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22nd March 2013 New Delhi, India

Senior Science and Innovation Adviser

Joining hands in conserving earth’s plant riches

Extinction is forever – something that happens to several plant species each year. They disappear without any chance of being replaced, many before their potential to help us has been fully assessed. The urgency of plant conservation was brought home to me after my interactions with Hugh Pritchard, who heads the Research, Seed Conservation and Senior Science Group in Royal Botanic […]

6th June 2012 New Delhi, India

by Swati Saxena

Senior Science and Innovation Adviser

A day spent in Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Bareilly

In February this year, I travelled to Bareilly, located in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), along with a delegation of UK experts in livestock research to visit IVRI. The visit was part of a joint venture between the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) to initiate […]