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We have 57 crop PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Crop Type Classification Using Optical Remote Sensing

University of Reading Department of Computer Science

Crop type mapping at the field level is necessary for a variety of applications in agricultural monitoring and food security. In this thesis, the goal is to develop a suitable deep neural network architecture that could detect different crop types in remote sensing images. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Shahzad, Dr H Wei

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Does fertilizer placement play a key role in crop establishment?

University of Nottingham School of Biosciences

BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership, Researcher Academy. Polyhalite is the first new mineral fertilizers for crop production in 75 years. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Sturrock

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Developing novel transition metal complexes to enhance crop yields

Imperial College London Institute of Chemical Biology

This studentship will explore novel synthetic chemistry and chemical biological routes to tackle the global challenge of food security, by developing molecular tools, with the potential to transform crop security across the globe. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Barter, Dr R Woscholski, Prof N Long

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Doctoral (PhD) position in Crop Microbiome Research - impact of wheat genotype and fungal effectors on the pathogen-microbiome interactions

University College Dublin School of Biology and Environmental Science

Wheat production is hampered by many factors, not least diseases such as Fusarium head blight (FHB). Read more

Supervisor: Prof F M Doohan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

BARIToNE: Barley productivity and nitrogen losses under climate change in Scotland (Project code 24F)

The James Hutton Institute PhD Opportunities

Supervisors. Lead supervisor - Dr Mike Rivington, James Hutton Institute. Second supervisor - Prof John Rowan, University of Dundee. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Rivington, Prof J Rowan, Dr D Sparkes

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

BARIToNE: Barley productivity and nitrogen losses under climate change in Scotland (Project code 24F)

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Supervisors. Lead supervisor - Dr Mike Rivington, James Hutton Institute. Second supervisor - Prof John Rowan, University of Dundee. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Rivington, Prof J Rowan, Dr D Sparkes

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Self funded PhD in Biology: Exploring Novel Protein Families for Sustainable Crop Protection

University of York Department of Biology

Lead supervisor: Dr Federico Sabbadin. Co-Supervisor: Prof S Sweeney. The student will be registered with the Department of Biology. Read more

Supervisors: Dr F Sabbadin, Prof S Sweeney

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Developing synthetic microbial communities for the control of pea downy mildew

University of Worcester Research School

Demand for food production is increasing due to growing global population, reduced land availability for agriculture, concern over the effects of the environment on agriculture, and decreasing yield reliability because of climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Tor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-funded PhD in Biology: Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks To Enhance Crop Disease Resistance

University of York Department of Biology

Lead supervisor: Prof K Denby . Co-Supervisor: Dr B R Lichman. The student will be registered with the Department of Biology. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Denby, Dr B R Lichman

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Last chance to apply

Ensuring a social license to operate for the use of RNA based bio pesticides for agriculture

Curtin University Curtin Institute for Energy Transition

The Australia Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection is taking on the global challenge of transforming crop protection technology by delivering non-GM, non- toxic RNAi based fungicides for specific fungal diseases of crops. Read more

Supervisor: Prof PA Ashworth

24 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Understanding the soil microbiome under controlled light conditions

University of Greenwich Faculty of Engineering and Science

Our research group is working within a consortium that is testing semi-transparent solar installations on crop growth-houses, to enhance biological and financial resilience in protected farming. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C.V.S. Supamaniam, Dr E Thompson

24 June 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Sustainable Precision Farming: An Explainable Self-Supervised Generative Learning Approach Leveraging the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRTS) and Digital Twin

Atlantic Technological University Research

The Postgraduate Research Programme MedAgriTech AI eXcellence (MATX) offers 12 PhD research scholarships to commence in 2024. Each project will include an enterprise placement of minimum 12 weeks duration. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Henna, Dr S Gharbia, Dr EF Furey

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Unlocking the genetic potential of barley by modulating recombination

University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology

Barley is a major worldwide crop used for malting and animal feed. However, breeding new varieties is constrained by the frequency of genetic crossovers (1-3 crossovers per chromosome pair) and their distribution (biased towards the chromosome ends) that underpin crop improvement1,2. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Higgins, Dr D Guttery

23 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Plant Nematology

University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

Introduction. The Plant Nematology Laboratory is an internationally recognised group working to understand the interactions between parasitic nematodes and their plant hosts. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P E Urwin, Dr C Bell, Dr C Lilley

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Circular production of phosphorous fertiliser – anaerobic digestate matrix effects on recovery efficacy

Harper Adams University Department of Agriculture and Environment

Introduction to research area. The application of animal slurries and anaerobic digestates to land to provide crop nutrients is facing ever increasing regulatory constraints influencing how they are stored and spread to land. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MK Kirby

17 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Genetics of flowering shoot temperature responses in plants

Durham University Department of Biosciences

The shape of plants is shaped by both genetics and environment; changes in response to temperature can be the most dramatic of all. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Hepworth

3 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

MSc by Research: Speeding up the plant microbiota: investigating the impact of speed breeding on host-microbe interactions in the barley rhizosphere

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Feeding a growing world population amid climatic modifications and international conflicts represents an unprecedent challenge for crop production. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Bulgarelli, Dr C Campoli

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism

University of Liverpool Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

The world is getting hotter and drier due to climate change, and the human population is growing rapidly. Furthermore, it has been predicted that we will need to increase crop yields by 50 - 70 % by 2050 in order to feed the predicted 9 - 10 billion people. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Hartwell, Dr P Walley

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency - Engineering and Evolution of Light-Harvesting Complexes via Synthetic Biology

University of Liverpool Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology

Photosynthesis is the ultimate source of food and energy for almost all forms of life. Using sunlight as the energy input, photosynthesis removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere generating the oxygen and carbohydrate that support complex life. Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Canniffe

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Multimodal remote sensing and Machine Learning for Precision Agriculture

University of Strathclyde Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

With the world population expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050, the demand for food and agricultural products will rise significantly in the coming years. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Cardona, Dr C Tachtatzis

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Last chance to apply

Mapping auxin transport and metabolism in roots of monocot plants

Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Experimental Botany

EU-funded PhD position on auxin transport and metabolism in plant roots. . Mapping auxin transport and metabolism in roots of monocot plants. Read more

Supervisor: Dr JP Petrasek

21 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Optimising Transient Carbohydrate Partitioning in Wheat to Improve Climate Resilience

Harper Adams University Department of Agriculture and Environment

Elucidating the diversity and flexibility of plant metabolism is a key avenue of research in the pursuit of malleable traits to enhance plant productivity (Paul, 2021). Read more

Supervisor: Dr AWL Watson-Lazowski

17 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Doctoral (PhD) position - impact of biocontrol agents on diseases of ryegrass

University College Dublin School of Biology and Environmental Science

Irish agriculture is mainly grassland-based, and is key to the success of the dairy, beef, and sheep sectors. The Irish Climate Action Plan, the EU Green Deal, and the EU Farm to Fork strategy has placed ambitious reduction targets for the use of chemical inputs in the form of fertilisers and pesticides in grasslands. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F M Doohan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

BOOSTING C4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS BY ALTERING PEP CARBOXYLASE

Western Sydney University Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

ABOUT THE PROJECT. The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE) is offering a research scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work within a research group addressing how to improve the primary carboxylase of C4 photosynthesis. Read more

Supervisor: Dr RS Sharwood

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Bidirectional mobile sRNA signalling in pea-downy mildew interactions

University of Worcester Research School

Plants are constantly being challenged by microbial pathogens and they have evolved the capacity to detect and defend against these incoming microbes. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Tor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

A 3D-Printed Blood-Brain-Barrier-on-a-Chip for Agrochemical Permeability Studies – CASE Studentship

University of Liverpool Department of Physics

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) tightly regulates the flow of material between the bloodstream and the brain. One of the big problems faced by a range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to agrochemicals, is understanding how compounds interact with and cross this barrier. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Forth, Dr D Dickens

1 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

MSc by Research: Regulation of Architecture in Barley

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Plant architecture, or body plan, plays a key role in determining grain yield of crop plants. However, we have little understanding of the molecular genetic basis of architecture in the temperate cereals such as barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), especially in comparison to the warm weather crops such as rice (Oryza sativa). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S McKim

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Enhancing meiotic recombination in wheat by modulating RECQ helicases

University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology

Wheat accounts for 20% of the calories and protein consumed by humans and is the largest crop in the UK, but yields have plateaued and are susceptible to decline due to extreme weather conditions. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Higgins, Dr D Guttery

23 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Self-funded PhD- Exploring the Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogen Entry and Colonization in Plants through Wounds

University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences

How bacterial pathogens enter and colonise plant via wounds?. Wounding of plants by hard wind, hail, heavy rain, sand storms, and frost is common in nature. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Buscaill, Dr A Bailey

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Untangling the role of beta-1,3 glucan polymers in intercellular communication

University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

Apply to join the Benitez-Alfonso team in their quest to dissect the mechanisms underpinning the function of beta-1,3 glucan polymers in plant growth and development. . Read more

Supervisor: Dr Y Benitez-Alfonso

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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