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Sustainable, resilient, and nutritious food production with N8 AgriFood

This week we spoke with Dr Sally Howlett, a Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the N8 AgriFood Programme. (More on Sally at the end). Sally, what is the N8 AgriFood Programme? When and why was it established? The N8 Research Partnership is…

Isabel07/03/2017

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Chickpea innovation: Revisiting the origins of crops to solve the challenges of modern agriculture

Professor Doug Cook This post was written by Professor Doug Cook (University of California, Davis), the Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Climate Resilient Chickpea. His current research spans both model and crop legume systems from a cellular…

Isabel24/02/2017

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RNA clay offers green alternative to plant pesticides

By Neena Bhandari A nano-sized bio-degradable clay-comprising double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) could offer a cost-effective, clean and green alternative to chemical-based plant pesticides. Australian researchers from the University of Queensland have successfully used a gene-silencing spray, named BioClay, a…

Isabel16/02/2017

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Mother grain genome: insights into quinoa

Sales of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) have exploded in the last decade, with prices more than tripling between 2008 and 2014. The popularity of this pseudocereal comes from its highly nutritious seeds, which resemble grains and contain a good balance of…

Isabel09/02/2017

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The future of phenotyping

This week’s post was written by Dr Kasra Sabermanesh, Rothamsted Research. I am a post-doctoral research scientist within Rothamsted Research’s BBSRC-funded 20:20 Wheat® program, which aims to provide the knowledge base and tools to increase the UK wheat yield potential…

Isabel01/02/2017

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Sustainable, resilient, and nutritious food production with N8 AgriFood

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