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Resistance fighters
in resistance research. It is often remarked that some pests evolve resistance more easily than others – the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), for example (see 'I will survive',below) – but why this is so remains unclear. What can...
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The Silk Route
their offspring. Transgenic plants have also been used in the production of recombinant spidroins. Transgenic tobacco and potato plants have enabled researchers to harvest large quantities of spidroins at low cost. Researchers successfully expressed...
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The biosecurity front line
and industry millions of pounds. Likewise, a single outbreak of ring rot (Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus) on potato in 2003 cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to eradicate, with 165,000 tubers tested and more than 1,500 tonnes of...
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You say tomato: Professor Sandy Knapp FSB
in her search for new species in the genus Solanum, a hugely diverse group of flowering plants that includes tomato, potato, aubergine and pepper plants. She grew up in New Mexico, where a love of the outdoors eventually led to an interest in natural...
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My Lab Unlocked: Professor Nigel Halford FRSB
us in an excellent position to move into research on ways of reducing the acrylamide-forming potential of wheat, rye and potato.Important outcomes of the work on wheat to date include the development of optimal crop management regimes for keeping...
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“The mobilization of our country’s scientists has been impressive”
Kamoun is a group leader at The Sainsbury Laboratory. His group studies how filamentous plant pathogens, such as the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans, infect plants.
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Making Waves
many other aspects of biology. He studied the fungaldisease rust growing on wheat being cultivated in Brazil and collected potatoes that, 20 years later, were used in an attempt to combat the devastating Irish potato famine. This was 50 years before the...
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Higher Education Bioscience Teacher of the Year 2019 shortlist announced
at the University of Dundee. After contributing to a diverse range of projects including malaria, sleeping sickness and potato genomes, David was appointed lecturer and has been teaching full time since 2014. Dr David Martin in his natural habitat...
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The Big Biology Breakthroughs of 2017
Proof of concept has now been established in a diverse range of crops, including grass, maize, wheat, rice, oil-seed rape, potato and tomato using a range of different techniques[8]. Oxford plant scientist Jack Parsons MRSB wrote: "2017 has seen...
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Belfast to ‘eat for survival’ in The Hungry Games
and Home Economist, Susan Anderson, will be cooking up some tasty treats using one of our favourite householdleftovers, potatoes, twice a day (12:00 and 14:00) and will be on hand to provide easy ideas, hints and tips for making the most of your...
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African Natural Plant Products Vol II
Part two examines the chemistry, medicinal properties and validation of traditional medicines; examples include the African potato, African nutmeg, Croton membranaceus (a euphorbia), rooibos (Aspalathus linearis), common ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and...
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Primary Science Teacher of the Year Award winner announced
To help year 3 children grasp this concept, she mashed real food and sent it through a model digestive system, using bowls, potato mashers (teeth), plastic tubes, bags, and sieves. At each stage they watched the relevant part of a human endoscopy video...
