Staff

Covering Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire

Sally is a technical specialist for DUS testing of cereal crops at NIAB. With over 35 years experience, Sally is currently responsible for character evaluation and uniformity assessments on new candidate varieties entered for National Listing and Plant Breeder's Rights. Sally is a senior lecturer on NIAB’s cereal crop inspector courses and has worked in seed certification and on a wide range of crops including cereals, oilseeds, herbage and pulses.

Peter is based at Cambridge and his main role is the delivery of Plant Breeder’s Rights trials on a range on Ornamental crops including Chrysanthemums, herbaceous perennials and woody plants. Peter has 15 years experience in PBR trials as well as experience in organising and con ducting other commercial trials, and has a background in agriculture and horticulture.

Robert works as part of the phenotyping group within the Genetics and Pre-breeding department at NIAB. Robert obtained a PhD. in molecular biology and phenotyping from the University of Nottingham and Rothamsted Research. Following his PhD Robert worked for a year as part of Malcolm Hawkesford’s group at Rothamsted focusing on remote sensing methods to analyse grain quality and the nitrogen content of milled wheat grain and straw.