UK crop research organisation NIAB has warned that the EU Commission’s hardline negotiating stance on Brexit is already damaging prospects for UK agri-science, and has called on Ministers to safeguard the UK science base.
A new interactive farm software service, giving farmers and agronomists the ability to map, manage, store, share and compare farm, crop and research data, will be launched at the Cereals Event, on 14th June, by NIAB.
An international consortium led in the UK by the James Hutton Institute has published the first high-quality genome sequence of barley in the journal Nature.
The UKCPVS team at NIAB is looking for plant samples showing yellow rust in winter wheat varieties:
We rely on samples sent in by growers, agronomists, plant breeders and official trials operators, so we can check for new variations of these key wheat and barley diseases.
The world’s leading plant scientists are set to gather for the Fourth International Horticulture Research Conference, taking place at NIAB EMR in East Malling, Kent, from 16th to 20th July 2017.
The Conference will bring together international researchers conducting fundamental research on horticultural crops, to showcase the latest research findings and to network with colleagues from around the world.
A national research project that actively seeks out and advises on changes in cereal disease populations across the UK is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Dr Robert Jackson, 30, a researcher at NIAB, hailing from Lincolnshire, is attending Parliament to present his bioscience research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of STEM for BRITAIN on Monday 13 March.
Four agriculture students from Cornwall’s Duchy College are the winners of the NIAB Agronomy Cup and the title ‘the best student wheat growers in the country’.
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Key changes to pathogen populations over the past 50 years will be outlined at this year’s UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) stakeholder event.
Cereal pathogen populations have been monitored in the UK since 1967 and, to celebrate this golden anniversary, UKCPVS project manager and NIAB pathologist Dr Sarah Holdgate will reflect on the major population changes since recording began and the implications these changes had on plant breeding.
