Cambridge plant scientist Alison Bentley has won the British Society for Plant Pathology’s ‘2009 best student paper’ award for her research on crown rot in wheat, a major disease in the Australian grain belt. A post-doctoral researcher in wheat …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) and The Arable Group (TAG) have joined forces to create a national, independent crop research and information centre. The integrated group brings together the resources needed to support the development …
UK crop researchers have significantly increased the yields of a leading anti-malaria remedy that could eventually benefit malaria sufferers worldwide. The plant extract artemisinin comes from the wormwood plant Artemisia annua. It offers the only …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany has awarded its Variety Cup to the onion variety Vision bred by Syngenta Seeds. NIAB chief executive Dr Tina Barsby presented the award to Syngenta’s onion and leek product specialist Nigel Kingston and …
The Brazilian Government has used experts from the UK’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) to train the country’s seed testing and sampling officials to recognised international standards. Jane Taylor, chief officer at the Official Seed …
The big freeze is just what was needed to see off the yellow rust reported as developing at several sites pre-Christmas. If not completely killed it will hopefully have been suppressed sufficiently to not bother us again for a while. Excessive winter …
The much-debated topic of ‘AN v Urea’ will not go away. TAG has recently updated the earlier presentation of our trial data in the context of other industry views. The presentation is available in Members’ Technical Information, …
The presentations for the Final Workshop of the BREAM (Bystander and Resident Exposure Assessment Model) project held at Robinson College in Cambridge on Thursday 7th January are now available. Please click on the following links to view the …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has welcomed the Government’s Food 2030 strategy, launched by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, as a clear signal that the Government recognises the strategic …
The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) has opened a state-of-the-art glasshouse facility at its Park Farm site near Histon in Cambridge. The development, which incorporates the latest greenhouse technology and biomass heating, replaces older …
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