This project is based at the James Hutton Institute (JHI), a global leader in cereal genetics and home of the International Barley Hub (IBH), a newly unveiled multimillion research facility. The project aims at gaining novel insight into ...
Salinity is a global issue;its impact on crop cultivation is widely acknowledged (1 ), affecting 1 million Hectares of land ( ) in the European Union. Previously salinity wasn’t a problem in the UK;however, it’s a growing concern, impacti...
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...
Ants play many important roles in ecosystems including nutrient cycling, seed dispersal, soil aeration and controlling populations of other insects and plants [1]. However, some species can also be invasive with harmful ecological and socio...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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 ...
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...