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Untapped genetic potential means wheat yields only 60% of what they could be

Study shows after 11,000 years of wheat breeding, we've still got a long way to go

12 Dec 2019

Gene data suggests 'superbug' threat is underestimated

Discoveries of single mutations that increase microbe infectiousness have quadrupled since 2015

27 Nov 2019

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Our pest, weed and disease app CROPROTECT has received a major new update

27 Nov 2019

Prof makes world’s best list for 18th year running

Alongside 23 Nobel laureates, two Rothamsted staff are named among this year’s global elite

20 Nov 2019

Down, but not out

Fifty-year study shows the rise then fall of moths - but it's no 'insectageddon'

6 Nov 2019

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITIES TO BOOST AFRICAN SCIENCE

Exciting partnership covers a wide range of topics aimed at building agricultural capacity

1 Nov 2019

Future rice could reduce reliance on water intensive paddy fields

New research project aims to catalyse a rice revolution that will benefit low-income farmers and save water

17 Oct 2019

Major step towards infant formula that is more like human milk

Research team engineer plants to produce the human form of key fat molecule

2 Oct 2019

Multi-million-pound MAGIC: Conjuring up answers to one of life’s basic questions

Sixty years after Francis Crick predicted the central importance of protein synthesis, a new project aims to shed light on how it is controlled

30 Sep 2019

Study shows costs of reseeding permanent pasture

Inclusion of clover provides only real benefit with minimal yield improvement and climate implications

16 Sep 2019

Abattoir waste fertilisers could become the norm

Sustainable phosphorus study echoes the founding of Rothamsted - but the ingredients list might not be to everyone's taste

16 Sep 2019

Chief Executive brings successful five years at the helm to an end

Prof Achim Dobermann has announced he is to leave “wonderful” Rothamsted in December

13 Sep 2019

Rothamsted responds to new PM’s pledge on GM crops

Promise comes one year after the European Court of Justice ruled that genome editing technology be classed as GM

25 Jul 2019

Surprising birthplace of modern data analysis celebrates 100 years

Today's statistical methods and computerised data analysis can be traced back to an unlikely band of pioneers

10 Jul 2019

Farm lab adds 'high tech sheep shed'

The new Robert Orr Small Ruminant Facility will bolster research into the sustainability of livestock

4 Jul 2019

Wanted: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetles

Two projects hoping to provide some good news on CSFB control

1 Jul 2019

£3.5 million climate change fund established to shake agri-food sector

SHAKE will fund and train entrepreneurs and start-ups who have early stage science or tech-based solutions

24 Jun 2019