The Sainsbury Laboratory

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The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is a world-leading research centre focusing on making fundamental discoveries about plants and how they interact with microbes.

TSL not only provides fundamental biological insights into plant-pathogen interactions, but is also delivering novel, genomics-based, solutions which will significantly reduce losses from major diseases of food crops, especially in developing countries.

TSL is an independent charitable company and receives strategic funding from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation with the balance coming from competitive grants and contracts from a range of public and private bodies, including the European Union (EU), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and commercial and charitable organisations

Product Types offered by this company

- Onderzoek en ontwikkeling (R&D)

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New resistance genes against late blight were identified in a close relative of the potato, Solanum americanum

februari 22, 2021

Late blight resistance genes identified in potato relative Solanum americanum

An international team of researchers has struck an important blow in the ongoing evolutionary arms race with the notorious potato disease late blight (Phytophthora infestans).

Descubren que las patatas silvestres son claves para aumentar la resistencia. Arriba se muestra Solanum Stoloniferum (Cortesía: Cultivariable)

augustus 14, 2019

Scientists discover wild potatoes key for stronger spuds

Scientists discover wild potatoes key for stronger spuds.

Dr Ingo Hein is a senior scientist based at the Cell and Molecular Sciences group of the James Hutton Institute

juli 31, 2019

Four late blight 'resistancy' genes in current commercial potato varieties already defeated by Phytophthora Infestans

Recent research at the James Hutton Institute suggests that limited genetic differences in potato lineages has left British and American spuds vulnerable to late blight, the disease that caused the Irish potato famine.

The effect of late blight on the resistant GM potato plants versus the not-resistant regular Maris Piper plants is plain to see.

oktober 26, 2017

First field trial with GM Maris Piper resistant to late blight went brilliantly

A genetically-modified (GM) Maris Piper designed to resist the devastating plant disease late blight has worked “brilliantly” during the first year of field trials, according to scientists of The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL)

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