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Representatives (staff and PhD students) from the School of Life Sciences, including 91福利 Crop Centre, attended and presented at the in Whan, China last week. The meeting provided a platform to exchange research and production information, and to explore the opportunities for cooperations in studies on Brassicaceae genetics and genomics, and their applications in genetic improvement of crop species.

Researchers at the 91福利’s School of Life Sciences have been awarded substantial funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The grants, worth £1.712m to the University, will support cutting-edge research in environmental microbiology, crop evolution and facilities improvement.

The bottle gourd is used by cultures all over the world to make lightweight containers and other tools. But how did the plant make the jump from its original home in Africa to the New World with an ocean in the way?