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18 | January | 2023 Producció Local: New IRTA podcast on food, science and sustainability

Discover the secrets of plant domestication and the importance of local varieties in the first episode of Producció Local
25 | November | 2022 L. Maria Lois receives the 2022 Plaque of Honour from the Spanish Association of Scientists

The award honours the CRAG director for her research, dedication to tech transfer and management activity
23 | November | 2022 CRAG opens its doors to industry to promote technology transfer

85 people attended the CRAG-Companies Meeting: Biotechnology at the service of agriculture
22 | November | 2022 CRAG gets students involved in plant research during Science Week

Middle school students have worked as plant biologists in the Mutant Plants workshop offered by CRAG
Dolors Ludevid in her lab at CRAG in 2015 (picture by Josep Casacuberta). 17 | November | 2022 "Lola" Ludevid, CRAG researcher for more than 13 years, passes away

Researcher at CRAG since its creation until 2016 when she retired, she was highly appreciated by all her colleagues
10 | November | 2022 CRAG and IRTA expand their international partnership with Front Range Biosciences to address the growing threat of Hop Latent Viroid disease in cannabis

Spanish Agency of Medicine and Medical Devices (AEMPS) has just granted IRTA and CRAG the permit to work with medical cannabis for the third year in a row
25 | October | 2022 Ana I. Caño-Delgado is awarded a PRODUCTE grant to advance knowledge of agriculture adapted to high temperatures

In addition, Juan José López-Moya will participate as a partner in another awarded PRODUCTE grant to develop a natural pesticide against invasive plants pests
Crystal structure of MmgE that has been used to choose the target residues for mutagenesis. 06 | October | 2022 Improved itaconic acid production by using synthetic biology

Details of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (left), its flower (center) and a pistil (right) (Credit: CRAG) 16 | September | 2022 The clock of the female organ in plants is self-sufficient

CRAG researchers demonstrate that the pistils (female reproductive organs) maintain circadian rhythms autonomously and independently from the rest of the plant
07 | September | 2022 La FECYT concedeix al CRAG un ajut per al foment de la cultura científica [CAT] / La FECYT concede al CRAG una ayuda para el fomento de la cultura científica [ESP]

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