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In Nature Plants: Come together

This post is republished with permission from Nature Plants. Science is not a solo endeavour but a social one, and the most social part is conference attendance. Regardless of their other strengths and weaknesses, scientific meetings are critical for encouraging…
Isabel
08/09/2016
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Feeding the world with virtual crops

This week's blog comes from Rachel Shekar, the project manager for the "Crops in silico" project. Researchers watch a field of soybean emerge, grow, and abruptly die in the span of one minute — on their computer screens. These virtual crops will…
Isabel
27/08/2016
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Uncovering the secrets of ancient barley

This week we speak to Dr Nils Stein, Group Leader of the Genomics of Genetic Resources group at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK). We discuss his recent work on the genomes of 6000-year-old cultivated…
Isabel
11/08/2016