An international consortium led in the UK by the James Hutton Institute has published the first high-quality genome sequence of barley in the journal Nature . A ten-nation scientific consortium has reported the first high-quality genome sequence of …
A new interactive farm software service, giving farmers and agronomists the ability to map, manage, store, share and compare farm, crop and research data, will be launched at the Cereals Event, on 14th June, by NIAB. NIAB Digital, powered by technology …
NIAB Digital is a new interactive farm software platform, giving farmers and agronomists the ability to map, manage, store, share and compare farm, crop and research data, launched by NIAB at the 2017 Cereals Event. Powered by technology and data science …
UK crop research organisation NIAB has warned that the EU Commission’s hardline negotiating stance on Brexit is already damaging prospects for UK agri-science, and has called on Ministers to safeguard the UK science base. Speaking in Cambridge today (30 …
The new Cambridge Centre for Crop Science will focus on linking with farming and food industries to translate research into real world impact. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced funding for the creation of a new …
TIGR2ESS, a collaboration between UK and Indian scientists, has been given the green light, with funding from the Global Challenges Research Fund , one of 37 supported projects. This four year research collaboration , involving NIAB (led by Alison Bentley …
Reducing the amount of water needed to grow high quality full flavoured strawberries while at the same time optimising the yield of the crop is now achievable thanks to the work of the new Water Efficient Technologies (WET) Centre, developed at NIAB EMR. …
Up to 31 species of farmland birds were recorded on NIAB’s farm and trials fields on the outskirts of Cambridge during spring 2017. Breeding species included ‘red-listed’ Grey Partridge, Yellow Wagtail, Linnet, Yellowhammer and Skylark. The Meadow Pipit …
UK growers would benefit from using non-inversion tillage systems for cereal production according to results of soil and cultivation research carried out by NIAB TAG, the James Hutton Institute (JHI) and the University of Aberdeen. The AHDB-funded …
Unifying the approaches to plant and animal breeding through the use of genomic selection is crucial to achieving global food security, according to a team of world leading scientists. In a paper published this week in the international journal Nature …
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