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within the is offering five fully-funded PhD studentships (3 x and 2 x ) in Agriculture and Food Security.

Each studentship will involve innovative research alongside commercial partners and/or on grower’s holdings, thereby providing a valuable industry-based training opportunity.

You will join a dynamic research grouping comprising seven academics, along with postdoctoral researchers and technical specialists, approximately 15 other PhD students and visiting scientists and students from overseas.

This group has considerable experience in delivering industrially-relevant Plant Science research; the 快播视频 Environment Centre was in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework.  and maintains a high level of engagement in academic-industrial partnerships through, for example, the . The team within the 快播视频 Environment Centre also provides unique business-related training to complement that provided by the commercial partner in each award.

PhD subject areas

Providing sufficient food for a growing world population, while improving the environmental sustainability of agriculture, represents a key challenge for the sector, and requires deploying a diverse range of technologies tuned to specific sectors. The PhDs will be focussed on the following areas of research.

Globally, pests and diseases cause major crop losses, thus the ability to detect their presence before symptoms are normally detected in crops represents an important opportunity for early intervention with biocidal treatments. The . Increasingly though, .

Protected cropping environments provide an opportunity to exclude pests and diseases, and their environment can be tightly regulated to maximise crop productivity. The development of a new generation of greenhouse claddings can bring the crop into production earlier by raising leaf (and possibly meristem) temperatures, but In Northern Europe, greenhouses typically maintain high atmospheric CO₂ concentrations to stimulate plant growth, but temperature regulation of the greenhouse results in CO₂ losses to the atmosphere. .

Despite the increasing sophistication of horticultural production, broadscale arable agriculture will remain vulnerable to climatic fluctuations, causing crop losses. Drought stress is a major constraint on yields worldwide, and especially for Brazilian soya crops, but since there are varied physiological mechanisms limiting pod yield and causing pod abscission, there are .

Application process

We welcome enquiries and applications from well-qualified applicants who wish to join this thriving research community. To apply please read the instructions with each PhD at .Please indicate in your cover letter if you wish to be considered for more than one project.