The benefits of understanding plant genes; how they work and what controls them
How does the environment, and in particular temperature, affects plant growth and development, through the regulation of and variation in their genes?
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Blog Legume learners and the nitrogen fix
The Legumes Project aims to help teachers to develop young people’s science skills in an interactive and stimulating way and increase their interest in science through exploring the concept of sustainable agriculture
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Press Release Machine learning identifies mechanisms of flowering in rapid-cycling Brassica crops
Research into the important adaptive and agronomic trait of flowering time has uncovered new evidence on differences between commercial varieties of Brassica rapa and closely related model plants
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News Tracing the start of starch granules in wheat
New factors that control the way starch granules form in wheat have been discovered. The findings could lead long-term to the production of improved cereal crops containing high-quality, healthier starches
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Press Release Shedding light on the long and the short of plant growth
What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related - reach high for the skies?
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Blog Is vertical farming the future of agriculture?
Vertical farming is a relatively recent development, which has the potential to allow us to grow crops in a controlled environment and providing an alternative approach to conventional farming
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News A new genomic tool for wheat rust researchers worldwide
A new genomic tool has been launched to help the global community of wheat rust researchers, enabling simultaneous interrogation of gene expression data for the notorious yellow rust pathogen and its wheat host
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Blog PhD’s in a pandemic; Introducing new PhD Voice co-chair Josh Waites
Josh Waites in the new co-Chair of our PhD community; the PhD Voice. We asked Josh about his own PhD project and how a global pandemic has affected the PhD community more broadly
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Blog The many ingredients of food security; introducing Natasha Grist and Peter Emmrich from the Norwich Institute of Sustainable Development
Earlier this month we launched the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, a cross-Norwich Research Park collaboration focusing on food security and sustainability. We sat down with Dr Peter Emmrich and Dr Natasha Grist to ask them about the new institute and how they got involved
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