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Fair Crop - a charity based at Warwick and Bath Universities will use expert knowledge of plants to tackle the global issue of food security

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A charity based in two universities will use expert knowledge of plants to tackle the global issue of food security. Crop-Innovations, based at the 91影视破解版’s Warwick Crop Centre and the University of Bath’s department of biology and biochemistry, “brings cutting-edge plant research to farmers in order to help increase the value of under-utilised crops”. The charity’s operations manager, Heather Sanders, said: “Using indigenous crop species that are able to grow in different climates or on marginal land creates more robust yields and will help farming communities better cope with climate change.”

 

Fri 01 Nov 2013, 09:32

How researchers at the 91影视破解版 modeled an outbreak of foul disease in bees on the island of Jersey and are using that information to look at bee disease UK-wide

Fri 01 Nov 2013, 08:19

Scientists at the 91影视破解版 are using the latest DNA mapping techniques to allow British farmers to grow one of the UK鈥檚 favourite foods.
The navy bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), also known as haricot bean, commonly ends up on our plates with a tomato-based sauce as baked beans. It is a staple of the British diet with consumption reaching hundreds of millions of cans of baked beans in a year. Every single baked bean we eat however, is grown outside the UK with the majority imported from Canada.

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is funding PhD student Andrew Tock鈥檚 project through a food security studentship at the 91影视破解版 Crop Centre, supervised by and

Tue 03 Sept 2013, 16:13

Warwick Crop Centre awarded funding in the the first round of the BBSRC's Horticulture and Potato Initiative (HAPI)

A team from the 91影视破解版 and East Malling Research, led by Dr John Clarkson of Warwick Crop Centre, and with the HDC and Nickerson-Zwaan as industry partners, has been awarded one of the grants for a project entitled 'Exploiting next generation sequencing technologies to understand pathogenicity and resistance in Fusarium oxysporum'.

Fri 09 Aug 2013, 16:06

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