RSB Director's Seminar, Professor Rod Peakall, Monday the 17th of February 2025.

Inbreeding depression can have major negative effects on both individual fitness and population-performance.

Over the last 10 years a number of studies have provided evidence demonstrating that improving photosynthesis can result in improved yield.

Many proteins migrate from cytoplasm to nucleus through their recognition by specialist receptors known as importins (IMPs).

The fungal pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, causes disease on many economically important cereal crops such as rice, wheat and barley.

Bacteriophages, with their intricate and highly specialized structures, represent some of the most fascinating architectures in the biological world. These viral entities serve as a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to chemical treatments in agriculture and as biocontrol agents against bacterial pathogens.

Rust diseases significantly threaten cereals and other crops, causing substantial losses in crop production worldwide and endangering global food security.

Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) is an ex vivo approach used to map the distribution of biomolecules within thin sections of tissue.

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), also known as retrotransposons, essentially carry two open reading frames that code for GAG and POL. Some ERVs additionally carry a third gene called envelope (env), becoming infectious.