NIAB - National Institute of Agricultural Botany

The need for innovation in plant breeding and agronomy has never been greater. With a growing global population agricultural science and technology has a vital role to play in boosting productivity, conserving resources and coping with climate change. A unique national resource, NIAB is well placed to contribute solutions to these challenges. Learn more about NIAB

@NIABTAG: RT @RhondaT40: @wheat_daddy talking about the future & challenges in farming @NIABTAG Glocs event http://t.co/HWzkD2VvPF
@NIABTAG: Orson's Oracle asks what is a legitimate environmental target if arable weeds are a product of modern farming http://t.co/5hso31ZtGk
@NIABTAG: Our Regional Agronomists are busy with NIAB TAG Network winter conferences for the West and Yorkshire regions today
@NIABTAG: Remember to book your NIAB National Agronomy Training. Courses in Jan/Feb/Mar with discounts 4 booking be4 31/12/13 http://t.co/4RPl8HezbD
@NIABTAG: NIAB has a vacancy for a soils and farming systems field technician based at NIAB Morley. For more info go to http://t.co/ABdGEfMYT5
@NIABTAG: New aerial shots arrivied of NIAB's MacLeod Complex glasshouses & @InnovationFarm1's Sophi Taylor Building http://t.co/t0mBmOv3UD
@NIABTAG: Thanx 4 the feedback RT @nick_wall45: Great points 4 discussion @NIABTAG winter Conf yesterday on Blackgrass OSR canopy & future fungicides
@NIABTAG: Thanx for the feedback RT @willwalters88: Had a very informative day at Salisbury Race Course with @NIABTAG and @IPFUK
@NIABTAG: RT @rtkfarmer5: @NIABTAG Cambridge Haldrup setting up the combine 4 grain maize with a conv header. Worked very well. http://t.co/o6pZ3uumNy
@NIABTAG: RT @Forestlens: Simon Griffiths of Vaderstad on platform at @NIABTAG's Wessex Conference today. http://t.co/UXHLT9wsao
@NIABTAG: #niab & @InnovationFarm1 Lydia Smith at @Farm_Innovation t'row on KE & help with diversification for SMEs & #farmbiz http://t.co/WW7goiufU6
@NIABTAG: Orson's Oracle: the maths behind #blackgrass seed survival http://t.co/4irIrx2e7d
@NIABTAG: Network Agronomy Update 7 out now; yellow rust reports in Sept sown susceptible wwt. Wait 4 frost or if foci large enough treat
@NIABTAG: A reminder to book your place at the 2013 CUPGRA Potato Conference on 17/18 Dec in Cambridge http://t.co/SBnBPVqkd0

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Orson's Oracle

Jim Orson

What is a legitimate environmental target?
05/12/2013 by Jim Orson

" Professor Seralini is not a household name but he has been in the limelight in the ‘GMO world’ for a few years. He is Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Caen in France and has been known to be against genetic modification. I’m not sure... "