ISSUED BY THE JOHN INNES CENTRE The scientists who recently identified dramatic changes in yellow rust populations affecting wheat in the UK , have just been awarded £1.2 million to develop a new, quicker, cheaper version of their field–based diagnostic …
Results from NIAB TAG’s STAR project, now in its tenth year, have highlighted changes in crop performance between differing rotation and cultivation approaches in the study. The STAR Project , based near Otley in Suffolk on a heavy soil type, compares …
NIAB has awarded its Cereals Cup to the winter wheat variety Skyfall from RAGT and its Variety Cup to the perennial ryegrass Abergreen from IBERS and Germinal. NIAB chief executive Dr Tina Barsby presented the awards to RAGT’s UK senior wheat breeder …
The five-day course will include: A day on Fusarium ear blight of winter wheat, with an inoculated trial showing symptoms caused by the different pathogens, cultivar evaluation, pathogen diagnostics. A day on regulations for mycotoxins, sampling and rapid …
Cambridge’s reputation of providing world-class research and development has been strengthened, as two businesses are awarded funding of £80,318 via The Eastern Agri-Tech Growth Initiative. Thanks to the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise …
Welcome to SIPScene - the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform's, otherwise known as SIP, first newsletter - explaining who and what SIP is and how it will benefit UK farmers. Funded by Defra, NIAB is the lead organisation for SIP's Project 1. …
NIAB is a leading plant science institute, covering plant breeding and crop agronomy, with customers and clients from across the UK agricultural industry. The NIAB Director's Day is an invite only event, for CEOs, MDs and senior staff from other industry …
UK crop research organisation NIAB has significantly strengthened its capabilities in data science with the appointment of Professor Mario Caccamo, currently director of The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), to lead the Cambridge-based institute’s expanding …
NIAB and the University of Sheffield have been awarded BBSRC and NERC funding to improve drought and pathogen resistance in wheat by reducing stomatal density. The NIAB research will be led by Dr Jane Thomas and is one of six projects under the £4.7 …
Lucy Frazer, MP for south east Cambridgeshire, visited The National Institute of Agricultural Botany’s (NIAB) Park Farm research site near Histon on Wednesday, for a tour of the crop research centre’s facilities and to hear the plans for future expansion. …
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