- About
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Research
- Agronomy and farming systems
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Agricultural crop research
-
Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- BioBoost
- Biomass Connect
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Designing Future Wheat
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- Rustwatch
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance Network
- The research team
- UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey
- UK wheat varieties pedigree
- Weed management - IWM Praise
- Crop breeding
- Crop characterisation
- Data sciences
- Genetics and pre-breeding
- Plant biotechnology
- Plant pathology and entomology
- Resources
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Research projects - agriculture
-
Horticultural crop research
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Augmented Berry Vision
- BEESPOKE
- Boosting brassica nutrition in smart growing systems
- CTP for Fruit Crop Research
- Develop user-friendly nutrient demand models
- Egg laying deterrents for spotted wing drosophila
- Enhancing the nutritional quality of tomatoes
- Improving berry harvest forecasts and productivity
- Improving vineyard soil health through groundcover management
- Intelligent growing systems
- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
- RASCAL
- STOP-SPOT
- UV-Robot
- Crop science and production systems
- Genetics, genomics and breeding
- Pest and pathogen ecology
- Field vegetables and salad crops
- Plum Demonstration Centre
- The WET Centre
- Viticulture and Oenology
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Crop Science Centre
- Research Projects
-
Services
- Analytical Services
- Business Development
- Commercial trial services
- Membership
- Plant breeding
- Plant characterisation
- Seed certification
-
Training
-
Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
- Advanced crop management of vegetable brassicas
- Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
- Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
- Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
- Developing a Successful Strategy for Spring Crops
- Disease Management and Control in Cereal Crops
- Incorporating SFI options into your rotation
- Protected Environment Horticulture – Best Practice
- Techniques for better pest management in combinable crops
- Crop inspector and seed certification
- Licensed seed sampling
-
Technical agronomy training
- News & Views
- Events
-
Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
-
Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
- Regen-ag & sustainability
-
Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
- POSTER: Pulse crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Wheat crop identification (2023)
-
Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- Varieties
- About
-
Research
- Agronomy and farming systems
-
Agricultural crop research
-
Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- BioBoost
- Biomass Connect
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Designing Future Wheat
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- Rustwatch
- The Sentinel Crop Disease Surveillance Network
- The research team
- UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey
- UK wheat varieties pedigree
- Weed management - IWM Praise
- Crop breeding
- Crop characterisation
- Data sciences
- Genetics and pre-breeding
- Plant biotechnology
- Plant pathology and entomology
- Resources
-
Research projects - agriculture
-
Horticultural crop research
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Augmented Berry Vision
- BEESPOKE
- Boosting brassica nutrition in smart growing systems
- CTP for Fruit Crop Research
- Develop user-friendly nutrient demand models
- Egg laying deterrents for spotted wing drosophila
- Enhancing the nutritional quality of tomatoes
- Improving berry harvest forecasts and productivity
- Improving vineyard soil health through groundcover management
- Intelligent growing systems
- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
- RASCAL
- STOP-SPOT
- UV-Robot
- Crop science and production systems
- Genetics, genomics and breeding
- Pest and pathogen ecology
- Field vegetables and salad crops
- Plum Demonstration Centre
- The WET Centre
- Viticulture and Oenology
-
Research projects - horticulture
- Crop Science Centre
- Research Projects
-
Services
- Analytical Services
- Business Development
- Commercial trial services
- Membership
- Plant breeding
- Plant characterisation
- Seed certification
-
Training
-
Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
- Advanced crop management of vegetable brassicas
- Advanced nutrient management for combinable crops
- Benefits of cover crops in arable systems
- Best practice agronomy for cereals and oilseed rape
- Developing a Successful Strategy for Spring Crops
- Disease Management and Control in Cereal Crops
- Incorporating SFI options into your rotation
- Protected Environment Horticulture – Best Practice
- Techniques for better pest management in combinable crops
- Crop inspector and seed certification
- Licensed seed sampling
-
Technical agronomy training
- News & Views
- Events
-
Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
-
Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2025)
- Poster: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2023)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2025)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2024/25 review (2025)
- POSTER: UKCPVS disease monitoring and the benefit to UK growers (2025)
- POSTER: Diagnosing and scoring crop disease using AI (2025)
- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
- Regen-ag & sustainability
-
Seed certification
- POSTER: Wheat DUS (2024)
- POSTER: Innovation in variety testing (2024)
- POSTER: AI and molecular markers for soft fruit (2024)
- POSTER: Barley crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage grass crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Herbage legume crop identification (2024)
- POSTER: Minor cereal crop inspecting (2023)
- POSTER: Pulse crop identification (2023)
- POSTER: Wheat crop identification (2023)
-
Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2024)
- POSTER: Novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2024)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2025)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- Varieties
Abdul Samad
Agronomy trials technician - south-east
07850 055766
Research interests
M.Sc. Food Science and Biotechnology (How to control diabetes with Moringa oleifera)
Contact
Niab
Park Farm
Villa Road
Histon
Cambridge
CB24 9NZ, UK
Tel: +44(0)1223 342200
Email: [email protected]
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