New collaboration to provide crops protection from climate change

A new project seeks to research molecular priming and provide plants with protection from adverse weather

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New collaboration to provide crops protection from climate change

The James Hutton Institute is collaborating with leading research groups and industrial collaborator BioAtlantis in a new European research project called "CropPrime." With EU Horizon funding of up...

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