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Testing the heat of chillis
Analytical chemist Andy Jukes, from Warwick Crop Centre, describes the analysis of heat in chillis on the BBC Radio 4 Food Programme 'Chilli Britannia'.
Broadcast on Sunday 14 April 2013.
BBC Radio 4 visits Warwick Crop Centre to find out about Pesticide Development
On Saturday 20 October, BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme visited the Warwick Crop Centre to find out how pesticides are developed and regulated. The programme includes:
- Dr Rosemary Collier on Integrated Pest Management and approaches to the development of pesticides (04:12 - 06:16, 18:17 - 19:43, 24:18 - 24:32))
- Dr Dave Chandler on biopesticides (06:16 - 10:18)
- Dr John Clarkson investigating biofumigation to control Sclerotinia (13:26 - 16:00)
Listen to the programme on BBC iPlayer (available until Fri 26 October)
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BBC Radio 4 visits Warwick Crop Centre
On Friday 12 August, BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme visited the Warwick Crop Centre to find out about research to increase vegetable yields, and quality, in the face of increasing pressures on climate change and food security.
The programme includes:
- Dr Rosemary Collier investigating sources of resistance to lettuce pests.
- Dr Charlotte Allender discussing the use of carrot diversity sets to look for useful traits such as disease resistance and tolerance to drought.
- Dr Graham Teakle examining nitrogen-use efficiency in oil seed rape.
Listen to the programme on BBC iPlayer
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