Highland grasslands present a familiar landscape to anyone keen on mountain areas. These ecosystems are aesthetically pleasing, support many endemic species and are important grazing lands for both native animals and stock.

Sequeira Group Presentations

Novel cone-snail insulins and insulin-like growth factors to delineate mechanisms of insulin receptor activation and biased signalling

Organisms display a wide variety of social behaviours ranging from nesting aggregations to parental care to the amazingly complex societies found in eusocial insects such as honeybees, termites and ants.

Phi thickenings are peculiar secondary cell wall thickenings that form reinforcing bands around the radial walls of cortical cells in plant roots, a location where only a primary cell wall would normally be found.

Mitochondrial substrate transport in plants: tracking the roles of pyruvate, malate and citrate in plant respiration

Global crop yields per hectare have plateaued in recent years while consumption and population continue to grow.

Timothee Bonnet

This seminar begins with the three and a half fold increase in the farm yield of irrigated wheat from 1960 to 2019 in NW Mexico, the homebase of the CIMMYT wheat breeding program