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Research update - February 2022 Information and images from the Rhizoctonia root rot disease screening programme Research update - November 2020 Browse our selection of images of our research or follow the slideshow below The CIAT team in Tenerife, …

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Hybrid beans from Colombia to Cambridge

NIAB is evaluating a set of Central and South American beans for traits of interest to breeders and farmers. The beans are all hybrids involving common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), and/or its sister species, which have arisen naturally where the beans are …

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Weed management - IWMPRAISE

The project consortium consisted of 37 partners from eight different European countries and included 11 leading universities and research institutes within the area of weed management, 14 SMEs and industrial partners, and 12 advisory services and end user …

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Our response to Covid-19

We at NIAB understand that we play an important role in supporting agricultural businesses and food production, both in 2020 and in the future, and we would like to update you on our response to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) situation. Having celebrated our …

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Orson's Oracle: the story of a wheat grain

This is because nearly every year the amount of wheat produced on a hectare of land in the UK ranks in the top four countries in the world. This means that the UK really does play its role in providing global food security with a crop that contributes …

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Barn4 - agritech incubator

Barn4, the Niab agritech incubator, is a facility for start-up agritech businesses that opened in spring 2021. Funded by The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, the facilities at our Cambridge site offers start-ups and SMEs: office and …

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Meeting of Minds

SMEs benefit through connectivity and a fresh perspective from Niab staff with meetings often leading to some form of commercial association. For example, collaboration might equal work under joint grant-funded projects or use of specialist equipment and …

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