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‘Exciting’ anti-cancer compound discovered in the humble willow

More than a century after giving the world aspirin, another potential drug has been found in willows – this time with anti-cancer properties

15 Apr 2020

Gene breakthrough in fight against weeds

Development is a 'game-changer' for lab studies into herbicide resistance

8 Apr 2020

Scientists demonstrate that white flour is the healthiest it’s been in 200 years

Despite concerns over a lack of genetic diversity, modern wheat has more health benefits

6 Apr 2020

Michael Wakelam 1955 – 2020

Message from Angela Karp, Interim Director, Rothamsted Research

3 Apr 2020

British moths declining but aphid numbers stable

Analysis of 24 million individual insects paints a complicated picture of changing population dynamics

4 Mar 2020

People's views determine success of disease control strategies

Emphasising the effectiveness of control - and not risk from infection - may be key to combating pathogens

6 Feb 2020

Scientists prove high fibre white loaf is possible

Group identifies parts of the genome that control fibre content of white flour, raising hope that products will be in shops within five years

5 Feb 2020

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28 Jan 2020

Herbicide resistant weed could cost UK £1 billion a year

Economic model addresses the costs of resistance in blackgrass

23 Dec 2019

Untapped genetic potential means wheat yields only 60% of what they could be

Study shows after 11,000 years of wheat breeding, we've still got a long way to go

12 Dec 2019

Gene data suggests 'superbug' threat is underestimated

Discoveries of single mutations that increase microbe infectiousness have quadrupled since 2015

27 Nov 2019

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Our pest, weed and disease app CROPROTECT has received a major new update

27 Nov 2019

Prof makes world’s best list for 18th year running

Alongside 23 Nobel laureates, two Rothamsted staff are named among this year’s global elite

20 Nov 2019

Down, but not out

Fifty-year study shows the rise then fall of moths - but it's no 'insectageddon'

6 Nov 2019

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES TO BOOST AFRICAN SCIENCE

Exciting partnership covers a wide range of topics aimed at building agricultural capacity

1 Nov 2019

Future rice could reduce reliance on water intensive paddy fields

New research project aims to catalyse a rice revolution that will benefit low-income farmers and save water

17 Oct 2019

Major step towards infant formula that is more like human milk

Research team engineer plants to produce the human form of key fat molecule

2 Oct 2019