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from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre is to give a keynote lecture entitled 'Pre-breeding Research to Support Sustainable Farming of Onion' at the to be held from 21-24 May 2012 in ACROS FUKUOKA, Japan.

A plant disease normally found in subarctic climates has been identified for the first time in the UK in buttercups as far south as Herefordshire. Sclerotinia subarctica, a fungus known to affect both crops and wild plants, has also been found in carrots and meadow buttercups in Perthshire by plant scientists at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Crop Centre in the School of Life Sciences at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½. It is closely related to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum which commonly causes disease in crop plants such as lettuce, carrot and oilseed rape. In carrots, both fungi infect the foliage and can travel down the leaves and invade the crown of the carrot, causing them to rot in the ground or in store once they have been harvested.