How plants are built to be strong and responsive
Researchers have solved the long-standing mystery of how plants control the arrangement of their cellulose fibres to grow, support themselves and store fixed carbon from the atmosphere
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Helen Mirren voices new plant health animation
Dame Helen Mirren has helped renew efforts to keep plant disease Xylella fastidiosa out of the UK by narrating a new animation that warns of the devastation it causes, including the death of millions of olive trees in Europe
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New Year’s Honours recognition for Professor Anne Osbourn FRS
Professor Anne Osbourn has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to plant science, thanks to her pioneering work in plant natural product biosynthesis
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Innovative wheat genome research awarded five-year European funding
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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First ‘lab in a field’ experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change
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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Research Areas
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Designing Future Wheat
Spanning eight research institutes and universities and aiming to develop new wheat germplasm containing the next generation of key traits
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Genes in the Environment
Developing a wider and deeper understanding of how the environment influences plant growth and development
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Molecules from Nature
Investigating the vast diversity of chemicals produced by plants and microbes
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Plant Health
Understanding the molecular dialogue between plants and microbes, establishing how they communicate with each other and how they have evolved in relation to one another
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News
Vernalization study defines additional phase in universal epigenetic mechanism
In many plants the timing of flowering is controlled by a range of environmental and molecular signals. One of these signals, prolonged cold, aligns flowering with spring in a process known as vernalization
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How to design an excellent scientific poster
Tips for designing an academic poster that conveys your work to your peers at busy poster sessions and encourages collaboration, furthering scientific knowledge exchange
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