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Seaweed Exhibition – On the Seashore – Art Meets Science

Following the success of the 2024 collaboration between IBERS and Aberystwyth Printmakers featuring artwork printed on Miscanthus paper, we’re excited to announce our next creative partnership!

This year, the spotlight turns to Seaweed.

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IBERS Researcher Selected for Prestigious RWAS Rural Leadership Programme

We are delighted to announce that Iolo Davies, research manager at IBERS’ Pwllpeiran Upland Research Centre, has been selected as one of the participants in the 2025–26 Royal Welsh Agricultural Society (RWAS) Rural Leadership Programme.

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Scientists to tackle potato blight disease threat – new research

Scientists will work on new ways to tackle a disease that causes significant crop losses worldwide, including blight in potatoes, thanks to a new research grant.

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IBERS Researchers Help Uncover How a Bacterial Molecule Reprograms Plant Defences

Scientists at IBERS at Aberystwyth University have contributed to a major international research breakthrough, uncovering how a plant-infecting bacterium uses a previously unknown molecule to subvert plant defences. The findings were published in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

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