News
See below for the latest news from the Warwick Crop Centre.
For our latest publications see Crop Centre in Print
Professor Eric Holub talking about breeding haricot beans on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today programme
You can listen to the podcast here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098bsy0
Andrew Jukes on BBC's 'Supermarket Shopping Secrets' testing chilli heat
Andrew Jukes from the School of Life Sciences, Warwick Crop Centre discusses the testing of chilli heat with Greg Wallace on the BBC's programme 'Supermarket Shopping Secrets'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08w8r98/supermarket-shopping-secrets-series-1-1-war# (42:28 to 46:39).
New AHDB-funded project - SCEPTREplus
The School of Life Sciences is a partner in a new £1.4M 4-year project ‘SCEPTREplus’ funded by the AHDB. The aim of the project is to deliver applied research on high priority disease, pest and weed problems in fresh produce and ornamental crops in order to support approval of products and devise and develop IPM programmes. The project consortium is chaired by Ed Moorhouse (Agri-Food Solutions Director) and includes RSK ADAS, NIAB EMR and Stockbridge Technology Centre.