It's to help make commercially valuable crops more resilient to climate change.
Professor Julian Moger will work with a team of experts developing new varieties of the plant species which includes cabbages, reducing their vulnerability to adverse temperatures.
His role involves using cutting-edge techniques he's developed to monitor the uptake of important growth chemicals in the seeds.
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