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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
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
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Agriculture and Climate Change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, Climate Change Adaptation, Agronomy, and Water Security
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
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Plant Virus Evolution and Pararetroviruses in Petunia
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
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Tagged agriculture, banana, crops, disease, genomes, genomics, integration, musa, pararetroviruses, petunia, plants, prv, retroviruses, transcription, virus
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Descriptors for Crocus (Crocus spp.)
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
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Chromosomal evolution in Brachiaria forage grasses with Fabiola Carvalho Santos
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
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Water stress and spring wheat – genetics and Pakistan
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
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Tagged agriculture, agronomy, cereals, climate, dams, drought, genetics, irrigation, Population, Punjab, Water stress, wheat
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Dr Ijaz Rasool Noorka – Collaborator from University of Sargodha, Pakistan and Visiting Research Fellow
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
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Molecular cytogenetics and genome evolution 