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The State of the World’s Plants 2017 by Bursary Winner Harison Andriambelo

This week’s post was written by Harison Andriambelo, a PhD student at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Harison was the awardee of the Early Career Researcher travel bursary from the Society for Experimental Biology in association with the Global Plant…

Isabel05/06/2017

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The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility

This post is republished with the kind permission of the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility (APPF). We at the APPF love visits from our global plant science community, so it was a treat to host Ruth Bastow, Executive Director of the…

Isabel29/05/2017

Blog Research

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant…

This week’s post was written by Caroline Wood, a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield. When it comes to crop diseases, insects, viruses, and fungi may get the media limelight but in certain regions it is actually other plants…

Isabel22/05/2017

Blog Global Change

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle

By Esther Ngumbi For Africa to end chronic hunger, governments must invest in sustainable water supplies. The fields are bare under the scorching sun and temperatures rise with every passing week. Any crops the extreme temperatures haven’t destroyed, the insect pests have,…

Isabel15/05/2017

Blog GPC Community

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century

This week we spoke to Francisco Gomez and Ammani Kyanam, graduate students in the Soil and Crop Science Department at Texas A&M University, USA. They were part of the organizing committee for the recent Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium, a…

Isabel08/05/2017

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The State of the World’s Plants 2017 by Bursary Winner Harison Andriambelo

The Global Plant Council visits the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility

Striga hermonthica – a beautiful but devastating plant…

Water is key to ending Africa’s chronic hunger cycle

Student-driven plant breeding symposium addresses global challenges in the 21st century

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