A group of leading politicians, including a Shadow Minister, a city MP, Euro-MP and city Mayor, today vowed to support the national Year of Food and Farming campaign after working alongside children and sowing vegetable seeds in Cambridge. The National …
NIAB has been helping to inspire the next generation of young scientists. In the last month, three scientists visited schools in the region in support of the national campaign for the Year of Food and Farming. One of them, Dr Lydia Smith, has also visited …
Cereal trials are generally in good condition with little disease present at all centres. Growth stage varies from a very forward 32 in Hereford from a September sown crop to early tillering from a late sown trial in Kent. Winter barleys and oats are …
NIAB scientists have recently published details of how they have validated a new method of mapping genes which utilises the natural genotypic variation in a large variety collection rather than in crosses between contrasting parents. A paper in the …
A high ranking delegation of plant geneticists from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany are next week attending an international conference on barley and sharing findings from their innovative research. Five scientists will be going to the 10th …
Huw Jones of NIAB, together with Professor Glynis Jones of the University of Sheffield, were interviewed as part of Radio 4's Material World which will be broadcast on Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 4.30pm. The topic of the interview was ‘Cereal …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany has appointed three new research scientists to work on cutting edge projects which could help farmers produce more sustainable crops at a time when feeding the world’s population has become increasingly vital. …
Nottingham students visited NIAB to learn from some of the organisation's leading scientists who are working on innovative, cutting edge projects. The 20 students from Nottingham University's Sutton Bonington Campus are taking Masters Degrees in Crop …
A unique NIAB training course on quantitative genetics and statistics attracted participants from as far a field as Switzerland, Madeira and Latvia. The two week postgraduate level course, entitled “Quantitative Methods in Plant Breeding”, rapidly filled …
NIAB hosted an HGCA Symposium for PhD students throughout the UK who were able to showcase their agricultural research projects. HGCA, which promotes improvements in the production of UK cereals and oilseeds, is actively involved in raising the profile of …
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