Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Understanding breeding history of Lychee opens opportunities for better harvests

Assistant Professor Jarkko Salojärvi from NTU SBS, together with a team of Chinese and American researchers made novel insights into the domestication history of lychee and identified the underlying genetics of this important tropical fruit that encode important agricultural traits. The study made by the team was published in Nature Genetics in January 2022, with their significant discoveries on Lychee featured on the cover of the Vol. 54 Issue 1 of Nature Genetics.

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Biological Sciences & Structural Biology: Meet Damien from NTU SBS

Biological Sciences & Structural Biology: Meet Damien from NTU SBS

As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Damien, currently enrolled in the Biological Sciences with Second Major in Biomedical Structural Biology programme.

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Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness: Meet Wei Quan from NTU SBS

Biomedical Sciences & BioBusiness: Meet Wei Quan from NTU SBS

As part of the Meet Our Students series, we connected with undergraduates from the school’s seven different programmes to learn about their motivations behind joining the programme, their experiences here at NTU SBS and more. Here’s Wei Quan, currently pursuing the double major in Biomedical Sciences and BioBusiness programme.

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