Team profile

Mr Dominic Amos

Job title:

Senior Crops Researcher

Academic qualifications:

  • Diploma Agriculture (Royal Agricultural University).
  • BSc Chemistry (Durham University)

Role and responsibilities:

Currently involved in the following projects:

  • DIVERSIFOOD; Embedding crop diversity and networking for local high quality food systems
  • WHEALBI; Wheat and barley Legacy for Breeding Improvement
  • OK-Net Arable; Organic Knowledge Network Arable
  • OSCAR; Optimise Subsidiary Crop Application in Rotations

Research interests:

Sustainable crop production: Cover/companion cropping, crop rotation diversity, tillage systems and soil health.

Publications:

Costanzo A, Amos D, Bickler C, Trump A (2021) Agronomic and genetic assessment of organic wheat performance in England: a field-scale cultivar evaluation with a network of farms. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 41, 54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-021-00706-y

Contact:

+44 (0)1488 646243
(Ext : 6243)