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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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Dissecting the events of the Trichoderma-plant interaction through proteomics and metabolomics approaches: Trichoderma virens and maize as model systems

Nogueira Lopez, Guillermo (Lincoln University, 2019)

In nature, almost every plant is colonised by fungi. Trichoderma virens is a biocontrol fungus which has the capacity to behave as an facutaltive plant endophyte. Even though many plants are colonised by this symbiont, the ...
Effectiveness of Vetiver grass versus other plants for phytoremediation of contaminated water

Darajeh, N.; Truong, P.; Rezania, S.; Alizadeh, Hossein; Leung, D. W. M. (Dorma Trading Est., 2019-08-29)

Worldwide water pollution level in the last few decades has been exponentially increased as a result of industrialisation. This global increase occurs in both developed and developing countries, but more significantly in ...
Effect of pollen source and stigma receptivity on seed production in ten cultivars of Dianthus plumarius L.

Hewage, N. P.; Hampton, John G.; Hill, Murray J. (New Zealand Seed Technology Institute on behalf of the International Herbage Seed Group, 1999)

Dianthus plumarius L. is usually propagated vegetatively, but seed propagation is an option. However, erratic and often poor seed setting can be a problem in Dianthus spp. Pollen viability, stigma receptivity and the effect ...
Effects of plant density on seed yield in Caucasian clover (Trifolium ambiguum Bieb.) cv. Monaro

Fu, S. M.; Hampton, John G.; Hill, Murray J. (New Zealand Seed Technology Institute on behalf of the International Herbage Seed Group, 1999)

A radial trial design was used to determine the effect of plant density on seed yield of Caucasian clover (Trifolium ambiguum Bieb.) cv. Monaro, and the seed yield response of twelve genotypes selected from within cv. ...
The relationship between applied nitrogen, nitrogen concentration in herbage and seed yield in perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.). I. Cv. Grasslands Nui at five sites around the globe

Rowarth, J. S.; Boelt, B.; Hampton, John G.; Marshall, A. H.; Rolston, M. P.; Sicard, G.; Silberstein, T. B.; Sedcole, John R.; Young III, W. C. (New Zealand Seed Technology Institute on behalf of the International Herbage Seed Group, 1998)

Potential environmental problems following the use of applied nitrogen (N) in cropping have resulted in research on indicators which attempt to ensure that the amount of N applied matches the specific requirements for the ...