Following an initial meeting in Norwich in January 2024 funded by BBSRC, the UK Legume Research Community was formally established, a founding steering committee was established, and terms of reference adopted.
UKLRC Steering Committee
Pete Ianetta
UKLRC Chair
Head of Ecological Food Systems, James Hutton Institute
Rahul Bhosale
Research Fellow in Phenomics and Functional Genomics, Nottingham
Natasha Yelina
Lecturer in Plant Science, University of Leeds
Catherine Howarth
Reader, IBERS
Ravi Vallaru
Senior Lecturer in Crop Science, Lincoln
Donal O’Sullivan
UKLRC Co-chair
Professor of Crop Science, Reading
Myriam Charpentier
Group Leader, John Innes Centre
Phil Howell
Head of Breeding, NIAB Cambridge
David Lloyd
Clover Breeder, Germinal Seeds
Roger Vickers
CEO, PGRO
Jacob Bishop (UKLRC2024 Co-host)
Lecturer in Crop Science, Reading
Caspar Chater (UKLRC 2025 Host)
Senior Research Leader, RBG Kew
J Leake
Professor of Plant-Soil Interactions, Sheffield
Emma Markham
Senior Portfolio Manager, UKRI
Lars Østergaard
(previous UKLRC Chair)
Professor of Botany, University of Oxford