The Earlham Institute (EI) will be part of the epic DNA sequencing project which aims to decipher the genetic code of 66,000 species in the UK, led by the Wellcome Sanger Institute, as part of a global effort to sequence the genomes of all 1.5 million known species of animals, plants, protozoa and fungi on Earth.
The UK arm, known as the Darwin Tree of Life Project (DTOL), has officially launched in London alongside the global effort, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP).
An international research team have uncovered the hidden genetic secrets that give wheat its remarkable ability for local adaptation - revealing a previously untapped resource for breeding better, more resilient wheat. The report, published in Genome Research, used a novel method developed by Earlham Institute.
Europe’s ash dieback epidemic could well have been caused by just one or two mushroom-like fruiting bodies of a fungal pathogen from Asia, according to a comprehensive genome sequencing effort published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. This leaves even the most resistant ash trees at threat from the introduction of just one more spore from East Asia.
The Earlham Institute (EI, UK) and the Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU, China) are working together towards resolving the urgent issue of agri-food security in China by developing precision agriculture solutions - funded by the Newton Network+. With the largest population in the world, China feeds nearly 1.4 billion people - covering 22% of the globe's inhabitants.
