Thursday, August 20, 2020
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute and partner institutions are developing a suite of digital resources to help farmers harness the potential of crop mixtures to improve the sustainability of their production systems.
Thursday, August 20, 2020
New research by the James Hutton Institute shows that changing weather patterns are likely to make private water supplies across Scotland more vulnerable to droughts, a major issue considering that private supplies provide drinking water to 4% of Scotland’s population, and to many more through businesses and tourist facilities.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
The James Hutton Institute is pleased to support the National Biofilms Innovation Centre's #BiofilmAware campaign, which aims to raise awareness of biofilms and their importance for our everyday lives.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Social research by the James Hutton Institute shows that Irish farmers perceive public debate is turning against them in relation to the environment and animal welfare, which can create stress and a feeling of lack of control over the public narrative about the work they do.
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.
