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The Bio-Protection Research Centre is a Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE), that pursues multidisciplinary research to meet the biosecurity and pest management needs of New Zealand's plant-based primary industries and natural ecosystems.

It was formed by New Zealand's leading plant protection scientists.

Current research programmes span a range of applications including computational intelligence, molecular biology, biotechnology and agro-ecology.

Based at Lincoln, many of the Centre's staff and postgraduate students are situated within the greater Lincoln campus - including the University and surrounding Crown Research Institutes.

Bio-Protection's well resourced laboratories are complemented by excellent field facilities and the NZ Biotron, one of only three plant growth facilities of its kind in the world.

More information is available from the Bio-Protection Research Centre Web site.

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The NADPH oxidases Nox1 and Nox2 differentially regulate volatile organic compounds, fungitastic activity, plant growth promotion and nutrient assimilation in Trichoderma atroviride

Cruz-Magalhaes, V.; Nieto-Jacobo, Maria; van Zijll de Jong, Eline; Rostas, Michael; Padilla-Arizmendi, F.; Kandula, Diwakar R. W.; Kandula, Janaki; Hampton, John G.; Herrera-Estrella, A.; Steyaert, Johanna M.; Stewart, Alison; Lopes Loguercio, L.; Mendoza-Mendoza, A. (Frontiers Media, 2019-01-23)

In eukaryotic systems, membrane-bound NADPH oxidases (Nox) generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a part of normal physiological functions. In the soil-borne mycoparasitic and plant facultative symbiont Trichoderma ...
Blurring alien introduction pathways risks losing the focus on invasive species policy

Hulme, Philip E.; Bacher, S.; Kenis, M.; Kühn, I.; Pergl, J.; Pyšek, P.; Roques, A.; Vilà, M. (Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-04-04)

The pathways by which alien species are introduced to new regions fall into six broad classes: deliberate release; escape from captivity; contaminant of a commodity; stowaway on a transport vector; via an infrastructure ...
Impact of different tree species on soil phosphorus immediately following grassland afforestation

Chirino Valle, Ivan; Davis, M. R.; Condron, Leo M. (Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del Suelo (Chilean Society of Soil Science), 2016-06)

Previous studies have revealed that significant changes in soil phosphorus (P) occurred as a consequence of grassland afforestation, although when these changes occurred and the influence of different tree species remains ...
TrichoGate: An improved vector system for a large scale of functional analysis of Trichoderma genes

Nogueira Lopez, Guillermo; Padilla-Arizmendi, F.; Inwood, S.; Lyne, S.; Steyaert, Johanna M.; Nieto-Jacobo, Maria; Stewart, Alison; Mendoza-Mendoza, A. (Frontiers Media, 2019-12-10)

Species of the genus Trichoderma are ubiquitous in the environment and are widely used in agriculture, as biopesticides, and in the industry for the production of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes. Trichoderma represents ...
Seed release by a serotinous pine in the absence of fire: Implications for invasion into temperate regions

Wyse, Sarah; Brown, J. E.; Hulme, Philip E. (Oxford University Press (OUP) on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company, 2019-12)

In pines, the release of seeds from serotinous cones is primarily considered a response to the high temperatures of a fire. However, the naturalization of serotinous pines in regions where fires are rare highlights the ...