... agreement with Individual. agriculture directed evolution enzymology plant breeding Enzymes can need improving in two conceptually different ways: In what they do, and in how well they do it when expressed in plant cells. First, the ‘ what ’ facet of enzyme improvement: Building...

...Ciara Tyrrell; Catherine M. Burgess; Fiona P. Brennan; Fiona Walsh Antibiotic resistance is currently one of the greatest threats to human health. The global overuse of antibiotics in human medicine and in agriculture has resulted in the proliferation and dissemination of a multitude of antibiotic...

... Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society 2017 agriculture disease environment lipids I was inspired to take a career as a biochemist by a lecture I received in my final year as an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham. At that time I was considering several options for my...

...Marcin W. Skiba; Timothy S. George; Elizabeth M. Baggs; Tim J. Daniell Modern agriculture has promoted the development of high-nitrification systems that are susceptible to major losses of nitrogen through leaching of nitrate and gaseous emissions of nitrogen oxide (NO and N 2 O), contributing...