July 26, 2017
GM plants promise fish oils aplenty - A new study highlights the complexity of plant lipid metabolism, the challenges of manipulating biosynthetic pathways and the rewards of being able to predict outcomes
June 9, 2017
“Exciting biology” rewrites text books in uncovering plants' high-fat diet for fungal benefactors - Nature’s most widespread and longest-lasting symbiotic relationship shows green promise for agriculture and biotechnology
January 16, 2017
Scientists uncover hidden wheat treasures - New resource will greatly accelerate scientific discovery and the rate of wheat improvement
December 14, 2016
The end of food insecurity? Scientists increase crop yield by 20% using chemical technology (Farming UK)
December 5, 2016
United Kingdom - Innovative new network provides easy access to information about pest, weed and disease management for farmers and agronomists
August 10, 2016
The best defence: developing aphid-resistant wheat for smallholder farmers in southern Africa - A partnership between wheat scientists at Rothamsted Research and Seed Co Ltd, Africa’s largest seed company, is attempting to breed wheat resistant to two aphid species
Major pathogen of barley decoded: new avenues for control - The fungus that causes Ramularia leaf spot in barley is the latest organism to have its genome sequenced and investigated
July 13, 2016
Inside knowledge - how do bacteria living within wheat plants affect their hosts? - Scientists at Rothamsted Research develop technique to study the effects of beneficial bacteria that live inside wheat plants
June 2, 2016
On the surface: genes identified that give wheat and barley their matte appearance - Researchers find cluster of genes responsible for the matte, bluish-grey colour of cultivated wheat and barley
May 19, 2016
What makes the varroa parasite of honey bees resistant to chemical treatment? Mutations discovered that enable parasitic varroa mites from south-east USA to survive previously effective treatment with the pyrethroid tau-fluvalinate
March 7, 2016
New agri-genomics tools, developed at Rothamsted Research, to be made available on Genestack platform
February 17, 2016
Scientists report breakthrough in the quest for obese plants (The Conversation)
Indo-UK Centre for the improvement of Nitrogen use Efficiency in Wheat (INEW) - A new virtual joint centre brings together major UK and Indian researchers with programmes on wheat improvement to determine the genetic control of nitrogen use efficiency in wheat
January 28, 2016
Enzymes with the potential to increase wheat yields
January 26, 2016
Unravelling chloroplast inheritance in wheat
January 21, 2016
Fatty acids from GM oilseed crops could replace fish oil
December 3, 2015
United Kingdom - New smartphone app to help farmers protect crops
October 28, 2015
Agrimetrics - The first Centre for Agricultural Innovation opens
October 26, 2015
Agrimetrics: the first Centre for Agricultural Innovation is open for business
October 25, 2015
The world’s first Field Scanalyzer is up and running at Rothamsted Research
October 5, 2015
A farmer and his drone?
September 29, 2015
Octocopter! Experimental drone for agricultural research at Rothamstedt Research - Demonstrator technology takes to the skies to collect data for field trials
September 25, 2015
Alterar genéticamente las cantidades de azúcar natural mejora el rendimiento de maíz (FoodNewsLatam.com)
August 11, 2015
Deep field phenotyping becomes reality at Rothamsted Research
July 30, 2015
Nature Biotechnology publishes research from Syngenta and Rothamsted Research - Targeted increase of a naturally occurring sugar improves the yield of drought affected corn
July 13, 2015
World's first Field Scanalyzer at Rothamsted Research
July 8, 2015
The first GM oilseed crop to produce omega-3 fish oils in the field
March 25, 2015
Researching our daily bread - U.K. researchers are working to increase our global wheat yield and nutrition (Grainews)
February 5, 2015
Scientists find potential way of controlling Septoria leaf blotch in wheat
January 28, 2015
Septoria pathogen “hijacks” wheat crop defences - Scientists identify the mechanisms by which the fungal pathogen of wheat causing Septoria Tritici Blotch manipulates plant immune responses to its own advantage
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