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Professor Daljit Virk has built an impressive career in plant breeding that spans five decades. He's developed rice varieties for some of India's most impoverished farmers using plant breeding methods that some considered untraditional at the time.

Entrepreneurs Will Pelton and Nick Kral, founders of Phytoform Labs, explain the genome editing technology that is the foundation of their business and share why they are excited about their platform’s potential to deliver new crop traits efficiently, safely and sustainably.

This time last year I posted an article entitled “Why 2020 is going to be amazing (and really full-on)”.  With the benefit of hindsight, it’s quite comedic, isn’t it?

Our CEO, Hannah Senior, spoke to BBC York's Gods Own Country File earlier this week to give a preview of the forthcoming Future Farmers of Yorkshire, Autumn Debate, with the Yorkshire Agricultural Society!

We’re delighted to announce the publication of yet another research paper; Evaluating the pollen proofing of nonwoven synthetic fabric pollination control tents for sugar beet by Paul Townson, Daljit Singh Virk and Hannah Senior. 

We’re delighted to announce the publication of the latest research paper Assessing the effectiveness of nonwoven fabric pollination tents for improved grass breeding by Michael Trammell, Dusty G. Pittman, Daljit Singh Virk and Hannah Senior.