This event at the University of Hertfordshire explored the innovative and cutting edge solutions being developed to improve crop protection in the face of environmental change.
The University of Hertfordshire works collaboratively with farmers, crop protection and plant breeding companies, government research bodies and agricultural charities, and the event emphasised that research is strongly linked to industry needs.
Some of these collaborations were the focus of discussion at the event, including: understanding interactions between light leaf spot and phoma stem canker in oil seed rape (ADAS, RSK, Uni of Herts); identifying resistance to phoma stem canker and light leaf spot (Uni of Herts, KWS); potato cycst nematode diagnostics (Syngenta and Uni of Herts through Keith Davie’s start up); and an automated smart trap for wheat pathogen detection which is near commercialisation (Uni of Hert, Bayer, FERA).
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