Could circadian timing help improve crop protection?
Plants can tell the time, but how might that knowledge help improve crop protection and food security?
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Blog How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate?
How do we feed a growing population in a changing climate? One solution is to develop resilient crop varieties. But how can we achieve this increased resilience in crops? New John Innes Centre Group Leader Dr Sanu Arora is working on just that, so we asked her what her group will be doing?
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News Study finds large-scale expansion of stem rust resistance gene in barley and oat
Scientists have identified a resistance gene, Sr22, as one of the few characterised genes that protects against many stem rust races, one of the most devastating fungal diseases of wheat
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News Novel haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding
Wheat researchers at the John Innes Centre are pioneering a new technique that promises to improve gene discovery for the globally important crop
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Press Release Landmark study generates first genomic atlas for worldwide wheat
Researchers from the John Innes Centre and Earlham Institute have contributed to a major international collaboration that could catalyse a new era of wheat discovery
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Press Release For when the chips are down – preserving UK soil microbial biodiversity for sustainable agriculture
New UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank to safeguard future research and facilitate sustainable production of UK’s six major food crops
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Press Release Cloned stem rust resistance genes offer glimpse of future crop protection
Genes which confer resistance to the deadly fungal disease stem rust have been successfully transferred from wheat into barley
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News Funding to study resistance genes in wild wheat will help combat rust diseases
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture has awarded a $650,000 grant for the study of emmer wheat – one of the very first cereals to be cultivated in agriculture
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25 JunEvent Take It to the Farmer: Reflections on Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat
In its second online event, the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative will present a series of reflections on what it means to deliver genetic gain in wheat to farmers and ways to improve the future impact of wheat research
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