Cereal pathologist at AAFC, tweets are mine, and are not reflective of my working organization. Mother to ❤️❤️❤️, 🏊👩🍳🍉
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Wrapped up our International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights #isclb2026 in Banff! Deeply grateful to our brilliant speakers & attendees, & a huge thanks to our sponsors @SeCan @AlbertaGrains @SaskWheat @WheatInitiative @phytopathca @BS_PP incredible to bring it to Canada!
Lets be clear, the over 20 thousands childern killed in Gaza over the past 3 years, is not just a tragic outcome, it is criminal! and if you can't phantom that by now, then there is something deeply wrong with you! news.un.org/en/story/2026/06…
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in
What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.
Science predicts. Pseudoscience doesn’t.
Twenty-nine years
How to science, and how not to
What’s a failed experiment?
Death by statistics
Ditch the bar graphs
Get credit for all of it
kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-…
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The Palestinians’ problem is that they always have the ‘wrong leaders’ — so goes the decades-old, twisted logic pushed by Israel and repeated by mainstream media. Here is the answer, on @BBCNews, commenting on an eventful week at the UN General Assembly.
Link to full interview with BBC News: youtu.be/DysddSA62pQ?is=kI45…
I respect people who speaks up their mind even when it is at a price, especially when they take the side of the oppressed! I am glad that there is growing support for this too! And it matter. Courage is beautiful
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
Fantastic work by @Gurmnder_Singh leading this work for his PhD dissertation. It was fascinating to discover a neofunctionalized Exo70-like protein exploited by a fungal pathogen to cause disease.
I’m happy to share that our work on the wheat Tsc2 gene is now published in Nature Communications! @FarisGenLab @USDA @NatureComms @NDSU @NDSUPlantPath @NDSUPlantSci
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Check out this infographic, created by Tahiat Rahma, submitted to the 2026 CPS Infographic Contest. It was based on this paper: Molecular Diagnostics of the Wheat Leaf Spot Complex Using the β-Tubulin 1 Gene
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4166…
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In #Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr), responsible for tan spot of wheat, ToxB is a multicopy virulence gene encoding a proteinaceous necrotrophic effector. Ryan Gourlie et al. provide strong evidence supporting the hypothesis that transposons play dual roles in the rapid evolution of fungal pathogenicity by both amplifying and disrupting a key virulence gene in a globally distributed plant pathogen: doi.org/10.1094/MPMI-01-26-0… @McdonaldMeganc @ReemWheat
ALT Fig. 4. Synteny of the ToxB/toxb regions of Chr04 in Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.
Infection on the Yr15 differential in Lethbridge, first sight of it in Canada #striperust incursion @AlbertaGrains @SaskWheat @AAFC_Canada @RDARAlberta @globalrust
The time of the year, when I get to go outside and rate stripe rust infection in our disease nursery #striperust the visual reminder of the great value genetic resistance can bring! @AlbertaGrains @SaskWheat @westerngrains @RDARAlberta @aafc
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
Common bunt symptoms have started showing up in my winter wheat nursery in Lethbridge. Time to get ready to score thousands of lines! 🌾 #Wheat #PlantPathology #PlantBreeding
It is the time of the year we start seeing stripe rust infection on wheat in Alberta, and shout out to the growers in the prairies, if you see it, let me know. We need infected samples on green leaves fresh to trace changes in this pathogen @SaskWheat @AlbertaGrains
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Missed the inaugural Legends of IS-MPMI webinar? Watch it now!
🎬 Prof. Roger Innes — "Leaf surface RNA: How does it get there and what does it do?"
Now available on our YouTube channel 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=UbEBDfwW…
That is my lab work!
Existing diagnostic tools were found to either lack specificity or fail to detect all species in the wheat leaf spot complex. M. Hafez et al. developed a detection tool targeting the single-copy, conserved β-tubulin 1 gene across all species: doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-25-…
ALT Fig. 1. The leaf spot complex of wheat includes a range of diseases: tan spot, Septoria tritici blotch, spot blotch, and Septoria nodorum blotch. Anamorph and teleomorph for disease-causing pathogens are indicated in blue and red text, respectively. Additional information regarding the infective spore stage(s) and the overwintering strategy is given for each pathogen. Parastagonospora nodorum primarily infects lower leaves, causing Septoria nodorum blotch, with secondary infections arising when water-splashed asexual pycnidiospores spread to upper leaves and glumes, leading to Septoria glume blotch. Parastagonospora pseudonodorum mainly infect grain, causing septoria glume blotch, and recently was found to be associated with leaves. The question mark (?) indicates that P. pseudonodorum’s role as a leaf spot pathogen of wheat is still under investigation.
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
Long‐term surveillance reveals hybridization by nuclear reassortment and intercontinental spread as major evolutionary drivers in wheat yellow rust
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
An excellent summary of the recent @WheatInitiative #IWC2026Bologna meeting. Checkout the newsletter.
Our latest Newsetter is out today!
Insights from WI committee meetings, IWC2026 Bologna, Expert Working Group activities, Early Career awards, and a wheat research highlight.
wheatinitiative.org/newslett…
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
🌾 #BacterialLeafStreak is showing up more often across Prairie cereal crops—and they can take a serious toll on yield if conditions are right.
Because these are bacterial diseases, fungicides won’t help—so prevention is key.
Learn what to watch for and how to protect your crop:
👉 barleybin.ca/bacterial-leaf-…
#CdnAg #GrowBarley
Reem Aboukhaddour retweeted
Decades of research said organic farming builds soil better. A study of 3,000 actual farms says: not so fast.
It's not organic vs. conventional — it's about biomass inputs, nitrogen, and tillage. The practices matter, not the label.
My latest...csanr.wsu.edu/what-actually-…
