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Battening down the hatches: priming plant defense

This week’s blog post was written by Dr. Mike Roberts (Lancaster University, UK). Dr. Mike Roberts, Lancaster University, UK, Mike with an experiment to test the effects of parental herbivory on defense priming in the next generation of Arabidopsis plants.…

Isabel12/12/2016

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Does Australia hold the key to food security?

This article is reposted from the Devex blog with kind permission from the author, Lisa Cornish. Plant samples in the genebank at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture's Genetic Resources Unit, at the institution’s headquarters in Colombia. Credit: Neil Palmer /…

Isabel05/12/2016

Blog Future Directions GPC Community

Temperate matters in agriculture

Most of the world’s food is produced in temperate zones. The Global Food Security program’s Evangelia Kougioumoutzi reports on the TempAg network. Agricultural production in temperate regions is highly productive with a significant proportion of global output originating from temperate…

Isabel28/11/2016

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How growing plants improves human well-being: People Plant Council

Credit: Tejvan Pettinger. Used under license: CC BY 2.0. As popular British botanist (and GPC blog guest) James Wong wrote in the UK’s Guardian newspaper earlier this year: “gardening is good for you”. Ask most people how they can benefit from…

Isabel22/11/2016

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Flipping the symposium

Answers to the question: "Which crop species are most critical with regard to stress resilience?" Lisa Martin, GPC Outreach & Communications Manager GPC Executive Director Ruth Bastow and I recently travelled to Australia to hold the GPC’s annual general meeting…

Isabel16/11/2016

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