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Nominations are now being accepted for the prestigious IWGSC-Feuillet Early Career Award. The recipient will speak at the IWGSC workshop that will be held at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG33) in January 2026.

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Michael Alaux is the Deputy Director of URGI (Unit Resources Genomics-Info) at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE). He is the scientific coordinator of the bioinformatics platform services. URGI hosts and manages the official IWGSC Data Repository, providing the wheat community with access to all data generated by IWGSC projects.

A round-up of the IWGSC activities in 2024: Data & Highlights

The IWGSC celebrated its 20 years during the 2025 Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego (CA, USA)

On 11 December 2025, Vijay Tiwari (university of Maryland) will present a webinar entitled "Ancient Grain Genomics to simplify gene discovery and deployment in wheat"

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Presenter: Ping Yang (State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Breeding, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China) | Date live event: 16 October 2025

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Presenter: Agnes Szabo-Hever (North Dakota State University, USA) | Date live event: 17 July 2025

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Presenter: Simon Griffiths (John Innes Centre, UK) | Date live event: 15 May 2025

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Delfi Dorussen has been awarded the IWGSC-Feuillet Early Career Award and will receive her award at the Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAG) in San Diego, California (USA) in January 2025. Delfi also received a travel stipend to travel to the PAG conference to present a talk during the IWGSC main workshop on Saturday 11 January 2025.

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Lucas Reber was awarded an IWGSC Early Career Award and will receive his award at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG) Australia in September 2024. Lucas also received a travel stipend to help defray the cost to travel to the PAG conference and will present his work during the IWGSC workshop on Thursday 19 September 2024.

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Since 2018, the IWGSC and Daicel Arbor Biosciences have had a fruitful partnership that led to the release of several tools for crop breeding and genomics based on the Chinese Spring wheat genome reference sequence generated by the IWGSC (IWGSC RefSeq) – including the myBaits® Expert Wheat Exome and a capture panel for promoters and other regulatory elements. Daicel Arbor Biosciences has been a sponsor of the IWGSC since 2020. We are very grateful for their continuous support and are pleased to count this innovative company as our sponsor.

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Why is it important to have a high quality sequence of bread wheat?

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The first comprehensive book about the most complex plant genome – the Wheat Genome – is now out and available in open access.

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In August 2018, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) published the first fully annotated reference genome of bread wheat in the journal Science. This work will pave the way for the production of wheat varieties better adapted to climate challenges, with higher yields, enhanced nutritional quality and improved sustainability.

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The first reference sequence for the largest wheat chromosome, 3B, was published in Science in July 2014 - in the same special issue were the draft sequence was published. This major achievement established a proof of concept and a template for sequencing the remaining chromosomes.

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The physical map of the wheat largest chromosome, 3B, was published in Science in October 2008, paving the way to sequence the 17–billion–base-pair hexaploid bread wheat genome.

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Reference article on wheat chromosome sorting for BAC library construction.

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