Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Scientists at the James Hutton Institute and partner organisations are working to understand the interactions between pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum and an array of soil-microbe-crop interactions in the development of blackleg, one of the most damaging bacterial plant diseases in the UK.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute, Forest Research and the University of Aberdeen have developed a new way to quantify the potential carbon storage for eleven different forestry management alternatives in Scottish locations using a novel spatial analysis method, which was used to develop an online mapping tool to represent net changes.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Today (13 August) would have seen us in the field for Potatoes in Practice 2020 but COVID-19 put paid to plans. However, the ‘free day’ gives us an opportunity to look back at the history of PIP and how it became an unmissable date in the potato industry calendar.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The James Hutton Institute's bioinformatics group within the Department of Information and Computational Sciences has unveiled a new version of Germinate, the Institute's open-source, fully featured plant database infrastructure and application programming platform.
Monday, August 10, 2020
The programme for Fruit for the Future 2020, the James Hutton Institute’s long-running soft fruit themed industry event, has been announced. Usually a well-attended physical event, this year FFF is going virtual with a week’s worth of online updates from each of the soft fruit breeding programmes, starting on Monday 24th August.
Friday, August 07, 2020
A research programme led by the University of Birmingham and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad and including the James Hutton Institute has received £1.2 million of UK and Indian funding to explore the role played by India’s rivers in increasing antimicrobial resistance.
Friday, August 07, 2020
The James Hutton Institute is taking part in a project led by the Scottish Organic Producers Association (SOPA), the UK’s only membership body owning Scottish organic standards, which will examine a new product that could help Scottish farmers draw down more carbon into their soils.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
A new £1 million research project led by James Hutton Institute scientists aims to develop a UK system to understand and monitor changes in soil carbon from agricultural systems.
Monday, July 27, 2020
Professor Lorna Dawson of the James Hutton Institute has been recognised as Soil Forensic Expert Witness of the Year at Global Law Experts (GLE) Awards. Professor Dawson has more than 30 years’ experience in managing and conducting research in soil and plant interactions, in particular its application in the criminal justice system.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
New research by an international research team including ecologists at the James Hutton Institute has produced the most comprehensive long-term image of the state of biodiversity across Europe, showing -among a number of findings – significant changes in species communities and a decline in insect abundance.
