Dr Simon Griffiths, a group leader at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich and programme lead for the Delivering Sustainable Wheat Institute Strategic Programme (ISP), is the 2024 winner of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) award for science and technology.

His research group employs modern gene discovery techniques to find useful genetic diversity from the Watkins Collection - an assembly of historic bread wheat seeds from 32 countries.

The genetic diversity found in this collection can be used to improve modern wheat crops,........

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