Dr Tally Wright

Tally is a Research Group Leader from a Cambridgeshire farming background with diverse experience in crop quantitative genetics and physiology. With many years of scientific research experience at Niab, Tally now leads a research group focused on crop quantitative genetics. The group applies statistical genetics methods, including genetic mapping and genomic prediction, to uncover how genetic variation controls complex crop traits.

Tally’s contributions to BBSRC-funded wheat initiatives, including ‘WISP’ and ‘Designing Future Wheat’, have supported the development of large, diverse, and powerful experimental populations that capture genetic diversity from wild relatives and progenitors. Through collaborations with commercial breeders, he works to utilise this ‘diversity-enriched’ wheat to improve modern wheat varieties.

The Crop Quantitative Genetics group is currently delivering research across a range of projects, including developing genetic mapping tools for breeders and academics, creating genomic resources in an orphan leafy vegetable, and identifying ways to accelerate new variety registration with genomic prediction.

Full publication list

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