Excellence in plant and microbial science
An ambitious research project to improve global wheat production has been awarded a major slice of European funding to use tools such as gene editing to engineer useful genetic variation in wheat’s huge and notoriously complex genome
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Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate change for farmers
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Genotyping is looking at specific, differences within a population of plants, and within specific areas of their genome, so that you can then use those selected areas of a plant’s genome in plant breeding
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A new study using the model species Streptomyces venezuelae has shown that c-di-GMP intervenes later in development to control the differentiation of the reproductive hyphae into spores
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Researchers have identified the critical last pieces of a genetic defence system that gives oats resistance to soil pathogens
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A free exhibition running from 3-9 December, showcasing the winning art and poetry entries that were inspired by the science that is carried out across the Norwich Research Park
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Wheat that has been biofortified to produce white flour with increased iron has progressed successfully through the first season of field trials
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The story of the first Research Institute Technician Symposium, which took place at the Francis Crick Institute in London on Monday 18 November 2019
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The secret recipe nature uses to make the diverse leaf shapes we see everywhere around us has been revealed in research
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