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"Our Plant Power open day is a wonderful chance for everyone to come and learn about and be amazed by our relationship with plants"

"Professor Jackson’s book, 'Prosperity without Growth' is a landmark in the sustainability debate"

"The pathogen population is constantly evolving which can challenge the effectiveness of disease management practices"

"Current work at the Hutton Institute is testing for Lyme disease risk at a lot of sites with widely varying deer densities to test the impact of deer densities on Lyme disease risk"

"Understanding the function of the mutation in Golden Promise and its interactions with other genes means that favourable traits can be bred into our current varieties of barley"

“This discovery reveals a novel strategy that can be used by a pathogen to suppress the plants immune system, highlighting a vulnerability in our crops that could potentially be protected in the future.”

"Each use of the service to analyse a crop sample is worth savings of approximately £14 in labour and equipment for farmers"

Cryptosporidium is one of the most important infectious scour causes in young calves and can be very difficult to get rid of.

“Armed with this information, breeders and scientists will be much better placed to deal with the challenge of effectively addressing the food security agenda under the constraints of a rapidly changing environment."

"With more than 9,000 delegates from across the world in attendance, the AAG conference is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in geography and related disciplines"

“Given the international nature of the problems that rural areas face, the SIMRA team works closely with those initiating and benefiting from social innovations to learn about motivations, experiences and barriers encountered”

“Barley is an excellent crop model to understand complex mechanisms like recombination and to develop new protocols and techniques that can be easily transferred to wheat and other cereals.” Related content 

“In some cases we can reduce applications of existing pesticides by precision monitoring or complementing with biocontrol. In other cases we’ll need to substitute old for new, for example biopesticides that are compatible with biocontrol and other IPM tools”

"The James Hutton Institute supports the project in a training and advisory capacity, given our expertise in potato research and breeding"

"Each and every Biodiversity Champion has an inspiring, and in some cases humbling, story to tell"

"SEFARI is developing ways to align the right research and expertise with those who need it – whether policy, business or individuals"

Businesses, charities, communities and policy-makers will benefit from easier access to environmental and agricultural research carried out in Scotland, thanks to a collective launched today.

"It was a real honour to be invited to speak to delegates interested in discussing the biggest issues in the berry business"

“Such platforms as CaMMP are important for enabling the water industry, policy makers and regulators to know what information and models are available to help them in their decision making”

"Although velvet ants are often referred to as ‘cow killers’, there is no evidence they could be dangerous to livestock and they are unlikely to be found on farmland."