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Please help British Council with an important survey

All participants will be entered into a prize draw and for the winner British Council will donate £250 to a charity of his/ her choice.
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Speeding up plant breeding of the world's most important medicinal crop

The most effective drugs for treating malaria are based on extracts from the medicinal herb called Artemisia annua. The new genetic map obtained by plant scientists at the University of York, UK, might be used to accelerate plant breeding of Artemisia and rapidly develop the species into a high-yielding crop. Research have been published in the journal Science.
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