FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

We offer a wide range of scientific facilities and resources both to support our research community and provide services to external partners

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CHEMICAL ECOLOGY UNIT

Chromatographic, spectroscopic and electrophysiological data on pheromones and volatile organic compounds

DENIS LABORATORY

DENIS is an automated incubation system to measure emissions and study transformations of nutrients in soil. The system allows incubation of intact or repacked soil cores and measurement of gaseous emissions.

LIPIDOMICS

Lipid composition and turnover is fundamental to our understanding of cell function

OUR FARMS

Our 800 Ha of research farms are spread across 4 counties.

LIVESTOCK AND FARM RESOURCES, NORTH WYKE

Rothamsted Research’s North Wyke site hosts a 350ha beef and sheep farm and is home to the North Wyke Farm Platform National Capability.

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY UNIT

Crop, soil and water analysis - the Harpenden facility provides a specialist agricultural analysis service in support of the research programmes of the Institute, collaborators, and external clients.

THE ROTHAMSTED INSECTARY

A specialised facility that maintains a range of both indigenous and exotic insect species.

DRY SPECTROSCOPY LAB

The dry spectroscopy lab provides a high quality soil information to gain a better understanding of the link between soil characteristics, crop productivity and nutrition.

FIELD SCANALYZER

Field Scanalyzer, a fully-automated, high throughput field phenotyping platform built by LemnaTec GmbH.

CROP TRANSFORMATION AND GENOME EDITING

Rothamsted Research offers a crop transformation service to generate transgenic plants for research purposes for both internal projects and external contracts.

GLASSHOUSES AND CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT SERVICES

The Horticultural and Controlled Environments are specialist plant growth and ancillary support facilities here at Rothamsted Research.

METABOLOMICS AT ROTHAMSTED (MET-RO)

Using NMR and MS techniques, MeT-RO delivers a high throughput plant metabolomics facility that supports RRes research projects and is accessible to internal and external users.

BIOIMAGING

Rothamsted Research's bioimaging facility provides equipment and training dedicated to facilitate cutting-edge science through the provision of up to date and advanced imaging equipment and expertise in the life sciences.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES (LIS)

LIS provides print and online library services for Rothamsted employees across all sites as well as safeguarding Rothamsted's heritage collections.

THE UK NATIONAL WILLOW COLLECTION

Rothamsted Research holds the National Willow Collection, one of the largest ensembles of Salix germplasm in the world.

THE ROTHAMSTED SAMPLE ARCHIVE

With remarkable prescience, Lawes and Gilbert retained samples of crops, soils, fertilisers and manures from the long-term experiments, dating back to the 1840s.

GLTEN: THE GLOBAL LONG-TERM AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT NETWORK

The Global Long-Term Agricultural Experiment Network (GLTEN) is a network of long-term agricultural experiments spanning five continents and representing numerous climates, environments, crop systems and farming practices.

INSECT BULLETIN

The Insect Survey National Capability provides weekly bulletins designed to bring you up-to-date news on the distribution and abundance of pest aphids at a regional scale.

PHI-BASE

The Pathogen-Host Interaction database is an open access internet resource which provides information on pathogenicity, virulence and effector genes from different pathogens.

FARM PLATFORM DATA PORTAL

The Farm Platform National Capability Data Portal contains data for the Farm Platform at North Wyke in Devon and makes this available to both Rothamsted staff and the wider research community.

E-RA

The electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA) provides a permanent managed database for secure storage of data from Rothamsted's Classical Experiments, the oldest, continuous agronomic experiments in the world.

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE NETWORK

Rothamsted Research has been involved with the terrestrial side of the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) since 1992.

MODELS AND ANALYTICAL TOOLS

We have developed models and analytical tools through the course of our research which you are welcome to share - ROTHC, ROTHLIME, MOTOR, SPACSYS can be accessed here

SIRIUS WHEAT SIMULATION MODEL

Sirius is a wheat simulation model used in research by many scientists to understand crop responses to environmental variations and stress, and in practice by farmers to optimize water and N management.

LARS-WG WEATHER SIMULATION MODEL

LARS-WG is a computationally inexpensive tool to generate local-scale climate scenarios based on global climate models for impact assessments of climate change. LARS-WG has been used in more than 75 countries.

Farm Crap App

Farm Crap App Designed to help farmers make the most of their manure (slurry, farmyard manure and poultry litter). The free app contains 3 components; the calculator, the image library (to which you can add your own photos), and the record sheets. The calculator will determine the amount of crop-available key nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) within the manure at different spreading rates helping you decide how much to spread in order to meet the crop requirements.

Download the app for Android and Apple.

Contact: Robet Dunn

CROPROTECT

CROPROTECT is a web-based knowledge exchange system to provide farmers and agronomists with guidance on pest, weed and disease management, especially in situations where effective pesticides are not available and alternative approaches are required.

Contact for general enquiries: Laura Crook

Contact for disease information: Jon West

KnetMiner

KnetMiner provides an easy to use, web interface to visualisation and data mining tools for the discovery and evaluation of candidate genes from large scale integrations of public and private data sets.

Contact: Keywan Hassani-Pak

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