Securing food supplies up to 2050: the challenges faced by the UK - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee Contents


Annex 2

DEFRA LINK PROJECTS AT ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH

    — Integrated management of herbicide resistance.— Integrated management strategies for varieties tolerant and susceptible to orange wheat blossom midge.

    — Managing potato cyst nematode through maximising natural decline and population suppression.

    — Biofortification of wheat and selenium through agronomy and genotype selection to increase human dietary intake.

    — Understanding evaluation and selection of azole resistance mechanisms in UK populations of Mychosphaerella graminicola.

    — Managing uncropped land in order to enhance biodiversity benefits of the arable farmed landscape.

    — Improving water use efficiency and drought tolerance in UK winter wheat.

    — Integrated control of bean seed beetle Bruchus rufimanus.

    — Challenges from climate change for disease management in sustainable arable crops.

    — Development of an integrated pest management strategy for control of pollen beetles in oilseed rape.

    — Using legume based mixtures to enhance the nitrogen use efficiency and economic viability of cropping systems.

    — Sustaining the effectiveness of new insecticides against aphid pests in the UK.






 
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