April 5, 2018

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Novos projetos buscam a proteção de plantas no cultivo de grãos

March 22, 2018

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Keys to bee-friendly neonics - Two enzymes, one in the honeybee and one in the bumblebee, may hold the keys to a new generation of pesticides that protect crops without threatening the pollinators' brainpower

Breakthrough could aid development of bee-friendly pesticides

Bayer, Exeter University and Rothamsted Research to identify enzymes in bees that determine sensitivity to neonicotinoids
Bayer, die Universität Exeter und Rothamsted Research haben Enzyme identifiziert, die die Empfindlichkeit von Bienen gegenüber Neonikotinoiden bestimmen

March 7, 2018

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Closed door: plant with a stoma for drought - Rothamsted Research comments on findings that promise plants primed to need much less water for the same yield, which would be both environmental boon and drought saviour

March 2, 2018

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Broad brush condemns neonics - Rothamsted Research comments on a European evaluation of the unintended risks to bees from neonicotinoid pesticides that again highlights the need for more detailed studies

February 28, 2018

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United Kingdom - Wheat Genetic Improvement Network funded to 2023

February 22, 2018

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United Kingdom - Rothamsted Research comments on the Business Secretary's speech calling for an agricultural revolution in the use of technology and innovation

February 21, 2018

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Rothamsted Research seeks permission from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs for the release of genetically modified Camelina plants for up to three years

February 12, 2018

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Weeds our of control - Spraying weeds with chemicals has always been costly. Now it is costly and ineffective, with resistance to herbicides pervasive and demanding a new strategy to protect crops

Another blow to fungal infection - For the first time, researchers have isolated a natural resistance gene to Septoria, Europe's most economically damaging wheat disease and a fungal threat to wheat crops globally

Thrips know their onions - Rapid studies of a pest infestation of salad onions and leeks have confirmed that one of the few treatments available to UK growers to protect their crops no longer works effectively

February 7, 2018

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Sweet way to greater yields - A promising technique that makes maize more productive even in droughts has now been unpicked and looks set to do the same for a range of other crops, including wheat and rice

January 5, 2018

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Back to the future - Long-term experiments continue to inform agricultural science, to guide the future of farming and food production, all issues for a new conference in May at Rothamsted Research

December 21, 2017

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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

Wheat disease breakthrough to help feed the world - Scientists have isolated the very first rust pathogen gene that wheat plants detect to 'switch on' resistance

December 11, 2017

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Natural route masters - Bumblebees regularly tackle the Travelling Salesman Problem to improve their foraging routes, a skill that promises to yield solutions in the fields of robotics and logistics

November 30, 2017

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The latest annual report of Rothamsted Research, for 2016-17, with a review of the five years of the institute’s former strategic plan, 2012-2017, goes online today

November 27, 2017

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European Union - Glyphosate renewal approved

Clean sweep for British agriculture - The government today released its long-awaited Industrial Strategy, with agricultural R&D a key component of the drive for more enterprising and sustainable growth

November 21, 2017

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Plastic plants are okay! - As a developmental geneticist by training, Ottoline Leyser might have studied animals, but plants' ability to tune their development to their environment won her over completely

November 14, 2017

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Rothamsted Research has set out agriculture’s role in winning success for the government’s strategy to make the UK the best place in the world to invest in life sciences

Omega-3 fish oil from a plant? GMO camelina could offer sustainable alternative (Genetic Literacy Project)

November 9, 2017

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United Kingdom backs neonics ban - Restrictions on the use of neonicotinoids should be extended to safeguard bees and other pollinators, says Environment Secretary Michael Gove

November 8, 2017

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Rothamsted Research celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2018 with a three-day conference dedicated to exploring the role of classical and other long-term experiments in agricultural science

November 2, 2017

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Want to know about wheat? The future of wheat is the focus for a state-of-the-art meeting by the Wheat Genetic Improvement Network (WGIN), alongside current trends and developments

October 20, 2017

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Out of the classroom and into the lab - Students pondering STEM careers win praise for tackling a diverse range of research projects to gain a taste of life as agricultural scientists - Four Nuffield scholars who worked in laboratories at Rothamsted Research

October 11, 2017

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Gotcha: the gene that takes the fun out of fungus - Discovery of a gene that turns fungi into pathogens presents chemists with a target for fungicides that could bring relief to arable farmers, vegetable growers and people

October 10, 2017

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'Better understanding' needed to exploit GM crops (Farmers Weekly)

October 9, 2017

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Food security needs more from GM crops - Only a better understanding of fundamental plant processes can exploit the potential of GM technology to create higher yielding, more resilient food crops