ADAS news

ADAS have just published their 2005-6 Science Review. You will need to request relevant parts, or all, be sent to you. This is simply so that they know where they have gone and can advise of any future updates.

The ADAS website has recently been changed and soon there will be new crops pages. When accessible it can be reached via: www.adas.co.uk/crops - it will contain more information about what ADAS does.

Minor oilseeds, fatty acids and nutraceuticals: an industry perspective

NIAB is hosting a seminar by Peter Clough of Wassen International
2.30pm, 21 May 2007 in the Council Room, NIAB, Cambridge
Please let Mary McPhee at NIAB know if you wish to attend seminar.

CPPS seminar

The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex
Professor John Crawford,
University of Abertay, Dundee
22 February 2007
(Download the poster as a pdf)
http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/6020

January News

1. Press launch for BBSRC Crop Science Initiative - see:
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/briefings/crop_launch.pdf

2. Drought, biofuel and population growth drive up wheat prices - see:
http://money.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1983574,00.html
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2006/11/16/99638/biofuel-plant-to-boost-uk-wheat-prices.html

3. HGCS research strategy for next 3 years - see:
http://www.hgca.com/cms_publications.output/2/2/Publications/Publication/HGCA%20RandD%20Strategy%202007-10.mspx?fn=show&pubcon=3600

4. Gene underlying elevated protein content in wheat cloned:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5803/1298

Developments in biomass and biofuel production

1. Varietal variation in bioethanol content & research into improvements:
http://www.hgca.com/document.aspx?fn=load&media_id=2881&publicationId=3416
http://www.adas.co.uk/greengrain/index.html
http://www.greenspiritfuels.com/

2. Adas Report
ADAS Renewable energy capability statement Nov06

3. Plant Genomics:
http://www.erapg.org/everyone

4. Cereals:
http://www.smallgraincereals.org/
http://www.wgin.org.uk/index.php
http://www.wheatgenome.org/index.html
http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG2/index.shtml
http://maswheat.ucdavis.edu/
http://www.cimmyt.org/

5. Organisations:
http://www.eucarpia.org/
http://www.monogram.ac.uk/
http://www.jic.ac.uk/
http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/
http://www.international.inra.fr/
http://www.ipk-gatersleben.de/en
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
http://www.defra.gov.uk/
http://www.hgca.com/