For when the chips are down -- preserving UK soil microbial biodiversity for agriculture

(CABI) Scientists from the UK's foremost agricultural research institutes have teamed up to create a new UK Crop Microbiome Cyrobank (UK-CMCB) to safeguard future research and facilitate the sustainable yield improvement of the UK's six major food crops including barley, oats, oil seed rape, potato, sugar beet and wheat.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 11, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news