"Our open day was a tremendous success with lots of visitors who had a great time despite some intermittent rain showers"
"This is a great opportunity to use our leading scientific expertise to make a positive and practical contribution to the sustainability of our food production systems"
"TRUE aims to pinpoint the role of legumes in harmonising the often-conflicting needs of the ‘environment’, ‘society’ and ‘business’, the so-called three pillars of sustainability"
Scientists have received funding to investigate the role of zinc and copper on ageing.
“The James Hutton Institute is globally recognised as a centre of excellence for potato research and James Hutton Limited manages some of the largest, commercially funded, potato breeding programmes in the UK"
"By working collectively, we can ensure the future prosperity of technical skills in higher education and research"
"This is a fantastic success for Morrice and Ann and truly showcases the diversity of potato."
"It was particularly timely to contribute to one of the world’s leading map publishing organisation following on from the 70th anniversary of the Institute being given responsibility for the national mapping of Scotland’s soils"
“The Hutton board reflects the broad interests of the research institute in the knowledge we need to combine understanding and perspectives of the environment, agriculture and food if we are to solve the really big issues around sustainable land use”
“Our event aims to provide an insight into state-of-art in the research on and application of this fascinating Scottish heritage resource for future crop sustainability”
Moredun is a partner in VetBioNet which aims to reinforce the cooperation between Europe’s leading high-containment research infrastructures to advance research on epizootic and zoonotic diseases and to promote technological developments.
"Our Plant Power open day is a wonderful chance for everyone to come and learn about and be amazed by our relationship with plants"
"Professor Jackson’s book, 'Prosperity without Growth' is a landmark in the sustainability debate"
"The pathogen population is constantly evolving which can challenge the effectiveness of disease management practices"
"Current work at the Hutton Institute is testing for Lyme disease risk at a lot of sites with widely varying deer densities to test the impact of deer densities on Lyme disease risk"
"Understanding the function of the mutation in Golden Promise and its interactions with other genes means that favourable traits can be bred into our current varieties of barley"
“This discovery reveals a novel strategy that can be used by a pathogen to suppress the plants immune system, highlighting a vulnerability in our crops that could potentially be protected in the future.”
"Each use of the service to analyse a crop sample is worth savings of approximately £14 in labour and equipment for farmers"
Cryptosporidium is one of the most important infectious scour causes in young calves and can be very difficult to get rid of.
“Armed with this information, breeders and scientists will be much better placed to deal with the challenge of effectively addressing the food security agenda under the constraints of a rapidly changing environment."