{"id":573,"date":"2021-08-25T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/?p=573"},"modified":"2021-10-06T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:01:53","slug":"speeding-up-miscanthus-breeding-to-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/2021\/08\/25\/speeding-up-miscanthus-breeding-to-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding up Miscanthus breeding to combat climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/files\/2021\/10\/Miscanthus-and-flux-tower-2web-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574\" \/><figcaption>Miscanthus growing in one of the fields at Aberystwyth University&#8217;s Institute of Biological, Environmental &amp; Rural Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aberystwyth University scientists will investigate adopting a technique to speed up Miscanthus breeding in an effort to meet climate change targets as part of a \u00a34 million UK government package to boost biomass production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to investment from the UK Government\u2019s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, researchers will make the case for integrating a technique called genomic selection into the Miscanthus breeding programme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/en\/news\/archive\/2021\/08\/title-247088-en.html\">Read article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aberystwyth University scientists will investigate adopting a technique to speed up Miscanthus breeding in an effort to meet climate change targets as part of a \u00a34 million UK government package to boost biomass production. Thanks to investment from the UK Government\u2019s Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, researchers will make the case for integrating a technique called&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/2021\/08\/25\/speeding-up-miscanthus-breeding-to-combat-climate-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speeding up Miscanthus breeding to combat climate change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/research-festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}