Research into the relationship between bacterial diseases and host plants could lead to improvements in breeding for disease resistance in horticultural crops says research organisation NIAB EMR. Bacterial canker is a disease caused by Pseudomonas …
NIAB is delighted to be part of a new initiative for Soil Health, launched today (13 June) at the Cereals Event in Cambridgeshire. NIAB's Head of Farming Systems, Dr Elizabeth Stockdale is pleased to be playing a key role in developing the new initiative …
UK scientists are a step closer to understanding the mechanisms of natural fungal infections that cause the ash dieback disease affecting European Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) trees across the UK and continental Europe. The research, funded by BBSRC, has …
Seven new first-choice varieties have been added to the British Society of Plant Breeder’s 2019 Forage Maize Descriptive Lists (DL), alongside one new second-choice variety. The varieties Cito KWS and Avitus KWS from KWS, LG31218 and Pinnacle from …
With an expansion of his current role Mark Leaman, who is currently Head of Farms and Estates at NIAB, has taken over responsibility for operations from Chief Operating Officer David Neill. As Director of Resource Management, Mark will be responsible for …
Malling Sunburst, NIAB EMR’s new sweet-tasting apple variety, pink-fleshed through to the core, will be exclusively available in Waitrose later this month, following harvest of the only currently commercial orchard of the variety at East Malling. The …
Water and fertiliser use in horticulture could be reduced, without lowering yields, by using biostimulants such as seaweed extract and beneficial microbes, says UK research organisation NIAB EMR. NIAB EMR, and its research partner Dove Associates, have …
New breeding technologies such as gene editing genuinely have the potential to underpin the next agricultural revolution. Quicker, more accurate selection of desired genetic traits in plant breeding offers the promise of a step-change increase in …
NIAB CEO Dr Tina Barsby has been confirmed as a board member of the newly constituted Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority. Read the press release on the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined …
The British Crop Production Council, BCPC, will be joining NIAB in a move that will strengthen their delivery of independent information, products and opinion. Both organisations have the latest agricultural science at their core, to boost efficient, …
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