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It may be known as the basis of whisky but scientists at two of Scotland’s leading scientific institutions have been tasked with distilling a new future for barley.
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It may be known as the basis of whisky but scientists at two of Scotland’s leading scientific institutions have been tasked with distilling a new future for barley.
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The latest research from Professor Paul Birch and colleagues has discovered details of how major crop pathogens cause infection.
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Research from the University of Dundee has discovered new details on how plants perceive and then respond to disease causing microbes. This work has been published in the journal Current Biology.
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New work from the University of Dundee reveals a basic feature of how our genomes are organized, and our genes are processed. This work has been published in the journal eLife.
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Ethiopia's National Barley Research Program Coordinator, has started a PhD in Dundee.
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Potatoes have been a staple of Britain’s diet for half a millennium, but new research suggests that limited genetic differences in potato lineages has left British and American spuds vulnerable to the disease that caused the Irish potato famine
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Cereals provide more calories in the human diet than any other source and their grains underpin beer and whisky production across the globe but we have ‘barley’ begun to harvest the secrets of our cereals, says a University of Dundee plant scientist