Dr Tina Barsby, recently appointed chief executive of Cambridge-based National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB), has welcomed calls at the Conservative Party Conference from NFU President Peter Kendall for a fundamental shift in UK spending on …
The challenge for 21st century agriculture is to double food production over the next 40 years, on a finite amount of land and using increasingly scarce and costly resources. Advances in plant breeding will be the single biggest factor in meeting this …
Hundreds of visitors to Ely Cathedral were able to learn first hand how innovative scientists at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany are researching new crops. They were invited by the eastern region’s NFU to participate in the cathedral’s …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) is to repeat its two-week intensive training course in ‘Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding’, after the first session held earlier this year was heavily over-subscribed. Targeted at both existing …
David Baulcombe, Royal Society Research Professor and Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge, has joined the Board of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB). An award-winning scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor …
When Dr Tina Barsby was appointed Chief Executive of NIAB in September 2008, she became the first female Chief Executive in the Institute’s 90-year history. A plant geneticist with extensive experience in plant biotechnology and applied plant science, …
Latest results from NIAB’s Labtest service suggest that while Potato Leaf Roll Virus (PLRV) is largely absent this year, a quarter of farm-saved seed potatoes destined for the 2009 crop have been infected at some level with Potato Virus Y (PVY), one of …
Budding scientists, young and old, are invited to become a pathologist for the day as part of National Science Week – not with humans or animals, but with agricultural crops. “We want to show the general public that plants get fungal infections and …
Dr Tina Barsby, chief executive of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge, has welcomed the call from Professor John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser, for significant investment in scientific research to meet the …
NIAB has announced the appointment to the NIAB Trust of Cambridgeshire-based grower John Shropshire. Mr Shropshire heads up the family farming company G’s Marketing Limited, based at Barway, near Ely, which supplies salad crops and field vegetables from …
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