There are an increasing number of non-native pests and pathogens that are impact the UK’s trees. The decline in a particular tree species will impact a wide range of other species that use that trees species as well as driving changes in ecosystem...
Reduction in the availability and quality of plant food resources through arable intensification and habitat fragmentation has been cited as a major cause of the decline in pollinators in the UK and worldwide, and is likely to have a negative impact...
We have been breeding raspberry varieties for Scotland, UK and Europe for > 40 years. A key trait (conferred by one or more major resistance genes) is for resistance to the main aphid pest, the large raspberry aphid. This strategy has been very...
