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

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

On 24 January the Government published the Foresight report on Global Food and Farming Futures. This highlights the measures required to be able to feed a growing population and the challenges of farming in a changing climate.

BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today programme visited Warwick Crop Centre to interview Dr Rosemary Collier, Director of Warwick Crop Centre, and geneticist Dr Graham Teakle to discuss how research is tackling some of the problems raised by the report.

Listen to the Farming Today programme on iPlayer (The Crop Centre item starts at 6:34 mins)