The Sainsbury Laboratory News from TSL www.tsl.ac.uk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:06:42 +0000 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:05:50 +0000 FeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.1.0) Norwich gene hunters tackle crop diseases Norwich scientists are on the trail of some of the most economically damaging organisms that infect crops worldwide. Their latest targets are the parasitic water fungus that causes powdery mildew and the water molds that cause late blight in potatoes and tomatoes and downy mildew in cruciferous vegetables and other crops. http://www.tsl.ac.uk/genehunters.html Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:05:50 +0000 GM trial to reduce agrochemicals A field trial of GM potatoes is being planted this week to test whether genes from wild relatives can successfully protect commercial potato varieties from late blight, the disease that caused the Irish potato famine, without the need to spray fungicides. http://www.tsl.ac.uk/gmtrial.html 68D870CF-790D-4B27-BBE4-E73ACFD2739C Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:50:06 +0000 Royal Society global food security report published The Sainsbury Laboratory welcomes a Royal Society report calling for an investment of £2 billion into a research programme on global food security. The report published today (21 October 2009) says that the UK should lead international research efforts if we are to achieve the massive increase in food crop production that will be required by 2050 to meet global food demands without damaging the environment. http://royalsociety.org/Reapingthebenefits/ Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:11:43 +0000 TSL scientists helped crack the code that bacteria use to manipulate agricultural crops Sebastian Schornack, currently working with Sophien Kamoun at TSL, co-disovered the code which explains how bacterial effectors bind to specific host plant DNA sequences, manipulating host gene expression and leading to disease. This work is now published in Science. http://www.tsl.ac.uk/docs/SciencepaperSebastianSS.pdf C02135D7-3E8B-476B-9856-0A5067EC7D96 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:35:32 +0000