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Prof. John Halliwell, chemist at the University of Manchester, devotes an article to Roeland Boer & Miquel Coll's paper published in Cell on plant development. The breakthrough was possible by using the Synchrotron Alba beam light facility and was a collaboration with Prof. Dolf Weijers at the University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands.
Read the article here: Alba News (PDF)
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