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Lynsey is a post-doc at Moredun Research working on anthelmintic resistance in sheep and cattle worms
Farming practices are evolving in response to intensification, diversification and climate change. As farm management has changed, pathogens of livestock have also adapted to optimise their reproduction and transmission opportunities. Our work, supported by Animal and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB), has focused on the control and biology of the economically important roundworm Nematodirus battus; a gut roundworm which annually threatens the health and welfare of young lambs across the UK. Our research has explored how Nematodirus behaves on commercial sheep farms. We have mapped the
"The event will feature a virtual site so that anyone can tour the science, specialist and industry expertise that would have been available at the actual in-field event" The programme for Arable Scotland 2020, Scotland's newest field event focussing on arable crops, has been announced. This year's event is taking place online and will major on alternative crops and new markets. More information from: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, James Hutton Institute, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0)7791 193918 (mobile). read more
Friday the 5th of June is the United Nations World Environment Day and the theme for 2020 is biodiversity. In recognition of this, we have brought together a selection of our case studies around this topic. Below you can read more about how our researchers are exploring how to make ecosystems more resilient, have established a genetic scorecard for measuring genetic diversity, developed a suite of environmental indicators to monitor ecosystem health and investigated which values are most relevant to protecting biodiversity in Scotland. Learning By Doing: Understanding and Managing for
"We are extremely well placed to help society by understanding the impacts of rapid biodiversity loss and finding routes to sustainable management that can help reverse them" Biodiversity āthe variety of species, the genes within them, and the habitats in which they liveā is threatened like never before. According to figures from the United Nations Environment Programme, we are on the verge of mass extinction: within the next 10 years, around 1 million species may be wiped off the surface of the planet - one out of every four known species. Wildlife has declined on average by over 60 per cent
āDevelopment of climate-resilient varieties is high on the James Hutton Instituteās agenda and blackcurrants are an important species in understanding the effect of climate changeā Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS) has invested over half a million pounds in a five-year project with the James Hutton Institute to develop new varieties of climate-resilient blackcurrant. LRS, which uses 90 per cent of the blackcurrants grown in Britain to make Ribena, has supported the globally recognised Institute since 1991, investing over Ā£10 million to improve the sustainability and quality of British blackcurrant
Soil is, and always will be, a very valuable resource. Soil is critical for food production and regulating several services to the wider environment, such as flood regulation and storing carbon. Soil is not perfect, however. Occasionally landslides and soil erosion can impact our lives causing significant delays and disruption requiring new approaches and landscape management strategies. One such approach is to make soil stronger and more resistant to failure through the use of vegetation, and more importantly, the root system of plants.