Protecting Potatoes: Unearthing Scotland’s Story
By Max Coleman, RBGE
By Max Coleman, RBGE
The fruit industry relies on a small number of varieties and a decreasing number of chemicals, presenting serious challenges for future sustainable growth. No suitable high-quality varieties with resistant to pests and diseases are available. This is coupled with climate change where unpredictability in phenotypic expression is resulting at both small and large spatial scales.
My research explores areas of biology that are academically and practically important. I develop and apply approaches to enable genetic and genomic analysis for exploring a wide range of issues related to plant biology.
This is the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
World Environment Day, on 5 June 2017, is designated as “the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment”. The theme for 2017 is connecting people to nature, and the UN is urging individuals to do something to take care of the Earth, or become an agent of change.