The NIAB Ornamentals team will be exhibiting for the third year at IPM 2017 on the ‘Plant Breeders’ Rights in Europe’ stand alongside the European Community Plant Variety Office, the Bundessortenamt (Germany), the Netherlands In
The disease, called ash dieback, was first identified in Poland, where it devastated the native ash tree population. It rapidly spread across northern Europe, and was discovered in the UK in 2012.
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Growers can access the scientific theory behind cover crops, thanks to the results of a comprehensive review funded by AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds.
Scientists from the University of East Anglia, working at the John Innes Centre and with NIAB and the Earlham Institute, have identified the cluster of genes responsible for reproductive traits in the Primula flower, first noted as important by Charles Darwin more than 150 years ago.
NIAB is proposing to improve and modernise its Park Farm site, near Histon on the outskirts of Cambridge, to bring the facilities up-to-date.
Congratulations to our CEO Dr Tina Barsby who has been awarded The 2016 Farmers Club Cup for her significant contribution to British Agriculture. Tina received the award at the Annual Farmers Club House of Lords Lunch, pictured here with NIAB's Trust and Board chairmen Tony Pexton and Jim Godfrey.
NIAB's CEO Dr Tina Barsby and Board Chairman Jim Godfrey welcomed Defra Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food George Eustice MP to the Cambridge site today 
(Monday 21st November 2016).
An industry consortium, led by Berry Gardens Growers Ltd and NIAB EMR, has won a BBSRC collaborative training partnership (CTP) award to provide a £1.9 million postgraduate programme for scientific research on fruit crops.
Another regional office address change for our NIAB TAG trials teams. The south-east regional field trials centre has moved to our NIAB EMR site at East Malling, after many years around Adisham and Wye.
The relocation is a natural move with the facilities and trials land available at NIAB EMR. Trials managers Lorenzo Borleanu and Gloria Endredi are looking forward to welcoming members and customers to the site.
Ian Mackay, head of quantitative genetics at the UK crop research organisation NIAB, has been appointed a Visiting Professor at The University of East Anglia.
