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Overcoming resistance

Crop Science Centre

Launch of the Crop Science Centre – the start of a special journey

The new Crop Science Centre brings together excellence in discovery science from the Dept of Plant Sciences with NIAB’s unparalleled expertise in applied crop research. At the launch, director Professor Giles Oldroyd said: “We are excited to be opening this new Centre, which can drive the transformative change we so desperately need.”

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05/10/2020
Guided Biotics to protect plants from bacterial diseases

FOLIUM Science extends Guided Biotics®technology to plants

FOLIUM Science’s Guided Biotics enables highly selective control of unwanted bacteria – even those resistant to antimicrobials – while protecting closely related beneficial species of bacteria. The collaboration with John Innes Centre sees it apply its technology to economically important crop diseases such as Xanthomonas and Xylella

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31/07/2020
soya bean rust

Complete genome of devastating soybean pathogen assembled

Asian soybean rust has a devastating impact on soybean, an internationally important crop with 346 million tonnes produced globally. Now its complex genome has been assembled providing an opportunity for new types of control.

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21/11/2019
Ed Moorhouse

Using natural products in conventional farming

Would working with nature relieve some of the evolutionary pressure on arable weeds and plant pests and stop them from becoming so aggressive? 

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03/01/2019
What is gene editing? Scientific community raises concerns over EU classification

What is gene editing? Scientific community raises concerns over EU classification

An unexpected ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has classified a promising gene editing technique as genetic modification and it

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14/09/2018

Gene-detecting technology brings super wheat closer

A new technology called ‘MutRenSeq’ accurately pinpoints the location of disease resistance genes in large plant genomes, it has reduced the time it takes to clone

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25/04/2016

Plants protect themselves with self-destructing cells

Some plants can protect themselves from attack by disease by setting molecular traps. Once the disease has been detected it is lured by a ‘bait’ and then

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12/02/2016

JIC announces it has found new target for herbicides

An enzyme called DNA gyrase has been found to play an essential role in the formation of chloroplasts in plants. Chloroplasts play a vital role in

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12/02/2016

160-year-old samples provide resistance insights

Samples taken 160 years ago  are offering new insights into the modern problem of fungicide resistance. Just as antibiotic resistance by disease-causing bacteria poses a huge

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15/07/2014

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