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The fourth round of applications for the croptransformation [at] niab.com (Community Resource for Wheat Transformation) is open.

A free online course on the selection and management of cover crops is now available from ARTIS, NIAB TAG’s training platform.

Rothamsted Research, Lawes Agricultural Trust (LAT) and NIAB have signed an agreement to jointly use the Broom’s Barn farm for field experiments.

The National Institute of Agricultural Botany’s visitor centre has been short-listed for a national ‘green’ construction award for the second year in a row.

The Sophi Taylor Building, opened in 2013, is one of only four construction projects short-listed for the BREEAM 2015 award in the ‘offices – new construction’ category, in recognition of the building’s environmental credentials in construction and management. The other buildings are 1 Pancras Square at Kings Cross, Blox in Prague and the Tata Steel Visitor Centre in Port Talbot.

NIAB CUF’s, Head of the Potato Agronomy Research Group, Dr David Firman has received the first of three £150,000 Potato Council research fellowships to help develop the next generation of leading potato scientists.

Four final year BSc (Hons) Agriculture students from the Royal Agricultural University have successfully tested their crop management skills against agricultural students from across the UK, and a team of agronomists, to win the 2014 Countrywide NIAB Agronomy Cup.

Wheat growers can now check and improve their disease identification skills in the field, in the office, in the tractor or at home, with a free online training course from NIAB TAG’s new training platform ARTIS.

The ‘Wheat Disease Identification’ course, available at www.artistraining.com, asks users to identify symptoms for over 20 key diseases of wheat through a series of interactive image-led quizzes. Split over two levels it includes useful diagnostic information allowing users to fine-tune and further develop their skills.

NIAB’s UK superwheat research could soon be helping improve the heat tolerance of wheat crops in India.

Researchers from NIAB, India’s Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) and the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) are collaborating on a £1 million project, codenamed SHWheat, to combine NIAB’s expertise in wheat pre-breeding technologies with research strengths in India.

Growers should not be alarmed by active yellow rust in early sown wheat advises a leading cereal pathologist.