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Cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) is one of the most important staple food crops produced globally, primarily grown in low-input subsistence farming systems in the tropics and subtropics. In Africa alone, an estimated 800 million people rely on cassava for their primary calorific intake. Threatening food production In recent...

Algal Innovation Centre spearheads department’s new video channel Brand new videos on the Plant Metabolism Research group and the Algal Innovation Centre launched the department’s new Youtube channel this week. They feature insight and comment from the staff and students who help make the group and centre two of the...

New initiatives boost access to the University Herbarium collection The University Herbarium has taken a major step towards making more of its collections available to the world’s research community with the appointment of Dr Anne Dubéarnès as its first Special Collections Researcher. Dr Dubéarnès will focus on identifying...

A break from the lawn: Can an iconic meadow seed wider change By Jacqueline Garget It's No-Mow May - the month we’re encouraged to let lawns and verges grow, wildflowers bloom, and insects feed. Opinions are divided, and understandably so: letting lawns go wild breaks with a 300 year-old tradition. But the gardeners of an...