John Innes Center Scientist Receives Research Medal
August 20, 2010| |
John Innes Centre Professor James Brown has been awarded with the Royal Agricultural Society of England Research Medal in recognition of his effort to fight cereal diseases. The Research Medal is given to persons with outstanding work conducted in the UK that greatly benefit agriculture.
Professor Brown pioneered the work of battling Septoria tritici blotch, a serious wheat disease in UK. His work underpinned the breeding of resistant varieties to Septoria. Furthermore, Professor Brown's team is now using the similar technique to increase the resistance of UK's barley varieties to Ramularia through a project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the Scottish Government's Directorate for Rural and Environment Research and Analysis, and the HGCA.
Read the press release at http://www.jic.ac.uk/corporate/media-and-public/current-.releases/100812JamesBrownRASEmedal.htm
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