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Dr Sarah McKim and collaborators have been awarded £1.165M from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to study a feature of cereal plants what can help improve crops.
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Dr Sarah McKim and collaborators have been awarded £1.165M from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to study a feature of cereal plants what can help improve crops.
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Professor Paul Birch and collaborators at the James Hutton Institute have been awarded ~£679k to study how the potato blight pathogen suppresses the potato immune system.
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Dr Martin Balcerowicz has been awarded ~£540k to study the molecular mechanisms by which plants react to their temperature environment.
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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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Latest research from the Universities of Dundee and Bristol has determined key details on the formation of large-scale functional structures during early embryonic development.
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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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Review of the Year 20212 took place last week with the Dean, Julian Blow sharing the highlights of activity within the School from 2022.
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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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Potato is the third most important food crop in the world and consumed by over a billion people. Pathogens can destroy entire crops and thereby threaten food security.
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An international research team including scientists from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee has reached a milestone on the way to unravelling the species-wide genetic diversity of domesticated barley.
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The mechanism of a protein which transports ammonium across cell membranes has been discovered in research led at the University of Strathclyde, in collaboration with the University of Dundee and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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A University of Dundee researcher has been awarded £1.6 million in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to develop machine learning tools for the life sciences.
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new theory on collective cell migration has been published in Nature Communications this week.
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An interdisciplinary study investigating cell membrane dynamics has been published in Science Advances.
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Senga Robertson-Albertyn received the prestigious RSE Innovators Prize for Public Engagement last week at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Winter Lecture at Wallace High School in Stirling.
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After conducting a field trial at a tomato farm near Ravenna, Italy, a team of plant pathologists and agronomists found that nitrogen fertilizers shape the composition and predicted functions of the plant microbiota.
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Stephen Fry has lavished praise on University of Dundee staff and students who have won awards, named after the University’s former rector, for their success in sharing their work with the public.
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A new study by plant scientists at the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute.
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Scientists have shed further light into the mechanisms through which the potato blight pathogen interacts with plant cells to promote disease.