Arable Scotland 2 July 2020

A brand-new arable event for Scotland

Now in its second year, Arable Scotland aims to bring together the key players in food production from farmers to distillers and exporters to demonstrate and discuss key industry issues such as innovative and sustainable farming.

Find IPM@Hutton in the Virtual Marquee

Following the success of the inaugural event, this year's Arable Scotland is happening online and will major on alternative crops and new markets.

Learning‐induced switching costs in a parasitoid can maintain diversity of host aphid phenotypes although biocontrol is destabilised under abiotic stress

A recent paper shows that a ‘switching penalty’ incurred by parasitoids searching for host aphids could explain stable coexistence of parasitism-resistant and -susceptible aphid phenotypes in the population. The study highlights the importance of understanding diversity within aphid populations and how this influences the efficacy of aphid biocontrol by parasitoid wasps.

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.13189

Inaugural IPM@Hutton and CSC stakeholder group meeting

Over the latter half of 2018, the Integrated Pest and Disease Management Strategic Group (IPM@Hutton) and Centre for Sustainable Cropping at the James Hutton Institute invited representatives of a range of external organisations and associations to form a stakeholder group, with which the IPM and CSC groups can interact, report to and receive feedback from. An inaugural stakeholder meeting was held at the James Hutton Institute on the morning of the 13th of December 2018.

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