Staff

Research interests 

NIAB regional and on-farm agronomist in the south-east, Keith Truett is a former farm manager with a wide experience of different soil types, crops, large estates and small farm operations, cultivations, operational detail and organisational logistics, in various parts of the country. He is most at home as part of a team helping to contribute towards the future of the countryside and the prosperity of farmers.

Syed has worked in the UK agri-industry for the past ten years as an agronomist and crop researcher.

Research interests

Research interests

In my PhD, I have worked extensively on root-nodule symbiosis in peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and model legume Medicago truncatula to understand the crosstalk between phytohormonal pathway and symbiosis pathway in the development of nodule meristem through molecular biology and comparative transcriptomics.