A Grass That Could Transform Your Steak: Inside the UK’s Bold Bet on Gene-Edited Ryegrass for Cattle The UK has approved the first outdoor trial of gene-edited ryegrass designed to boost fat cont...
#HealthRevolution #CRISPR #cattle #feed #gene-edited […]
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A Brunsviga calculating machine
2/ As an undergrad at Cambridge he switched from math to statistics after he missed a whole term due to typhoid. With John Wishart he learned computing or "handling data by machinery” which was a Brunsviga calculating machine. He went on to work with Ronald Fisher at #UCL & Yates at #Rothamsted.
#SugaROx, the UK-based crop biostimulant spin-out from #Rothamsted Research and #Oxford University, has secured a £1 million investment to further develop the business. This follows an earlier £2.4m grant from #InnovateUK. #TheMosaicCompany #RegenerateVentures
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Global Mancozeb Summit Highlights Its Vital Role in Crop Protection Before EU Court Hearing #United_Kingdom #Mancozeb #UPL_Corporation #CERSA #Rothamsted
Global Summit on Mancozeb: A Critical Discussion on Crop Protection Ahead of EU Court Hearing #UK #Mancozeb #UPL_Corporation #CERSA #Rothamsted
Timeline cleanse. Roe deer coming close on our morning walk alongside #Rothamsted. Love, love, love where we live!
#Deer #Harpenden #RothamstedResearch #TimelineCleanse #Hertfordshire #Animals @rothamsted.bsky.social @rothamsted-lte.bsky.social
Before #Rothamsted there was Jethro Tull baptized #OTD 1674 (d 21 Feb 1741). Earliest proponent of an empirical approach to agricultural research, he was harshly criticized in his lifetime for his revolutionary rejection of the poetry of Virgil as scientific authority in favour of actual experiments
The #Rothamsted North Wyke Farm Platform #NWFP is now here - follow them at @thefarmplatform.bsky.social. the NWFP is a fab research infrastructure providing >100 million data points from 3 pasture farmlets and 1 housed farm. Well worth a look! #AgSky
OTD 1896 Winifred A Mackenzie b (d 29 Nov 1954) UK. 1st winner of @RoyalStatSoc Frances Wood Memorial Prize. Best known for work at #Rothamsted, including the first systematic description of ANOVA co-authored with RA Fisher in May 1923. /3
#OTD 2000 Oscar Kempthorne d (b 31 Jan 1919) #AmStatNews Fellow 1952, Hon Fellow @RoyalStatSoc, Pres #IBS 1961 fellow #AAAS #ISI. Part of the #Rothamsted group 1941-6. His first course in statistics with John Wishart then reading RA Fisher changed his life /3
Agricultural intensification reduces selection of putative plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in wheat
#ISMEJournal by Tessa Reid et al from Tim Mauchline at #Rothamsted
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View of the stars above a few bare trees. Lower middle shows Orion’s Belt and the rest of that constellation.
Was a good clear night for some star gazing last eve! This 3s exposure on my iPhone shows up more than I can see! #OrionsBelt and more from #Rothamsted
