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Articles of interest at the Cambridge University Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security

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'A trio of viral proteins tunes aphid-plant interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana'

Working with various agencies, Dr John Carr from the University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences and colleagues aim to help resource-poor farmers by deploying plants to act as aphid-decoys, drawing the insects away from crucial crops and halting the spread of infection through these...

Foreseer Project: Testing the water

Testing the water: Foreseer Project creates visually compelling messages about resource use A new online tool enables users to assess not only how much water we use and for what, but also how we can mitigate future scarcity. Water, like many other natural resources,is in both high demand and...

Phenotypic landscape inference reveals multiple evolutionary paths to C4 photosynthesis

In the new journal eLife , Williams, Johnston, Covshoff and Hibberd report a new mathematical approach that provides a theoretical understanding of how one of the most complex traits in biology evolved. They studied the highly efficient C4 photosynthetic pathway that allows increased crop...

Zukerman Junior Research Fellowship in Global Food Security

Zukerman Junior Research Fellowship in Global Food Security by Dr Ben Phalan My research is focused on how to reconcile human demands for food and other agricultural products with our responsibility to conserve other species. As pressure on land to provide food, fibre and fuel increases, working...

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'A trio of viral proteins tunes aphid-plant interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana'

Foreseer Project: Testing the water

Phenotypic landscape inference reveals multiple evolutionary paths to C4 photosynthesis

Zukerman Junior Research Fellowship in Global Food Security

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