Background: Global warming is undeniably one of the biggest threats that can affect our ability to produce food. Currently it is estimated that for each 1ËšC temperature elevation results in 5% yield lost to farmers. In general, temperatur...
Background: Domestic crop production is increasingly reliant on reducing fertiliser and agrochemical inputs while maintaining high yields, essential for food security in the UK. With the rising demand for berries, particularly for their hea...
Gastro-intestinal nematode (GIN) infections have serious negative consequences on the health and welfare of livestock worldwide and threaten the economic viability of livestock production. Infection also increases peak methane yield in para...
Background: Potato is a key future food security crop, representing £4.3 billion to the UK economy. Typically, it takes ~10-13 years to breed a successful cultivar, requiring many rounds of intensive selection and field evaluation. Despite ...
Background: Three key transmission routes of AMR in the agricultural environment are faecally-derived fertilisers, irrigation water and surface water (Koutsoumanis et al., 2021). A pre-requisite for generating reliable data on agricultura...
Objectives: (1) Develop computational models that capture the complex gene regulations of fungal species;(2) Use public condition-dependent gene essentially data to finetune models to identify genes crucial for pathogen control;(3) Valida...
Barley is the fourth most important cereal crop globally, cultivated in over 100 countries for food (human and animal) and for alcohol production. Many threats face barley production, including pests, diseases and environmental stressors su...
Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) parasites of sheep have a profound impact on animal health and welfare and the sustainability of the industry. The spread of resistance to anthelmintic drugs means that alternative control measures are needed...
Root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne sp.) are globally the most damaging plant-parasitic nematodes causing devastating loss of yield by parasitising the roots of their host plant. Meloidogyne naasi, the cereal root-knot nematode, has recently b...
Dormancy and vernalization protect plants against winter conditions and enable flowering in the spring. However, climate change is disrupting the environmental signals required for dormancy and vernalization and altering plant’s life cycle ...