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Allowing pseudoscience into EU risk assessment processes is eroding public trust in science experts and in science as a whole- The bigger picture

Posted on Thursday, 28 July, 2016 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

329. Dietrich DR, Dekant W, Greim H, Heslop-Harrison P, Berry C, Boobis A, Hengstler JG, Sharpe R. 2016. Editorial: Allowing pseudoscience into EU risk assessment processes is eroding public trust in science experts and in science as a whole: The bigger picture. Chemico-Biological … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Tagged agriculture, agrochemicals, breeding, chemicals, legislation, pseudoscience, reports, risk, science | Leave a comment

Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security

Posted on Wednesday, 11 March, 2015 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

313. Noorka IR, Heslop-Harrison JS 2014. Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security. In: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, Ed Leal Filho W. 1-8. Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9_74-1 Link to NoorkaHeslopHarrisonBreedingClimateChangeAuthorVersion with colour figures. … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Farming, Publications, Sustainability | Tagged Adaptation, agriculture, agronomy, aliens, breeding, Climate Change, crops, food, invasion, irrigation, Middle East, salinity, Southeast Asia, stress, terraces, water, Water Security, wheat | Leave a comment

Plant Virus Evolution and Pararetroviruses in Petunia

Posted on Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

TS. Hohn T, Richert-Pöggeler KR, Staginnus C, Harper G, Schwarzacher T, Teo CH, Teycheney P-Y, Iskra-Caruana M-L, Hull R. 2008. Evolution of Integrated Plant Viruses. Chapter 4 pp 53-81. In: Plant Virus Evolution Ed Roossinck MJ. Springer: Berlin Link to Publisher … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Tagged agriculture, banana, crops, disease, genomes, genomics, integration, musa, pararetroviruses, petunia, plants, prv, retroviruses, transcription, virus | Leave a comment

Descriptors for Crocus (Crocus spp.)

Posted on Monday, 26 January, 2015 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

312. Molina RV, Guardiola JL, García-Luis D, Renau-Morata B, Sanchis E, González-Nebauer S, de los Mozos M, Rodríguez-Conde MF, Santana O, Pastor-Férriz MT, Fernández JA, Santaella M, Roldán M, Tsimidou M, Polissiou M, Heslop-Harrison JS, Branca F, Mathew B. 2015. … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications, Species | Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, chromosomes, classification, crocus, Crocusbank, crops, descriptors, diversity, genes, genetic resources, genetics, morphology, phenotype, saffron, Saffronomics, taxonomy | 1 Comment

Chromosomal evolution in Brachiaria forage grasses with Fabiola Carvalho Santos

Posted on Friday, 12 September, 2014 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

Fabiola Santos from University of Londrina, Brazil, is working on the Chromosomal evolution and the organization of repetitive DNA sequences in diploid and polyploid Brachiaria forage grasses in the molecular cytogenetics group in Leicester. Brachiaria is most important cultivated forage grass genus … Continue reading →

Posted in chromosomes, Collaborators, Farming, Genomics, News, People, Research | Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, Brasil, Brazil, breeders, breeding, cerrado, chromosomes, collaborations, cytogenetics, evolution, forage, genome, genomics, grasses, hybrids, Londrina, molecular cytogenetics, polyploids, retroelements, wild relative | 1 Comment

Water stress and spring wheat – genetics and Pakistan

Posted on Tuesday, 27 August, 2013 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

TS. Noorka IR, Schwarzacher T. 2013. Water a response factor to screen suitable genotypes to fight and traverse periodic onslaughts of water scarcity in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). International Journal of Water Resources and Arid Environments 3(1): 37-44. ISSN 2079-7079 … Continue reading →

Posted in Publications | Tagged agriculture, agronomy, cereals, climate, dams, drought, genetics, irrigation, Population, Punjab, Water stress, wheat | Leave a comment

Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka – Collaborator from University of Sargodha, Pakistan and Visiting Research Fellow

Posted on Thursday, 02 May, 2013 by Pat Heslop-Harrison

Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka has broad interests in the development of productive and sustainable agriculture for Pakistan and developing countries. His interests complement those of the Molecular Cytogenetics Group, and have enabled us to extend our consideration of the outcomes … Continue reading →

Posted in Collaborators, Sustainability | Tagged agriculture, breeding, chromosomes, crops, cytogenetics, Faisalabad, food, food security, hybrids, linseed, pakistan, plants, water, wheat | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: agriculture

Allowing pseudoscience into EU risk assessment processes is eroding public trust in science experts and in science as a whole- The bigger picture

Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security

Plant Virus Evolution and Pararetroviruses in Petunia

Descriptors for Crocus (Crocus spp.)

Chromosomal evolution in Brachiaria forage grasses with Fabiola Carvalho Santos

Water stress and spring wheat – genetics and Pakistan

Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka – Collaborator from University of Sargodha, Pakistan and Visiting Research Fellow

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