For Scientists

Resources

› Analytical Chemistry Unit - Provides extraction, digestion and analysis procedures
› Bioimaging Unit - State-of-the-art microscopy instrumentation and a wide range of techniques
› Controlled Environment and Glasshouse Facilities - Responsible for growing a wide range of plant material
› Electron micrographs of viruses - Produced by our Bioimaging Unit and distributed by the Science Photo Library
› ENDURE Resource Centre (ERC) - Information and resources on Integrated Crop Protection in Europe
› e-RA: the electronic Rothamsted Archive - Secure storage of Rothamsted's long term experimental data
› Library and Archives - One of the oldest specialist agricultural collections in the UK
› National Centre for Plant and Microbial Metabolomics - Research and service activity in plant and microbial metabolomics
› PHI-base: The Pathogen - Host Interaction Database - Contains expertly curated molecular and biological information on genes proven to affect the outcome of pathogen-host interactions
› UK Environmental Change Network at Rothamsted Research - Long-term environmental monitoring programme

Mathematical Models

› LARS-WG stochastic weather generator - Simulating time-series of daily weather at a single site
› Rothamsted Carbon model (RothC) - The turnover of organic carbon in soil
› RothLime (Rothamsted Lime Requirement Model) - Used for deciding how much lime to add to raise a soil's pH under UK conditions
› SIRIUS wheat simulation model - Calculates biomass from intercepted photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and grain growth from simple partitioning rules
› SUNDIAL (SimUlation of Nitrogen Dynamics In Arable Land) - Nitrogen turnover in the crop/soil system

Scientific Publications

Theses, papers in refereed journals and other significant publications

Rothamsted Insect Survey

Operates two national networks for monitoring insect populations in the UK. More...

North Wyke Farm Platform

Provides the research community access to a range of in situ state-of-the-art instrumentation in hydrologically isolated fields and farms to better address key issues in sustainable agriculture. More...