Excellence in plant and microbial science
Responding to last week’s National Food Strategy, leading players along the length of the UK’s crop improvement pipeline, from fundamental and applied genetic science to commercial plant breeding, have issued a joint call on the Government to take action to harness the unique contribution of plant genetics in securing a more sustainable food future
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The role of the hormone auxin has been shown to play a key role in the patterning along the apical-basal and medio-lateral axes; how the adaxial-abaxial axis is regulated during radial symmetry establishment at the Arabidopsis gynoecium apex has not been extensively studied until now
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This week is Net Zero Week so we have taken a look at the work we do to help decrease the carbon footprint of agriculture
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This month saw the launch of a new 'Life Sciences Vision' from Government. With the year that we have had, and the incredible role that research has played in combatting COVID-19 through developing diagnostics and vaccines, it’s easy to see why the Government wants to celebrate this area of science
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To grow and multiply efficiently, bacteria must coordinate cell division with chromosome segregation
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In a busy and varied career researching the role of RNA in root development, Susan Duncan has worked with Professor Dame Caroline Dean, Dr Verônica Grieneisen, Professor Anthony Hall and Professor Philip Benfey. We sat down with Susan to discuss her work so far and how she arrived at this point
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Researchers led by Professor Caroline Dean have uncovered the genetic basis for variations in the vernalization response shown by plants growing in very different climates, linking epigenetic mechanisms with evolutionary change
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The SAW Trust has produced an inspiring new initiative; a summer adventure activity book, that will be given out to 5,000 students in years 4 and 5 across Norfolk and Suffolk
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Harriet Gooch has won the Andrew Miller Policy competition for a policy briefing she wrote on the topic of genetically-modified (GM) bacteria
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