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Where there’s muck, there’s brass

Science finally unearths why soil carbon is so valuable

30 Jun 2020

SHAKE Climate Change Fund Announces Its First Investments

Three agri-tech start-ups will each get £140k – but the expert mentoring will be priceless

25 Jun 2020

Grazing experiment shows IPCC's own estimates of climate impacts are off

Emissions from white clover pastures with cattle are lower than previously suggested

5 Jun 2020

Cheers! Designer wheat bred for whisky distillers

Bespoke variety will make UK wheat more attractive than imported maize

16 May 2020

Rothamsted answers White House call for coronavirus data help

Search tool will help medical researchers discover all known virus, gene and drug links

6 May 2020

Harvesting combine data to tackle field-edge yield declines

Study links biodiversity found just beyond the field with variations in yield

22 Apr 2020

Researcher makes internet appeal after Covid-19 stymies her research

Farmers needed for short survey on beetles

20 Apr 2020

Peter Tomkins 1932-2020

It is with great sadness that we have to report the passing of Peter Tomkins on the 27th March.

17 Apr 2020

‘Exciting’ anti-cancer compound discovered in the humble willow

More than a century after giving the world aspirin, another potential drug has been found in willows – this time with anti-cancer properties

15 Apr 2020

Gene breakthrough in fight against weeds

Development is a 'game-changer' for lab studies into herbicide resistance

8 Apr 2020

Scientists demonstrate that white flour is the healthiest it’s been in 200 years

Despite concerns over a lack of genetic diversity, modern wheat has more health benefits

6 Apr 2020

Michael Wakelam 1955 – 2020

Message from Angela Karp, Interim Director, Rothamsted Research

3 Apr 2020

British moths declining but aphid numbers stable

Analysis of 24 million individual insects paints a complicated picture of changing population dynamics

4 Mar 2020

People's views determine success of disease control strategies

Emphasising the effectiveness of control - and not risk from infection - may be key to combating pathogens

6 Feb 2020

Scientists prove high fibre white loaf is possible

Group identifies parts of the genome that control fibre content of white flour, raising hope that products will be in shops within five years

5 Feb 2020

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28 Jan 2020

Herbicide resistant weed could cost UK £1 billion a year

Economic model addresses the costs of resistance in blackgrass

23 Dec 2019