PhD: Engineering Disease-Resistant Crops for Yield

University of East Anglia

Norwich

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GBP 26,000 - 27,000

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University of East Anglia in Norwich invites applications for a four-year PhD studentship focused on engineering crop disease resistance to overcome growth-defence trade-offs. You will study resistance to potato cyst nematodes and develop programmable expression using regulatory libraries and automated DNA assembly in world-class facilities.

Based at the Earlham Institute and Norwich Research Park, this interdisciplinary PhD combines engineering biology, plant molecular biology and laboratory

Job description

University of East Anglia in Norwich invites applications for a four-year PhD studentship focused on engineering crop disease resistance to overcome growth-defence trade-offs. You will study resistance to potato cyst nematodes and develop programmable expression using regulatory libraries and automated DNA assembly in world-class facilities.

Based at the Earlham Institute and Norwich Research Park, this interdisciplinary PhD combines engineering biology, plant molecular biology and laboratory

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