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Taking the brakes off plant production: not so good after all

Reposted with kind permission from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Original article. By: Igor Houwat, Atsuko Kanazawa, David Kramer The need for speed: increasing plant yield is one way to increase food and fuel resources. But asking plants to simply do…

Isabel11/10/2017

Blog Future Directions

Potatoes, allies on Earth and on Mars

By Zoraida Portillo (Perú) A joint initiative between NASA and the International Potato Centre (CIP), which is based in Peru, offers scientific evidence that it is possible to grow at least four types of potatoes on Mars. A scenario starring…

Isabel06/10/2017

Blog Future Directions Interviews

The Regulator’s perspective: Why some gene-edited plants are not GM-regulated in Sweden

Dr. Staffan Eklöf, Swedish Board of Agriculture At July’s New Breeding Technologies workshop held in Gothenburg, Sweden, Dr. Staffan Eklöf, Swedish Board of Agriculture, gave us an insight into their analysis of European Union (EU) regulations, which led to their…

Isabel04/09/2017

Blog Global Change

Climate change to push Ethiopian coffee farming uphill

This article was republished from SciDev.Net. By Baraka Rateng’ Relocating coffee areas, along with forestation and forest conservation, to higher altitudes to cope with climate change could increase Ethiopia‘s coffee farming area fourfold, a study predicts. The study, published in…

Isabel16/08/2017

Blog Research

Fighting Fusarium wilt to beat the bananapocalypse

Dr. Sarah Schmidt (@BananarootsBlog), Researcher and Science Communicator at The Sainsbury Laboratory Science. Sarah got hooked on both banana research and science writing when she joined a banana Fusarium wilt field trip in Indonesia as a Fusarium expert. She began…

Isabel07/08/2017

Blog Scientific Meetings

Chinese plant science and Journal of Experimental Botany

This week’s post was written by Jonathan Ingram, Senior Commissioning Editor / Science Writer for the Journal of Experimental Botany. Jonathan moved from lab research into publishing and communications with the launch of Trends in Plant Science in 1995, then…

Isabel31/07/2017

Blog Future Directions Research

A taste of CRISPR

This week’s blog was written by Dr Craig Cormick, the Creative Director of ThinkOutsideThe. He is one of Australia’s leading science communicators, with over 30 years’ experience working with agencies such as CSIRO, Questacon and Federal Government Departments. So what…

Isabel26/07/2017

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