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Research projects - agriculture
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Horticultural crop research
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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
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- Knowledge transfer for sustainable water use
- POME: Precision Orchard Management for Environment
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Research projects - horticulture
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Services
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Training
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Technical agronomy training
- Advanced crop management of bulb onions
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- 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
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Technical agronomy training
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Knowledge Hub
- Alternative and break crops
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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
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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
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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: 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
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