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Crop genetics
- POSTER: Diversity enriched wheat (2025)
- POSTER: Genetics of wheat flag leaf size (2024)
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- POSTER: Understanding the hierarchy of black-grass control (2025)
- POSTER: Emerging weed threats (2025)
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- POSTER: Finding new sources of Septoria resistance (2024)
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- VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
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- POSTER: Saxmundham - modern P management learnings
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- Poster: Soil phosphorus - availability, uptake and management (2025)
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- POSTER: Exploiting novel wheat genotypes for regen-ag (2025)
- Video: Saxmundham Experimental Site (2021)
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Crop quality and traceability
Niab Analytical Services has a unique capability of scale, scope and staff experience in crop quality testing, covering cereals, herbage, sugar beet, oilseeds, vegetables and potatoes. These services are increasingly valued by breeders, processors and …
Seed quality tests
Common issues with seed quality include: Wheat tends to show good germination. Seedling diseases can affect germination test performance, especially in wet years. Barley seed tends to show good germination. Seedling diseases can affect germination test …
Pathogen diagnostics
Seed-borne pathogens represent a major threat to crop establishment and yield. Traditionally such diseases have been controlled through the use of a range of effective chemical applications. However the increasing drive towards sustainable agriculture …
Dr Tally Wright
Tally is a Research Group Leader from a Cambridgeshire farming background with diverse experience in crop quantitative genetics and physiology. With many years of scientific research experience at Niab, Tally now leads a research group focused on crop …
NIAB MAGIC population resources
Contact: James Cockram The NIAB Multi-parent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross wheat populations, or MAGIC, were created using BBSRC funding. Subsequent genotyping and phenotyping have been funded directly by NIAB. This site contains information and files …
Research projects
Niab works with a network of scientific partnerships and collaborations with farmers and growers as well as leading commercial and research organisations in the UK and Europe. Explore our current, and past, research projects in agronomy and farming …
Climate change - BCPC Technical Seminar 2020
BCPC Seminar 2020 Session 1: Introduction by Stephen Howe, BCPC Chairman, and Parliamentary Undersecretary of State at DEFRA, Rebecca Pow, MP [VIDEO::https://youtu.be/HJna16kBdtA] Session 2: Reaching net zero agricultural emissions by 2040 - 10 years …
VIDEO: Great Soils; soil sampling guidelines (2020)
NIAB's Dr Elizabeth Stockdale provides a walk-through reminder of the on-farm sampling technique for the Soil Health Scorecard. This approach is currently under development within the AHDB-BBRO funded Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership (2017-2021). …
NEWS: Launch of the International Wheat Yield Partnership European Winter Wheat Hub
Building on a wealth of existing investment in UK wheat R&D, including the UK Research and Innovation BBSRC-funded Designing Future Wheat programme (DFW), the newly formed IWYP – European Winter Wheat Hub will accelerate research discoveries from the UK …
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