Scientists produce beneficial natural compounds in tomato – with potential for industrial scale up
Given the opportunity to drink 50 bottles of wine or eat one tomato, which would you choose?
Read the storyGiven the opportunity to drink 50 bottles of wine or eat one tomato, which would you choose?
Read the storyFor over 10,000 years, farmers have selected crops they wanted to breed on their characteristics
Read the storyScientists in Professor Claire Domoney’s lab have identified a gene involved in a fundamental process underlying plant growth, and they hope that knowledge of this gene will inform the breeding of healthier, higher yielding crops, including pea
Read the storyA team of scientists led by Dr Pierre-Marc Delaux of the John Innes Centre has solved a long-running mystery about the first stages of plant life on earth
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 storyThe Royal Statistical Society has released an online version of its training programmes for science and statistics training for journalists
Read the storyIn the mid-20th century, an American scientist named Harold Henry Flor helped explain how certain varieties of plants can fight off some plant killers (pathogens), but not others, with a model called the “gene-for-gene” hypothesis
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre have discovered that Euglena gracilis, the single cell algae which inhabits most garden ponds, has a whole host of new, unclassified genes which can make new forms of carbohydrates and natural products
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre have developed peas that will help animals absorb more protein from their diet
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