An insurance crop to be made safe
Scientists are collaborating with researchers in India on projects designed to enhance and safeguard food production overseas and in the UK
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Read the storyScientists collaborating on ash dieback research can reveal the first genetic clues that could help them identify and breed trees tolerant to the disease
Read the storyFour PhD students appointed in India, Kenya and Ethiopia, will contribute to £1.4 million research to combat wheat stripe rust
Read the storyThe first sequence data for a survivor of the ash dieback epidemic has been made available by scientists from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) as part of a research collaboration led by the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory
Read the storyA compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way
Read the storyJohn Innes Centre scientists have led a project to unlock the genetic code of wheat, one of the world’s three most important crops
Read the storyA new centre of excellence for plant and microbial research is planned in China following a joint symposium in Shanghai between researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the John Innes Centre
Read the storyThe genome of Medicago, a close relative of alfalfa and a long-established model for the study of legume biology, has been sequenced by an international team of scientists, capturing around 94% of its genes
Read the storyA novel way of increasing the amounts of antibiotics produced by bacteria has been discovered that could markedly improve the yields of these important compounds in commercial production
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