Plant science questions?

Panels

Public access to reliable, comprehensible information about innovation in plant science is limited. People are concerned about scare stories they see and hear as well as being interested in the developments they read about. But if you have a question, who do you ask? By submitting a question – any question – to our plant science panel, a member of the public can get a direct answer from someone working in that field. We don’t edit questions. We don’t pick questions or ignore questions. We just get them answered.

A unique collaboration between Sense about Science, BBSRC, Nature Plants and fourteen leading research institutes and learned societies from across the UK, the panel reached more than two million people in 2015-16 through a combination of live online Q&As and ongoing questions posed by the public via email and social media.

Here are some of our live Q&As:

Genome editing – is it genetic modification? (28 October 2014)

Potatoes: what are the threats they face and what can we do to save our spuds? (22 June 2015)

Reddit AMA sessions (Ask Me Anything)

Our Reddit AMAs reach an even wider audience. Here are some of our recent AMA sessions:

GM wheat: AMA with Professor Christine Raines from the University of Essex and lead researcher on the Rothamsted GM wheat trial. (9 Mar 2017)

Medicinal plants: AMA with Dr Sara O’Connor from the John Innes Centre. (3 Nov 2016)

Sustainable food: AMA with Derek Stuart, professor of plant and food chemistry at James Hutton Institute, Dundee and Heriot Watt University Edinburgh. (25 Aug 2016)

Is plant breeding ‘natural’? AMA with Professor Huw Jones, Professor of translational genomics for plant breeding at IBERS, Aberystwyth University. (4 Feb 2016)

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