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Chiho describes her important work in looking for varieties of wheat which could help increase food production in arid areas.

Nao describes her work in investigating the ways in which wheat can be made to cope with the higher temperatures expected from global warming.

One of the major parasites is striga, a weed that sucks the juice and nutrients from cereal crops such as millet, sorghum and maize and causes great yield losses. A single striga plant can produce hundreds of thousands of seeds. The seeds are so tiny....

Flowers are such a ubiquitous and familiar part of our modern world that it is easy to take them for granted. But as Darwin recognized, the exquisite details of their structure and appearance have been shaped by evolutionary processes over millions o....