Wild grass could provide new targets for wheat and barley breeding research
Plant scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new, high-yielding, disease-resistant crop varieties
Read the storyPlant scientists have made a breakthrough that could lead to new, high-yielding, disease-resistant crop varieties
Read the storyPhD student Philippa Borrill has won the 2014 early career excellence award from MonoGram
Read the storyScientists have discovered that changing temperatures can have a big effect on resistance to yellow rust, one of the most serious diseases of wheat
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 storyNew research could help explain the dramatic effect on soil health and yield of crop rotation
Read the storyCrop geneticist Dr Cristobal Uauy has been awarded tenure at the John Innes Centre in Norwich after successfully completing a five-year tenure track
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 storyThe use of new genomic techniques and increased sequencing power promise to help breeding crops, but for wheat the pipeline from the laboratory to the field is held up by wheat’s complex genome and the lack of the kind of detailed genome sequence available for simpler plants
Read the storyToo much sun, too much heat and not enough water makes us sick. The same goes for plants. Including ones that feed us and our livestock
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