| Our Research › |
Rothamsted Research is the longest running agricultural research station in the world, providing cutting-edge science and innovation for nearly 170 years.
Our mission is to deliver the knowledge and new practices to increase crop productivity and quality and to develop environmentally sustainable solutions for food and energy production.
Click here to download our Science Strategy 2012-2017 (3.2 MB)
Click here to download a two page leaflet about our Science Strategy (1.7 MB)
20:20 Wheat ® | Cropping Carbon | Designing Seeds | Sustainable Systems
| 20:20 wheat ® |
| cropping carbon |
| designing seeds |
| sustainable systems |
National Capabilities
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...
PHI-base
A database of interactions between pathogens and their hosts maintained at Rothamsted Research with international input. More...
Long-Term Experiments
These have been running since the mid 19th Century, provide a unique experimental system and archive of soil and plant samples. More...
Rothamsted Research receives
strategic funding from the BBSRC
strategic funding from the BBSRC
