A – Z of Plant Science
With plant research stretching from the genetic to the gigantic, we thought it would be worth creating an A-Z of some of the key pieces of work being done here
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News Discovery could pave the way for disease-resistant rice crops
Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be explored to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast disease, a major threat to rice production around the world
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News 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
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News Urgent need for a global surveillance system to detect and halt spread of emergent plant health threats
Scientists 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
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Press Release Plants and the art of microbial maintenance
It’s been known for centuries that plants produce a diverse array of medically-valuable chemicals in their roots
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News New insights into bacterial toxin will help search for antibiotics
A study into a common bacterial toxin found in the human gut has yielded valuable information that could assist in the development of new antibiotics
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Press Release Important class of sugars a clue to toxic algal blooms
Researchers have found an important class of sugars in algae, that could lead to a better understanding of algal blooms
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Blog Balancing species conservation with cereal Rust resilience
Re-planting of Barberry bushes might be the last chance to save the endangered Barberry Carpet Moth (Pareulype berberata), but suggested conservation methods could come at the cost of a UK cereal crop epidemic
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News Fighting back: new study reveals unprecedented details of plant-pathogen co-evolution
The co-evolution of plant - pathogen interactions has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a study of one of the world’s deadliest crop killer
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