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Below are news updates and press releases specifically related to this website and the '100 Questions' project. On the left are links to current and past news and press release items.
Beneath the links on the left are links to related 'Plant Science' items, courtesy of the Gatsby Plants website.
100 Most Important Questions Facing Plant Science Research Published
- 22 September 2011
Plant scientist’ should take its rightful place beside ‘doctor’, ‘lawyer’ and ‘vet’ in the list of top professions to which our most capable young people aspire, according to a hard-hitting letter by an international group of botanists and crop scientists published in New Phytologist on the 8th September 2011.
The letter calls for a radical rethink of our approaches to plant science research and underlines how, with the Earth’s growing human population, this often neglected branch of science is crucial to our long-term survival.
After an online consultation, via this website the letter’s authors, who include plant scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the John Innes Centre, the Natural History Museum, the Royal Horticultural Society, universities, agriculture and industry have drawn up a list of 100 important questions that urgently need to be addressed by the next generation of plant biologists.
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100 Questions Panel Meeting
- 12 May 2009
The 100 Questions Panel met at the University of Bristol on the 23rd and 24th April 2009 to make an initial selection of questions.
A provisional list of questions selected by the panel is due to appear on this web site in June 2009.
We are currently drafting a publication to explain the rationale for choosing questions, comment on their context and significance, and suggest ways forward, including ways that questions might be addressed.
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100 Questions in the News!
- 4 March 2009
See coverage of 100 Questions at:
The University of Bristol
NFU Online
Lincolnshire Food and Farming
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Website is Now LIVE!
- 12 December 2008
100PLANTSCIENCEQUESTIONS.org.uk is now live and ready to accept your Plant Science Questions!
It is now possible to start to add your questions to the website.
Have a try - see how it works, and see if you have a question that makes the top 100!
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