Creativity And Innovation Jobs in Dundee

Are you looking for a challenging rewarding and meaningful business support role at an organisation thats tackling global land use issues and exploring solutions to the multiple crises relating to climate biodiversity food security and energy The James Hutton Institute is a well-respected and global...

Potato genetics unlike the genetics of other major crops has experienced limited progress due to the complexity of its tetrasomic inheritance. However the potato genetics group (Hein Chen and Adams) has made significant strides in this field. Their work has successfully developed molecular markers f...

Background Most potato (Solanum tuberosum) varieties are highly sensitive to elevated temperature reflecting their origin in the cool climates of the Andes in South America. This project directly targets critical knowledge gaps surrounding sustainable potato production: the loss of marketable yield...

Developing crop cultivars that are resilient to climate change and can help mitigate its effects will be critical to supporting healthy soils and reducing the environmental impact of food production. Key to this are the interactions plants have with soil microorganisms. Plants can influence microbia...

Background: Parasitic helminth infections are ubiquitous in grazing livestock throughout the world causing significant economic and animal health burdens. Treatment and control of these parasites rely on a limited number of anthelmintic classes but resistance to all classes is now widespread. There...

Cereals are our most important staple foods supplying about 50% of global dietary energy. Cereal crops were domesticated from their wild progenitors thousands of years their wild form mature grains naturally fall from the plant in a process called shattering. Early farmers collected and replanted w...