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Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 204 Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Exploiting silenced genes to improve wheat breeding

Wheat is the most extensively cultivated crop worldwide and it is used as a critical food resource for more than 2.5 billion people. To accommodate the food request of a growing population, it has been estimated that wheat production should increase by 60% by 2050. Read more

Soil carbon balance in blanket peatland forests

PeatFor Project – Management of peatland forests for climate and biodiversity. In pristine or undrained conditions peatland are long-term sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO. Read more
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Multi-camera machine vision of a whole cattle herd for assessing the impact of interventions for environmental sustainability

Background. While dairy farming is receiving increasingly strong competition from plant-based alternatives, it remains an important agricultural option where grass is the most viable crop, such as in substantial areas of the UK as well as a large slice of world landmass. Read more
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Does time of day predict stress resilience/sensitivity across species?

Background. Evidence is emerging that the timing of a stressful challenge in relation to the individualʼs natural rhythm of hormone secretion, could be influencing the genomic response to stress, and resultant stress coping ability (Mifsud et al., 2021; Sterina et al., 2022). Read more
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Funded PhD SWBio DTP- Understanding how exceptionally high photosynthetic rates are generated

By 2050, yields of major food crops will have to increase by 60-110% to feed the world’s growing population. This challenge must be addressed in the face of climate change, limited availability of arable land, and the plateauing yields of key crops. Read more

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