• Research Capabilities
  • Sustainable land and water use
  • High performance plants
    • Breeding for targeted traits
    • Safety of gene biotechnologies
    • Technologies for growing gourmet foods
    • Natural pigments to enhance visual appeal
    • Bioactives from plants and produce
    • Increasing the value of cut flowers and foliage
    • Research programmes
  • Personalised foods
  • High value marine products
  • New biomolecules and biomaterials

We are developing systems to minimise the perceived risks of gene biotechnologies, including methods to prevent seed and pollen transmission of transgenes and systems to control the plant component in which transgenes are active, for example, root or leaf. We are also investigating the ecological impact of plants produced using gene technologies.

Outputs from our GM biosafety research (pdf 35KB)

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