The Plantwise Blog

Here’s a taste of some of the latest stories about plant health, including the completion of the sequencing of the carrot genome, the threat of wheat blast in Asia and the potential use of spider venom as an effective natural pesticide.

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• Brilliant Brassica 
  TGAC, 12^th May 2016
• Soil management to secure a sustainable food supply chain
  ADAS, 12^th May 2016
• Scientists Crack Complete Genome of Carrot
  Crop Biotech Update, 11^th May 2016
• Wheat blast arrives in Asia
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 9^th May 2016
• Plant diseases are commonly confused with herbicide and insect damage
  Southernminn.com, 7^th May 2016
• What do higher carbon dioxide levels mean for crops?
  Farming Online, 6^th May 2016
• Improving efficiency of nitrogen fertiliser use in China: new UK-China Virtual Centre is launched
  Rothampstead Research, 5^th May 2016
• Could spider venom hold the holy grail of natural pesticides?
  Michigan Radio, 5^th May 2016
• Researchers use artificial evolution to combat insect pesticide resistance
  AgroNews, 3^rd May 2016
• GM banana with resistance to Mycosphaerella fijiensis shows promise
  International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences, 30^th March 2016

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