At the end of a busy news week for BEES, research by a team led by Prof. Peter Jones has been featured in one of Britain’s top farming magazines – Farmers Weekly.
The article focuses on work being conducted to see if seaweed extracts can protect plants from abiotic stress:
“This spring has seen large extremes in weather patterns from drought to flooding, causing stress to arable crops. But one researcher at University College, Cork, believes a certain chemical found in seaweed could make crops more stress tolerant.”