Rocket with school research project lifts off to the International Space Station
The first school experiment to test if plant cuttings build roots in zero gravity has…
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Study reveals diversity ‘blueprint’ to help maize crops adapt to changing climates
Scientists have unlocked evolutionary secrets of landraces through an unprecedented study of allelic diversity, revealing…
Monsanto donates Middleton plant research facility to University
A $10 million commercial biotech plant laboratory in Middleton, Wisconsin, first opened in 1982 with…
Rothamsted Research granted permission by Defra to carry out field trial with GM wheat plants
Rothamsted Research, which receives strategic funding from BBSRC, submitted an application 3 November 2016 to…
International collaboration to source new resistance genes to combat corn diseases
Monsanto Company and 2Blades Foundation (2Blades) have formed a collaboration to discover novel sources of…
Cornell receives UK support to aid scientists fighting threats to global wheat supply
Cornell University will receive $10.5 million in UK aid investment from the British people to…
Wheat virus crosses over, harms native grasses
Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research…
US university addresses gap between research and practice in sustainable agriculture
Michigan State University-led research has found a big difference in the yields produced by alternative…
JIC spin-off Leaf Systems opened by Science Minister Jo Johnson
Leaf Systems International Ltd, a spin out company built on the world-leading UK bioscience research…
Scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory identify novel regulatory mechanism that controls how plants defend themselves against pathogens
Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are…