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Imagine a world without wheat… No bread, no cakes, no pasta and no noodles. But as we speak, the world’s wheat supplies are being ravaged by a dangerous epidemic.

Join us for the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2022 given by Professor Diane Saunders.

Professor Saunders will introduce you to the notorious “polio of agriculture”, the wheat rusts, that throughout history have endangered the production of one of our oldest and most precious food crops.

Despite long-standing efforts by a global community to wrestle the wheat rusts into submission, new strains are constantly evolving that can overcome the barriers we create to inhibit infection, and once again leave the world’s wheat crops vulnerable. Professor Saunders will discuss how phenomenal recent scientific advances have created the tools and resources in our arsenal that now have the real potential to finally outsmart these cereal killers and safeguard a sustainable food supply for generations to come.

Professor Diane Saunders is a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Her research focuses on (re-)emerging plant pathogens that pose a significant threat to agriculture.


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