Innovative surveillance technique gives vital time needed to track a cereal killer
Scientists have created a new mobile surveillance technique to rapidly diagnose one of agriculture’s oldest enemies - wheat rusts
Read the storyScientists have created a new mobile surveillance technique to rapidly diagnose one of agriculture’s oldest enemies - wheat rusts
Read the storyResearch reveals bitter truth of how limonoids, a class of plant natural products whose complex chemistry has been intensively investigated for over 50 years, are made
Read the storyScientists from the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory today joined colleagues from across Europe in calling for an urgent rethink of EU legislation on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
Read the storyWe sat down with Crop Transformation's Mark Smedley to chat about his work on genetic crop transformation and Crispr/Cas genome editing, as well as training the next generation and how he became a scientist
Read the storyScientists at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), along with partners at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and elsewhere warn that we are not fully prepared to tackle the rise in new epidemics of plant diseases
Read the storyImprovements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population. Speed breeding could be one answer
Read the storyGenome Editing and Genetic Modification may sound the same, but they mean slightly different things, which has led to uncertainty, and different interpretations globally, as to how the two should be regulated
Read the storyOilseed rape crops are worth £700m+ to the UK economy each year but are increasingly vulnerable to the devastating Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle. We asked PhD student Lucy Thursfield, who is working on CSFB in collaboration with French company Innolea to explain what the problem is and how we are working towards a solution
Read the storyUK rapeseed growers are losing up to 25% of their crop yield each year because of temperature rises during an early-winter weather window
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