Nematodes are a major cause of loss of crop yield in a wide variety of crops.
CGT have developed novel methods of increasing resistance…….


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Increasing the yield of oil and starch is one of the major drivers of the Biofuels sector. CGT have novel innovative ways of addressing this opportunity……..

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We have used promoter trapping as one technique to identify genes expressed in specific plant tissues, and in particular in or around feeding sites induced in roots of Arabidopsis plants infected by pathogenic nematodes...

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We have identified a novel mechanism by which plant cells maintain their viability. CGT has discovered that extracellular ATP (eATP), previously of unknown physiological role, is essential for plant cells to stay alive...

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With the unravelling of human, plant and microbial genomes, biology is becoming ‘big science’. High-tech and high throughput solutions are needed to understand how genes influence the growth and yield of crop plants...

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There are increasing concerns in the Agricultural sector regarding legislation to reduce the use of crop protective agents such as herbicides , insecticides and fungicides. CGT have discovered mechanisms of increasing basal resistance………

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Arabidopsis thaliana is a small weed with big implications for plant science research. For several decades it has been used for genetic studies, because of the ease of producing genetic variants with altered traits of interest....

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CGT has access to a wide range of new technologies for gene identification and functional analysis, including protein biochemistry and proteomics, including......

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