September 15, 2015

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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $2.3M for plant disease resistance to the Two Blades Foundation - Project aims to understand how biodiversity endows plants with resistance to pathogens

July 14, 2015

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Dr Nicola Patron, Head of Synthetic Biology at The Sainsbury Laboratory, establishes first common standard for assembly of DNA parts in plant SynBio

July 1, 2015

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The Sainsbury Laboratory's Professor Jonathan Jones wins €2.5M European Research Council grant for plant immune receptor research

June 7, 2015

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The quest to engineer the perfect potato - Researchers in the United Kingdom aim for a new commercial potato that resists many of the worst vulnerabilities of potato crops around the world (MIT Technology Review)

June 3, 2015

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Science collaborations can help beat wheat disease, conference told

June 1, 2015

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Funding approved to develop new potato at The Sainsbury Laboratory

May 27, 2015

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Plant receptors with built-in decoys make pathogens betray themselves

Science collaborations can help beat wheat disease, conference told (Evening News 24)

April 17, 2015

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The Sainsbury Laboratory's Professor Cyril Zipfel receives Charles Albert Shull Award

April 9, 2015

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Exotic plant fungus yellow rust a 'serious threat to UK wheat production' (FarmingUK)

March 11, 2015

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Scientists transfer pathogen-sensing ‘antenna’ gene to wheat

March 2, 2015

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New genomics-driven surveillance to track crop diseases and tackle emerging and re-emerging crop pathogens that threaten global food security

January 23, 2015

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New world-class scientific collaboration to use genomics to combat devastating crop rusts - Seven scientific teams from the co-located Institutes The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL), have joined forces in the fight against rust fungi which can cut crop yields by up to 80 percent*

December 18, 2014

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New research leader joins TGAC and The Sainsbury Laboratory to improve wheat genomics

June 23, 2014

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Influential minds are working in agri-tech

April 23, 2014

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Major advance in understanding plant disease resistance

March 12, 2014

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Missing link in plant immunity identified

February 24, 2014

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Scientists boost resistance of potatoes to late blight

February 19, 2014

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First Agri-tech Cluster Director announced

February 17, 2014

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GM spuds beat blight - In a three-year GM research trial, scientists boosted resistance of potatoes to late blight, their most important disease, without deploying fungicides

October 16, 2013

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International team uncovers mechanism for natural plant immunity - Implications for developing broad-spectrum disease crop resistance

September 19, 2013

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PBL patent on potato late blight resistance granted in Europe and the US

November 20, 2012

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Major international push to maximise bioscience research to help world’s poorest farmers

November 2, 2012

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Plant interaction with friendly bacteria gives pathogens their break

October 31, 2012

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Plant Bioscience awarded further U.S. patent on short RNAi molecules

August 9, 2012

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United Kingdom - Genetically modified potato trial near Norwich yields evidence of success (Norwich Evening News)

April 18, 2012

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Plant scientists from Norwich Research Park are gathering evidence on the precise ways in which plants are affected by rising temperatures and falling rainfall levels

January 27, 2012

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Wild grass to stem devastating progress of stem rust

January 23, 2012

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Science to help rice growers affected by Japan’s tsunami

January 18, 2012

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Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL) awarded U.S. patent on RNAi