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Added value and resilience

Reference	BBS/E/T/000PR9784
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Neil Hall
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Graham Moore, Professor Cristobal Uauy
Institution	Earlham Institute
Department	Earlham Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,022,482
Status	Current
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2017
End date	31/03/2023
Duration	59 months

Abstract

Food and nutrition security requires safe access to affordable and nutritious food supplies. We aim to enhance grain quality for human health, combat non-communicable diet-related diseases and improve the resilience of wheat production systems to biotic stresses. It addresses two topics, with shared objectives across the Designing Future Wheat BBSRC Strategic Porgramme (DFW) and other Rothamsted Research, John Innes Centre, Earlham Institute, Quadram Institute Bioscience and NIAB programmes. Both exploit previous BBSRC investments in germplasm resources and the latest genomic developments, to understand and manipulate the genes and pathways defining wheat grain composition and host resistance/susceptibility to pathogens/pests. We will dissect a range of traits exploiting the germplasm and other resources developed within DFW. These traits include resistance to a range of pathogens including yellow rusts.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, Diet and Health, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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