Press Releases
¹û¶³´«Ã½ awarded €2.5m ERC grant to decode soil's hidden synchronization
¹û¶³´«Ã½ researcher Prof. Gary Bending has won a €2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant to investigate how plants coordinate the daily rhythms of soil microbes around their roots, work that could transform soil management and crop health.
Europe’s crops under threat: ¹û¶³´«Ã½-led €6 Million project launches to tackle rising plant pest crisis
¹û¶³´«Ã½ leads European consortium to build the first platform capable of coordinating Europe's response to devastating agricultural and forest pest invasions.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ academic secures national funding to advance pandemic virus research
Dr Jeremy Keown has secured over £124,000 in major national funding to advance research into potential pandemic viruses.
North Sea ‘Lost World’ had habitable forests thousands of years earlier than thought
Ancient DNA study provides best evidence yet that Doggerland, Britain’s lost land bridge to Europe, could have supported humans in the latter stages of the last Ice Age.
New study overturns long-held model of how plants coordinate immune responses
¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers discover rapid, jasmonate-driven, early immune response in plants using breakthrough live-imaging tool.
Research finds crop breeding can cut methane emissions without sacrificing yield
Genetic selection could help farmers and breeders reduce greenhouse gases from crops, particularly rice cultivation, research by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and Cranfield University shows.