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Scientists call for international investment to tackle major wheat losses

The John Innes Centre has called for urgent investment in new research tools to address major global losses of wheat crops which cost 拢22 billion per year.

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Scientists call for international investment to tackle major wheat losses

In the past few years, researchers at the John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory have rapidly identified and cloned resistance genes in wheat and its wild relatives using technologies such as AgRenSeq,...

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