State of the Art Facilities for UK Plant Science Launched
March 6, 2013| |
A new multi-million pound National Plant Phenomics Centre (NPPC) was recently launched at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences based at Aberyswyth University. The NPPC is being looked at as the future of agricultural and horticultural science, where thousands of plants' physical characteristics are studied based on genetics, the role of the environment in genetic expression, and the interplay between the two.
"The National Plant Phenomics Centre provides a step change in the way plant biology is implemented," says Professor John Doonan, Director of the NPPC. "The high throughput part allows whole populations of plants, such as breeding populations, mapping experiments, natural diversity collections, and mutant collections, to be analysed in parallel and under multiple defined environments."
See the detailed news report at http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/food-security/2013/130305-f-sci-fi-facilities-uk-plant-science.aspx
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