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Taking the ‘genetic brakes’ off wheat

Taking the ‘genetic brakes’ off wheat

October 27, 2016/in All Videos, Feed the world, Student Projects /by Claire Pennycuick

Dr Cristobal Uauy is passionate about helping the world’s poorest farmers increase the amount of crops they get from their fields. He’s moved from South America to Norfolk to use the new understanding of the wheat genome to create higher yielding wheat varieties. In this video, he explains how his group may be on the verge of a breakthrough.

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