News
See below for the latest news from the Warwick Crop Centre.
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Plants remember stress to help protect themselves
A new generation of plants better adapted to mitigate the effects of environmental change could be created following a fundamental step towards understanding how plants are able to retain a memory of stress exposure.
The research, led by Dr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos in the School of Life Sciences and published in the journal eLife, provides the first compelling evidence that plants have evolved ways to remember previous exposures to stress, in this case high salinity conditions, which can help subsequent progenies withstand the same stress in future.
Crop Centre PhD student's new position with Syngenta
Dr Max Newbert has recently secured a position with Syngenta as a Field Technical Manager. Max will take up his new position in August, when his current IAS and BBSRC Fellowships end in July. His role will involve co-ordinating Syngenta’s R&D for the North European Territory (including the UK) and educating the work force/industry about current and potential threats to agriculture. Max’s previous work with the Plant-Virus Interactions Group, led by Professor John Walsh, focused on the genetic diversity of plant viruses, helping to identify potentially durable virus-resistant plant lines. His PhD was funded by BBSRC’s Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC) that included major industry partners which he engaged with during the course of his research.
Controlling carrot fly in gardens
Royal Horticultural Society scientists are working with Warwick Crop Centre entomologists on methods of controlling carrot fly in gardens and allotments. A trial at RHS Wisley is testing different barriers to see whether they stop the flies reaching the plants to lay eggs.
How does research on pests at Warwick Crop Centre help gardeners?
Read the blog about the carrot fly trial at RHS Wisley
Warwick Crop Centre researchers speaking at AHDB workshops on narcissus
Warwick Crop Centre researchers John Clarkson and Rob Lillywhite will be speaking at Narcissus Grower Workshops in Lincolnshire and Cornwall later this month.