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International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics 2026 - Association of Applied Biologists Visit Event Website Registration and Abstract Submission Opens in February 2026 We are delighted to bring ISRFG26 to London at the historic Royal Society. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, […]

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Elsie Emmanuel Olatunji is identifying resistance alleles in tomato for breeding
against early blight. #PPATH2025 #ECPP2025

Continuing on our Applied Plant Pathology in Agriculture session at #PPATH2025 with great talks from
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Protecting Authentic Basmati: UK Enforces Rice Authenticity Standards However, some of these basmati varieties have proven substandard, missing the signature popcorn-like aroma that makes basmati so highly prized.In August an investigation by the Food Standards Agency N...

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Potato breeding presentation

I presented at the 20th Joint Meeting of EAPR 'Breeding and Varietal Assessment' and EUCARPIA 'Potatoes' 2025. The conference theme was Potato Breeding in the Era of Pan Genomes and Advanced Genetics.

Potato experiment in a field in Wales

Blight trial 2025

The genetic basis of human height Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00834-1Genetic factors that influence human height encompass rare monogenic variants as well as common and rare polygenic variants. In this Review, Bicknell et al. summarize our current understanding of the genetic underpinnings of human stature and link these genes to common developmental and cellular pathways that affect skeletal growth.

FYI: New online! The genetic basis of human height

Great session teaching flower structure today with plenty of samples from the orchid collection at Bangor University's Treborth Botanic Garden for everyone to dissect

Got to look at the properties of my PGR student's mycosynthesised nanoparticles in the NFI labs today.

Sunday botany afternoon at Coed Cilygroeslwyd: forgot my phone so no photos, but saw loads of snowdrops, stinking hellebore, at least five species of fern, more of fungi and lots of one very happy pleurocarp moss.