Our research on genome evolution in agricultural species provides data-driven insights and evidence-based decision-making for breeding and crop improvement and biodiversity conservation or exploitation. It supports policy and practices, with fundamental implications for genome evolution. Work is at University of Leicester and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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People, collaborators, editing and teaching
The group includes PIs, postdoctoral, PhD & project researchers, sabbatical visitors and a part time technician. Our lab is involved in reviewing and editing many journals, including Annals of Botany, Genome, Plant Reproduction and Theoretical and Applied Genetics. We also advise and review national (including REF sub-panel) and international laboratories and programmes. We give undergraduate and advanced courses in Leicester and internationally. Pat Heslop-Harrison is a Professor in University of Leicester (80%) and PI in the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Our publications, conferences, press and social media
We have an active publication programme. Titles of recent publications are listed here, or available from Pubmed. www.MolCyt.org contains abstracts and links from 2012 while publications from earlier are here (including at the John Innes Centre JIC, Norwich and Plant Breeding Institute PBI, Cambridge). Information about talks, interviews and other outputs is here.
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