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Dec
A major, multi-million pound study led by the University of Dundee will aim to reveal the secrets of an invisible war that threatens food production worldwide. Experts from the University’s School of Life Sciences will work with partners from across the country to determine how pathogens cause crop diseases such as potato blight. Part of a collaboration with colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, the Sainsbury Laboratory of the University of Cambridge (SLCU) and Imperial College London, the project has been facilitated by a £5.91 million funding award from UKRI, with the five year study starting early next year. Approximately…