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Angela Karp

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Susan Watts

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Phialophora field trial Credit: Rothamsted Research

Crop immunisation can root out take-all fungus

Natural use of biology to control disease in crops is the Holy Grail of agriculture, and a team of young researchers has found a way of easing cereals’ risks from a deadly root pathogen.

22 May 2018

Top soil. GeoNutrition. Credit: Rothamsted Research

HIDDEN THREAT TO HEALTH

Falling levels of essential nutrients in diets around the world demand urgent action, from soil-crop-human interactions in food chains to shifts in socio-economic-cultural policies.

01 Jan 2018

WGIN wheat plots. News 27 Dec 2017. Credit: Rothamsted Research

COMBINE HARVESTERS

How do you deliver as much wheat over the next 50 years as you have produced over the past 10,000 years? You join forces and forge a community of determined specialists.

27 Dec 2017

Wheat stem rust. Pustules through seedling leaf. Credit: Karanjeet Sandhu/University of Sydney

RUST STEMMED FOR WHEAT

The threat to global food security from the fungal pathogen that causes stem rust in wheat has eased but an “ongoing arms race” needs constant vigilance

22 Dec 2017

Gia Aradottir. 2017 RI Christmas Lectures. Credit: Rothamsted Research

KNOCK, KNOCK! "WHO’S THERE?"

An aphid. "You’re kidding me; that’s no aphid – aphids can’t talk." We may not be able to talk but we can communicate, and very well, just watch this year’s Christmas lectures.

21 Dec 2017

Bee on flower. Viewpoint 20 Dec 2017. Credit: Rothamsted Research

DOUBLE DOSE FOR BEES

Rothamsted comments on research published today that links reduced survival of honey bees to the combined effects of neonicotinoid pesticides and intensive agriculture

20 Dec 2017

Sir Paul Nurse. Rothamsted Seminar Series, 18 Dec 2017. Credit: Rothamsted Research

AGRICULTURE NEEDS A CHAMPION

Don’t visit politicians only to complain; push at a door that is opening; translation comes after understanding, not before; communicate – the natural philosophy of Paul Nurse

18 Dec 2017