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Fixing the Nitrogen Problem
3 October 2017 By David Dent, Chief Technical Officer and a Founder Director of Azotic Technologies Ltd. Nitrogen is crucial to agriculture and no plant can grow without it. To manufacture nitrogen fertilizer, 500 million tonnes of ammonia are produced … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, crop improvement, environment, plant science
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‘Power Plants’: renewable energy from photosynthesis
28 March 2017 By Barney Slater AMRSB, BBSRC PhD student at University of Cambridge and policy intern at the Royal Society of Biology, talks about renewable energy from photosynthesis. The need for renewable energy will only increase as our global … Continue reading
The Nagoya Protocol: The fair and equitable use of genetic resources
3 August 2016 By Katie Beckett, ABS Project Manager at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy The world’s flora has been studied for millennia. The first plant records known to exist are from the Neolithic Revolution, about 1000 … Continue reading
State of the World’s Plants
31 May 2016 By Richard Deverell – Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recently published the first annual report on the State of the World’s Plants, alongside an international science and policy symposium on the topic. … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, ecology, Education, environment, genetics, horticulture, plant breeding, plant science, sustainability, UK Plant Sciences Federation
Tagged biodiversity, crop improvement, ecology, education, environment, global change, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant science, sustainable development
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PlantSci2016 conference: Plants in a changing world, from molecular to ecosystem
19 April 2016 By Geraint Parry, GARNet Coordinator Five years after the inaugural meeting of the UK Plant Science Federation took place at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in 2011, the UK PlantSci 2016 conference returned to this worldwide centre … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, crop improvement, ecology, environment, genetics, horticulture, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant science, UK Plant Sciences Federation, UK PlantSci
Tagged conference, ecology, environment, genetically modified, health, John Innes Centre, photosynthesis, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant science, plants, Rothamsted
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Actions for plant science in the UK – UKPSF Working Group reports
A personal overview – by Dr Sandy Knapp FRSB Plant science has a broad reach – from molecules to ecosystems, and from blue skies to near-market research and practical applications. The UKPSF was formed to bring the plant science sector … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, biotechnology, careers, crop improvement, ecology, Education, environment, forestry, genetics, health, horticulture, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant science, sustainability, UK Plant Sciences Federation
Tagged plant science, regulation, research funding, skills, training, training and skills, translation, UKPSF
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How can plants change the world?
By Dr Joseph Buhagiar FSB, lecturer at the University of Malta. He received the first overseas award of the Royal Society of Biology’s Regional Grant Scheme. It all started with an email from David Urry on 6th January pertaining to … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, climate change, Education, environment, health, plant science, sustainability
Tagged biodiversity, climate change, environment, funding, health, medicine, plant science, plants
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The Global Plant Council
Did you know the UK Plant Sciences Federation is a member of the Global Plant Council (GPC)? What is the Global Plant Council? The Global Plant Council (GPC) is a non-profit coalition of plant, crop, agricultural and environmental science societies … Continue reading
The Gatsby Plant Science Summer School – 10 years on
By Celia Knight FSB Ten years after the first Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, I’d like to introduce the first of a series of blogs to highlight some of the progress made in the science presented 10 years ago and … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, biosecurity, biotechnology, careers, climate change, crop improvement, ecology, Education, environment, evolution, forestry, genetics, health, horticulture, Internships, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant science, sustainability, UK Plant Sciences Federation
Tagged botany, careers, education, Internships, plant science
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Highlights from UK PlantSci 2015
Over 135 plant scientists, policymakers and educators from across the UK and further afield came together for the fourth annual UK PlantSci conference, held at Harper Adams University on 14th and 15th April. The meeting hosted a diverse programme of … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, biodiversity, biofuels, biosecurity, biotechnology, citizen science, climate change, crop improvement, ecology, Education, environment, evolution, forestry, genetics, health, horticulture, plant breeding, plant pathology, sustainability, UK Plant Sciences Federation, UK PlantSci
Tagged agriculture, ash dieback, biodiversity, biosecurity, biotechnology, climate change, crop improvement, ecology, education, environment, forestry, funding, plant breeding, plant pathology, plants
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