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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…

Isabel08/09/2016

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Interview with Dr. Winfried Peters: Bringing forgotten ideas on plant biomechanics into the 21st century

This week we spoke to Dr. Winfried S. Peters from Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW). His research mainly focuses on the biomechanics of plant cells, which led him to take a second look at some of the ideas of…

Isabel02/09/2016

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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…

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

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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…

Isabel11/08/2016

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