Pat Heslop-Harrison (with collaborators listed below) examines why it's not just humans that need better crops.
Author - Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
The Hungry Gap: Food for temperate February and March
Have we banished the hungry gap? Pat Heslop-Harrison has been talking to BBC Radio Leicester.
Plant collections and flowers for the start of the year #Countryfile
Why do we collect plants? Pat Heslop-Harrison finds out with the BBC television show Countryfile.
Science, technology and innovation for Africa with the EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue stakeholder panel
What does it mean to work towards Sustainable Development? Pat Heslop-Harrison, editor of Annals of Botany, has been discussing the issue in Brussels with European stakeholders.
Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I also saw a passive-aggressive complaint about people...
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International Botanical Congress #IBC2017 and the big picture from Shenzhen
Sometimes confusing & contradictory, but also energetic & innovative. Pat Heslop-Harrison looks for the key themes from the International Botanical Congress.
International Women’s Day 2017: Celebrating Professor Winifred Pennington
For International Women's Day, we are celebrating the work and achievements of Professor Winifred Pennington FRS. You can download a free poster of her life at the end of this article.
Plant Records: An ever increasing pot of gold
Name: Maize or Corn Scientific name: Zea mays Known for: Food of the Gods (or Blasphemy against them when in Corn Dogs) Record broken: Yields I expect most of you have limited direct experience with many of our other...
Cryopreservation on the farm and in the news
Almost all the milk we drink will come from cows whose father’s sperm was frozen. It is quite likely that their father himself was an embryo transfer bull, who started ‘life’ in frozen in liquid...
Risk, reward and hazard
I had started writing about risk assessment for AoBBlog a few weeks ago, but only this week I’ve met a critical risk assessment in practice. I’m writing this when I should be on a flight to Africa: why am I not on that...
The most common grape variety you’ve never heard of: Airen and careful winemaking
As the wine harvest reaches its peak in the Northern Hemisphere, what are the top three grapes? Interestingly, despite the volume of wine produced globally, and the long-lived plantations / vineyards, there have been...
European Cytogenetics Conference: Chromosomes, sequences, Mendel and humans
The European Cytogenetics Conference, this year #ECA2015 in Strasbourg, is a terrific meeting to hear the latest on chromosome research, with a strong focus on human research but lots that is important for plant and...
Building a Linux computer for imaging and informatics
I’m going to show my age here, but it is 30 years since I last built my own computer! What a change. The job then involved lots of razor sharp metal edges, drilling out dozens of holes, hundreds of soldered...
Genome Editing the Plant and Animal Genomes conference series
It’s now nearly mid-way between Plant and Animal Genome Conferences held each January in San Diego. This is an annual conference where you can pick up on trends in genomic research with an emphasis on crops and to a...
