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FacebookRothamsted Research is granted permission by Defra to plant autumn-sown wheat as part of its GM field trial
The extension of the current trial will allow scientists to also study the effects of autumn aphid infestations on their experimental 'aphid repelling' wheat.
Rothamsted Research has been granted permission by Defra to extend its current GM wheat field trial to include additional autumn-sown cadenza wheat. This will give additional data under a more diverse range of environmental conditions…
BBSRC, Rothamsted Research and John Innes join forces at Cereals 2013
This year Rothamsted Research, John Innes Centre and BBSRC are demonstrating the latest scientific developments to increase UK farming productivity at Cereals 2013, focussing on disease resistance, crop adaptation to climate change, managing soils and biodiversity. The exhibition highlights diseases and disease resistance in barley, wheat and oilseed rape, focussing on current problems and future threats. The exhibition includes plots of cereals and highlights insecticide resistance and fungicide resistance work…
Major funding for research into predicting the health and welfare of dairy cows
Researchers from the Moredun Research Institute and Scotland’s Rural College have received a major funding award to develop a project that could ultimately lead to an early warning system for poor health and welfare in dairy cattle. Initial work by the team has found that easily recordable immune traits could be used to predict an individual farm animal’s susceptibility, and recovery from, a range of health conditions. Being able to use immune traits to identify health and welfare problems - such as lameness - could be of huge benefit to the industry…
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