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.
Headline news that UK supermarkets are rationing sales of fresh produce after bad weather hit supplies from southern Europe highlights the critical role of applied horticulture research focused on improving home-grown production, according to Professor Mario Caccamo, the newly appointed MD of Kent-based NIAB EMR.
The 100-year-old NIAB crest is guaranteed pride of place in the crop research organisation’s new Cambridge
headquarters, due to open in 2019, thanks to a donation from a royal charitable fund.
UK crop research organisation NIAB has appointed Professor Mario Caccamo as Managing Director of NIAB EMR, its Kent-based horticultural and environmental research and development division.
