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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…

Isabel27/08/2016

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Plantwise – promoting and supporting plant health for the Sustainable Development Goals

Andrea Powell, CABI Promoting and supporting plant health will be an important part of how we achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Andrea Powell, Chief Information Officer of the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) looks at…

Isabel17/08/2016

Blog Interviews

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…

Isabel11/08/2016

Blog Future Directions GPC Community Interviews Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society

Professor Stefan Jansson on what makes a GMO, and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society

This week we speak to Professor Stefan Jansson, Umeå University, Sweden, who is the President of one of the Global Plant Council member organizations, the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society (SPPS). He tells us more about his fascinating work, his prominent…

Isabel01/08/2016

Blog Scientific Meetings

Interview with Laura Lagomarsino, winner of the Ernst Mayr award at Evolution 2016

This week's post is reproduced with permission from the New Phytologist blog. Written by Mike Whitfield. During Evolution 2016, I spoke to Laura Lagomarsino, New Phytologist author and one of the winners of the Ernst Mayr Award. Awarded each year by the Society of Systematic…

Isabel28/07/2016

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Feeding the world with virtual crops

Plantwise – promoting and supporting plant health for the Sustainable Development Goals

Uncovering the secrets of ancient barley

Professor Stefan Jansson on what makes a GMO, and the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society

Interview with Laura Lagomarsino, winner of the Ernst Mayr award at Evolution 2016

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