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Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- 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
- Crop Science Centre
- Research Projects
- Research Publications
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Services
- Analytical Services
- Commercial trial services
- Membership
- Plant breeding
- Plant characterisation
- Seed certification
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Training
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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
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Knowledge Hub
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Alternative and break crops
- POSTER: Domestic production of plant-based protein (2026)
- POSTER: Understanding the lifecycle of cabbage stem flea beetle (2026)
- POSTER: Domestic chickpea production (2025)
- POSTER: Prospects for domestic plant-based protein (2025)
- POSTER: Alternative protein crops & sources (2022)
- POSTER: Undersowing forage maize (2025)
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Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2026)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2026)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2026)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2026)
- Poster: Implementing IPM (2026)
- Poster: Testing the performance of biofungicides in winter wheat
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2025 review (2026)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2026)
- 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: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
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Regen-ag & sustainability
- Poster: CHCx3 - herbal leys for carbon capture (2026)
- Poster: CHCx3 - growing flax for carbon capture (2026)
- Poster: CHCx3 - growing fibre crops (2026)
- Poster: Old crops feeding the bioeconomy (2026)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - maximising carbon storage from cover crops (2026)
- POSTER: Reducing GHG emissions from wheat production (2026)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - increasing carbon capture through cropping (2026)
- Poster: Finding a balance for productive lowland peat systems (2026)
- POSTER: Crops for the future (2024)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - increasing carbon capture in grasslands (2024)
- POSTER: More wheat/ha tackles climate change (2024)
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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)
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Soils and farming systems
- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings (2026)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management (2026)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2026)
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2026)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2026)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2026)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Varieties
-
Weed management
- Poster: Reducing weed seedbanks for long-term weed control (2026)
- Poster: The growing threat of brome (2026)
- Poster: The growing threat of ryegrass (2026)
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2026)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2026)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2026)
- POSTER: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- Video: Inter-row cultivations for black-grass control (2020)
- ADOPT
-
Alternative and break crops
- About
-
Research
- Agronomy and farming systems
-
Agricultural crop research
-
Research projects - agriculture
- About SASSA-SAI
- CTP for Sustainable Agricultural Innovation
- Climate Ready Beans - workshop presentations (March 2022)
- Crop diversity HPC cluster
- Final project workshop
- Get involved
- List of materials
- News and updates
- Partners
- 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
- Crop Science Centre
- Research Projects
- Research Publications
-
Services
- Analytical Services
- 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
- POSTER: Domestic production of plant-based protein (2026)
- POSTER: Understanding the lifecycle of cabbage stem flea beetle (2026)
- POSTER: Domestic chickpea production (2025)
- POSTER: Prospects for domestic plant-based protein (2025)
- POSTER: Alternative protein crops & sources (2022)
- POSTER: Undersowing forage maize (2025)
-
Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2026)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
- POSTER: Wheat yield stability (2024)
- PRESENTATION: Plant breeding for regen ag
- POSTER: Improving phenotyping in crop research (2022)
- POSTER: wild wheat fragment lines (2022)
- Poster: Traits for future cereal crops (2022)
- Poster: Designing Future Wheat (2020)
- Crop nutrition
-
Crop protection
- POSTER: Disease control in barley (2026)
- POSTER: Disease control in winter wheat (2026)
- POSTER: Fungicide resistance research (2026)
- Poster: Implementing IPM (2026)
- Poster: Testing the performance of biofungicides in winter wheat
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat rusts - 2025 review (2026)
- POSTER: UKCPVS winter wheat yellow rust in spring 2025 (2026)
- 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: Detecting air-borne pathogens (2024)
- POSTER: Oilseed rape diseases (2024)
- POSTER: Improving chocolate spot resistance (2022)
- Poster: Pathogen diagnostics (2022)
- Fruit
-
Regen-ag & sustainability
- Poster: CHCx3 - herbal leys for carbon capture (2026)
- Poster: CHCx3 - growing flax for carbon capture (2026)
- Poster: CHCx3 - growing fibre crops (2026)
- Poster: Old crops feeding the bioeconomy (2026)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - maximising carbon storage from cover crops (2026)
- POSTER: Reducing GHG emissions from wheat production (2026)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - increasing carbon capture through cropping (2026)
- Poster: Finding a balance for productive lowland peat systems (2026)
- POSTER: Crops for the future (2024)
- POSTER: CHCx3 - increasing carbon capture in grasslands (2024)
- POSTER: More wheat/ha tackles climate change (2024)
-
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: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings (2026)
- POSTER: Saxmundham - 125 years of phosphorus management (2026)
- POSTER: Soil structure and organic matter (2026)
- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2026)
- POSTER: Morley long term experiments (2026)
- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2026)
- Poster: Soil invertebrates within arable rotations (2024)
- POSTER: The impact of rotations & cultivations (2024)
- POSTER: Soil & agronomic monitoring study (2024)
- POSTER: Impact of prolonged rainfall on soil structure (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - step by step (2024)
- POSTER: Checking soil health - across space and time (2024)
- POSTERS: Changing soil management practices (2022)
- Poster: Monitoring natural enemies & pollinators (2021)
- Video: New Farming Systems project (2021)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
- VIDEO: Soil health assessment (2021)
- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
- Varieties
-
Weed management
- Poster: Reducing weed seedbanks for long-term weed control (2026)
- Poster: The growing threat of brome (2026)
- Poster: The growing threat of ryegrass (2026)
- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2026)
- POSTER: Mode of action (2026)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2026)
- POSTER: Weed seed predation in regen-ag (2024)
- POSTER: Inter-row cultivation for black-grass control (2022)
- Poster: Management of Italian ryegrass (2021)
- Video: Inter-row cultivations for black-grass control (2020)
- ADOPT
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Alternative and break crops
John Latham
NIAB Trust
Chair of the NIAB Trust
John farms in Cambridgeshire and is a former chair of Camgrain. He joined the NIAB Trust in January 2024 and was appointed Chair in June 2026.
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Tel: +44(0)1223 342200
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