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A new virtual Joint Centre brings together major UK and Indian researchers with programmes on wheat improvement to determine the genetic control of nitrogen use efficiency in wheat
Read the storyA more complete and accurate wheat genome assembly is now available to researchers
Read the storyScientists investigating how to control take-all, a fungus that lives in soil and infects wheat roots to cause disease, have discovered that different varieties of wheat have distinct and lasting impacts on the health of the soil in which they are grown
Read the storyA team of scientists have successfully transferred a receptor that recognises bacteria from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana - a dicot, to wheat – a monocot
Read the storyPlant scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new, high-yielding, disease-resistant crop varieties
Read the storyPhD student Philippa Borrill has won the 2014 early career excellence award from MonoGram
Read the storyScientists have discovered that changing temperatures can have a big effect on resistance to yellow rust, one of the most serious diseases of wheat
Read the storyFour PhD students appointed in India, Kenya and Ethiopia, will contribute to £1.4 million research to combat wheat stripe rust
Read the storyNew research could help explain the dramatic effect on soil health and yield of crop rotation
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