Key gene find could enable development of disease-resistant crops
Discovery of a gene that helps plants control their response to disease could aid efforts…
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BCPC partners with NIAB to boost provision of independent agri-science information
The British Crop Production Council, BCPC, will be joining NIAB, in a move that will…
£1M John Oldcare Foundation award set to fund range of student scholarships
Harper Adams University is delighted to have been awarded £1million by the John Oldacre Foundation…
New app that uses drone to make walking fields a thing of the past.
DroneAG has launched a first-of-its-kind app that scouts fields for you, in less time and…
New chemistries deliver industry’s first major innovation in decades
For the first time in more than 50 years, a new type of environmentally friendly,…
Managed lower inputs at Strategic Farm East
With ever-increasing pressure for farmers to find ways to cut costs, AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds…
Policy-makers cannot afford to ignore soil sustainability
Soils play a key role in climate regulation, nutritious diets, agricultural livelihoods, and biodiversity. But soils have dropped…
Call for clarity after EU ruling on gene-edited crops
Leading scientific institutions including the John Innes Centre are today calling for the Government to…
Nitrogen fixation engineering in cereal crops moves a step closer
A new way of engineering nitrogen fixation has been discovered by a UK-China research team,…
Epigenome of bread wheat mapped to piece together its genetic heritage
Published in Genome Research, based on a novel method developed by Earlham Institute, UK, an international…