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Jul 23, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Sainsbury Laboratory |Heinrich Heine

The cellular dynamics of growth regulatory phytohormones act as signal integration nodes that allow plant development to continually adjust to environmental conditions. Gibberellin (GA) hormones are required for cell and organ elongation in many developmental contexts, including several with implications for agricultural yields such as germination, budbreak, stem elongation, branching, and flowering (Gao and Chu 2020; Wang et al. 2021; Wu et al. 2021; Cheng et al. 2022; Liu et al. 2022).

Nov 7, 2023 | genomebiology.biomedcentral.com | Sainsbury Laboratory

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Apr 12, 2023 | inkl.com | Sainsbury Laboratory

Wheat blast fungus was first identified in Brazil in 1985 and gradually spread to neighbouring countries. More recently pandemics have appeared in Bangladesh and Zambia. In Bangladesh in 2016, it destroyed around 15,000 hectares, spreading to more than 16% of the country’s cultivated wheat area and consuming up to 100% of yields, while in Zambia outbreaks have continued to occur with varying severity since its arrival in 2018.