The University of Sheffield Institute for Sustainable Food has identified a way to commercialise ‘priming chemicals’ that can be used as a crop protection technology to boost the immune system of plants.
The chemicals increase the resistance of plants and enable a faster and stronger defence reaction against pests and diseases. This alternative crop protection strategy offers long-term immune protection for plants, unlike more popular pesticides.
Our chairman of Northern Gritstone, Jim O’Neill, writes how the inequalities in the UK economy create great investment opportunities which will have wider impact. Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a speech in Coventry about Read more…
Scientists at the University of Leeds have developed an approach that could help in the design of a new generation of synthetic biomaterials made from proteins. The biomaterials could eventually have applications in joint repair Read more…
A device that helps desperately sick patients breathe and costs around £150 to manufacture could revolutionise It has been designed to provide therapeutic oxygen support to patients severely ill with Covid-19, pneumonia or other forms of respiratory Read more…