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International Year of Soils

This year, 2015, is the International Year of Soils (IYS). To celebrate IYS David Lindbo (@DavidLindbo), former president of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) and an IYS committee leader, explains why soils are vital to sustain every aspect…

Isabel07/10/2015

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The Sound of Science

By Berkley Walker I grew up with a lot of music in my home. My mother is a voice teacher and we had a constant stream of students filling our house with scales, show tunes, and arias. I wish I could…

Isabel30/09/2015

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Genetic Diversity in our Food Systems

Gurdev Khush at IRRI. Photo credit: IRRI photos. Reproduced under a Creative Commons license 2.0. This week’s blog post has been written by agronomist and geneticist Gurdev Khush. Gurdev had a major role to play in the Green Revolution, and…

Isabel24/09/2015

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Providing For Our Brave New World

The Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) published a special issue in June entitled ‘Breeding plants to cope with future climate change’ By Jonathan Ingram The Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) recently published a special issue entitled ‘Breeding plants to cope…

Isabel17/09/2015

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Nanopores: Next, next generation sequencing

Do you have a genome sequencer in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? By Nikolai Adamski On September 4 I attended an event sponsored by Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) at Norwich Research Park, UK, which focused…

Isabel10/09/2015

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