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Wheat research targets a number of traits to improve heat stress and improved water use efficiency | The Land

Today’s research dedicated to finding traits with superior heat stress tolerance, combined with high yield in non-stressful situations, aims to accelerate the development of more hardy durable varieties. Dr Thistlethwaite notes that research shows when temperatures exceed 28 degrees during wheat reproductive growth stages of pollen formation and flowering, yields decline. For every 1.0C rise […]

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Beeleigh Abbey: An incredible medieval house that’s barely altered since Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the monasteries

David Robinson looks at Beeleigh Abbey — the Essex home of Catherine and the late Christopher Foyle — an exceptional and little-known survival of the Premonstratensian canons, one of the less-familiar monastic and religious orders of medieval Britain. Photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life. It’s now a full century since Beeleigh Abbey first appeared […]

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Release of rare honeyeaters in NSW

The wild population of one of Australia’s rarest birds is being boosted this week with the release of 50 zoo-bred regent honeyeaters in the Lower Hunter Valley. Click to check the original article.

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