Broom's Barn Applied Crop Sciences
Modelling
Dr Aiming Qi
Research Group Leader
Objectives
The main objective of this group is: to test biological hypotheses expressed as mathematical and statistical models that can be used with experimental data to analyse, evaluate and refine biological knowledge; to develop software and databases that facilitate the scientific research and technology transfer; and to ensure that data are collected, managed, analysed and interpreted using the best available methods.
Main Research Projects
- Benchmarking growers’ performance in sugar beet.
- Vulnerability of UK agriculture to extreme weather events.
- Forecasting sugar yield, diseases occurrence and severity for sugar beet.
