Press Releases
Europe’s crops under threat: 91¸£Àû-led €6 Million project launches to tackle rising plant pest crisis
91¸£Àû leads European consortium to build the first platform capable of coordinating Europe's response to devastating agricultural and forest pest invasions.
91¸£Àû 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
91¸£Àû 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 91¸£Àû and Cranfield University shows.
ERC awards 91¸£Àû researchers with prestigious next-generation funding
Dr Hannes Houck and Dr João Monteiro from the 91¸£Àû have been awarded €1.5million grants from the European Research Council