The decline of plant science in Britain is evident in both private and public sectors.
GM, the boom area in plant science, are not being created in Britain.
Three years ago, Ed Iles, from Essex, graduated with a 2:1 in plant science hoping for a career in scientific research.
Thomas Moritz, of the Umea Plant Science Centre in Sweden, and his colleagues, have found out how to make hybrid poplars that reflect this industrial preference.
Simon Best, former head of plant science at Zeneca, looks forward to the day when molecular switches might be so sophisticated that the process of infection or drought will itself be enough to turn on a genetically engineered resistance gene.
"If you think about plant and insect interaction, what we have is almost like an arms race between the two, " suggested John Gatehouse, from the University of Durham's Institute of Plant and Microbial Science.
It is one of the least hospitable but most biologically diverse places on earth and home to thousands of plant and and animal species previously unknown to science.
The results of the experiments, reported in the journal Science, show that the modified plant can thrive even when salt levels are twice the amount that would kill a normal crop of corn.
At the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and other botanic gardens around the world, our plant scientists and horticulturists are working towards effective, science-based conservation solutions to ensure that we leave a healthy and hopeful world to the next generation.
For the community of plant scientists, and its supporters in government and the wider world of science, this is a vital test of strength.
But rebuilding an entire plant takes a lot of effort and tech transfer can be an imperfect science if the underlying processes were problematic in the first place.
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The Plant Genome Research Road Map, as it's called, was unveiled at the Indian Science Congress in Chandigarh.
The Daily Yomiuri continued to follow the government's moves to investigate the accident with a story about how Japan's Science and Technology Agency plans to exactly re-create the nuclear fission chain reactions that occurred at the plant--presumably under safer conditions.
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