Healthy Plants – Healthy People – Healthy Planet
Healthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP³) is our vision for achieving a safer, healthier and more sustainable future through the power of plant and microbial science
Read the storyHealthy Plants, Healthy People, Healthy Planet (HP³) is our vision for achieving a safer, healthier and more sustainable future through the power of plant and microbial science
Read the storyA species of parasitic wasp discovered by chance could provide farmers with a chemical-free way of controlling a major pest
Read the storyResearchers have taken positive steps towards using plant virus-based particles for the treatment of human autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis
Read the storyStrict national measures have been implemented to safeguard the UK from a range of plant health threats, in particular the devastating disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa
Read the storySelf-isolation in the face of a marauding pathogen may save lives but it comes at the expense of life-sustaining essentials such as transport, communication and connectivity. New research suggests plants must balance similar trade-offs as they respond to pathogens that could rip through their defence cell by cell
Read the storyYou may not have heard of geosmin but, wherever you may be on this planet, it is highly likely that you’d recognise its smell. New research by scientists in Sweden and the UK has helped to explain why it exists
Read the storyResearchers have discovered that the circadian clocks in plants play a critical role in the consumption of water, allowing plants to use this precious resource more efficiently
Read the storyFor billions of years life on Earth was restricted to aquatic environments, the oceans, seas, rivers and lakes. Then 450 million years ago the first plants colonised land, evolving in the process multiple types of beneficial relationships with microbes in the soil
Read the storyResearchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature’s most enduring mutual relationships, shedding new light on why plants possess genes that appear to be detrimental to their well-being
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