Following the earlier post on the fate of nutrients and micronutrients applied to crops as fertilizers, today’s paper is about micronutrients in grains, showing enhanced grain micronutrients in wheat-Aegilops longissima lines. Dr HS Dhaliwal from Himachal Pradesh, India, and colleagues including Chetan Patokar, now a research student in the Molecular Cytogenetics group here, study advanced introgression…
Month: April 2013
New views on fixed nitrogen and other nutrients in crops and the environment
Two works have been published which substantially update long-standing views about nitrogen and crops. The first, Bender et al. (2013), points out that the whole nutrient balance of maize, and applications of NPK (nitrogen, phosphate and potassium) and micronutrients may well not have kept pace with their removal from fields – because of yield and…
Zubeda Chaudhry: Collaborator from Hazara University, Pakistan and Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Zubeda Chaudhry has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the Molecular Cytogenetics Lab, University of Leicester, for a year ending in April 2013. She has been working on the characterization of WRKY transcription factors in the banana (Musa) genome during her Fellowship here, supported by a highly competitive and prestigious fellowship from the Higher Education Commission…
Molecular cytogenetics, genome evolution and agricultural genomics 