News
See below for the latest news from the Warwick Crop Centre.
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How do weed seeds know spring is here? BBC Midlands Today interview with Bill Finch-Savage and Steve Footit featuring the thermal gradient tunnels at Warwick Crop Centre.
BBC Midlands Today interview with Bill Finch-Savage and Steve Footit featuring the thermal gradient tunnels at Warwick Crop Centre.
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
Breeding sustainability in plants
In an interview with Warwick's Knowledge Centre, Dr Rosemary Collier and Dr Graham Teakle discuss ways to increase the sustainability of crop production.