Group Leader awarded major European funding for pioneering RNA-based research
Dr Yiliang Ding and her group have been awarded European funding to take forward their field-leading research into the structure of RNA
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News Secret recipe for limonoids opens doors for bee-friendly crop protection
Innovative research has uncovered the secret of how plants make limonoids, a family of valuable organic chemicals which include bee-friendly insecticides and have potential as anti-cancer drugs
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News Discovery of anti-cancer chemistry makes skullcap fit for modern medicine
The evolutionary secrets that enable the medicinal herb known as barbed skullcap to produce cancer fighting compounds have been unlocked by a collaboration of UK and Chinese researchers
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News Diet and Health innovation boosted by new funding and partnership
A new Innovation Hub for research into biofortification to increase nutrient levels in crops and food is being launched on the Norwich Research Park
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News Cracking the enigma of how plant sperm is compacted
Sperm cells have compact bundles of DNA, yet exactly how and why sperm cell nuclei are condensed in flowering plants has been a mystery, until now
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Press Release The science of how plants register trauma catches a new wave
Longstanding theories of how plants rely on calcium waves to respond systemically to wounding and other stresses have been given fresh perspective
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News Insights into pathogen-host interaction offer a clue to protecting crops from blast
A mechanism used by a fungal pathogen to promote spread of the devastating cereal crop disease, blast, has been revealed in fine detail
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Blog All in a life’s work
Professor Paul Nicholson recently received the British Society for Plant Pathologists’ RKS Wood prize in recognition of his contribution as a researcher and mentor
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Press Release Heated plot experiments reveal link between warmer early winters and lower crop yields
Innovative experiments using temperature-controlled field plots have helped to explain the link between early winter temperatures and yield in some of our most marketable arable crops
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