesis
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