Dr Ed Dickin
Supervisor Details
Research Interests
- Crop Physiology
- Plant Stress
- Barley for healthy food
- beta-glucans
- Plant Breeding
- Traffic and tillage systems
Involved with these other projects (as researcher)
Scientific Inspiration
Martin Wolfe ‘The farmers’ Darwin’: used the power of evolution to help farmers bred their own resilient crops.
Nikolai Vavilov: A courageous scientist in very dark times (Soviet Union under Stalin), plant-hunting Indiana Jones and founding father of our understanding and wonder of crop diversity.
Norman Borlaug: founder of the Green Revolution with a determination to apply science – ‘take it to the farmer’.
Project Details
Dr Ed Dickin is supervising no projects this year.