Press Releases
UK Vegetable Genebank celebrates 40 years
The UK Vegetable Genebank (UKVGB), part of Warwick Crop Centre on the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ’s Wellesbourne Campus, celebrates its 40th anniversary next week.
Natural way to boost crop yield to be explored by Warwick Scientists
An innovative way to increase plant yield naturally, reducing the need for expensive fertilisers is being explored by researchers at the School of Life Sciences at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ, thanks to a £492,343 grant from the BBSRC.
Arctic's Global Seed Vault to receive 1000 types of seeds from Warwick's Vegetable Genebank
Just under 1000 seed samples from different crop species including kale, carrots and cauliflower are to be deposited at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Arctic Norway on the 25th February 2020, from the UK Vegetable Genebank (UKVGB) at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ Wellesbourne campus.
UK Natural Light Growing Centre opened for business at Warwick’s Innovation Campus in Warwickshire
Agri-tech innovation centre Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) and its greenhouse innovation partner RIPE Building Services, have officially opened their new high-tech greenhouse facility at the ÉñÂí¸£ÀûӰƬ’s Wellesbourne Campus.
‘Millennial bean’ could give UK a new home-grown plant protein
A new bean variety which could become the UK’s next commercial plant-protein crop has been harvested from a large scale field trial with a combine harvester for the first time this week.