Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Scientists at the James Hutton Institute are assessing the potential of extracting high-value compounds from byproducts of potato crop production.
Friday, August 26, 2016
A report commissioned by the Scottish Government and authored by researchers from the James Hutton Institute has outlined the social and motivational barriers that stop older people doing outdoor recreational activities.
Friday, August 19, 2016
Research by James Hutton Institute scientists on climate change and forestry has been featured in publications by FAO and the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Network.
Friday, August 19, 2016
The James Hutton Institute and the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences have agreed on plans to explore joint solutions to potato pests and diseases responsible for major losses to farmers and industry.
Friday, August 12, 2016
Despite some early rain, this year's Potatoes in Practice featured hundreds of farmers, scientists, policymakers and potato industry representatives who came together to see new varieties and discuss the latest research.
Friday, August 05, 2016
Potato scientists from all across Europe and beyond descended on Dundee to discuss threats to potato crops in different parts of the world.
Monday, August 01, 2016
Potatoes in Practice, the UK's largest technical potato field event bringing together scientists, industry representatives, growers and influencers, is just around the corner.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
How did barley, a plant native to the Middle East and South-Western Asia, become able to be grown on land from just below the Arctic Circle to the equatorial highlands and southerly latitudes?
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
An international team of researchers from leading institutions in Scotland, Germany, Israel and the USA has succeeded for the first time in sequencing the genome of 6,000 year old barley grains from the Copper Age (the Chalcolithic).
![By Dr. phil.nat Thomas Geier, Geisenheim. [CC BY-SA 3.0] Wikicommons](https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_thumb/images/news/Chloroplast-345x250px_0.jpg "By Dr. phil.nat Thomas Geier, Geisenheim. [CC BY-SA 3.0] Wikicommons")
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
A collaboration between Dundee and Manchester scientists has made significant progress into understanding how cellulose - one of the most abundant biological substances on the planet - is synthesised.
