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On Tuesday 6 January, from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre shared her vegetable knowledge with BBC Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire's Phil Upton.

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The School of Life Sciences has been ranked second in the UK for Agriculture, Food and Veterinary research in the Government's 2014 research ranking exercise.

The ranking exercise known as the “Research Excellence Framework (REF)” is run by the UK’s higher education funding bodies, to assess the quality of UK research and to inform the distribution of public funds for research until the next ranking exercise in 2020.

The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ was ranked as the 7th highest university.

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¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre researcher, , spoke about the (VeGIN) on BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today this morning. Graham described a research project at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ which aims to help plant breeders produce new strains of brassicas.

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