Tag: Diversity from Genes to Landscape

Data from wheat populations supplied for baking trials over a number of different years and bakeries.

This Research webinar gives an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policymakers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.

In this short video, Prof. Martin Wolfe discusses using multiple varieties of wheat (modern & traditional) in the same crop and the outcomes.

Winter wheat variety performance in organic and conventional farming systems and the potential for organic plant breeding in the UK

Selecting winter wheat lines from a composite
cross population

Data set for variety trial of 22 quinoa cultivars at Wakelyns

Genetically diverse wheat populations show greater yield stability and resilience under stress – especially in organic systems – highlighting their potential for sustainable farming in a changing climate.

One sheet of data with results of grain analysis from population trials against standards in 2014/2015 season

Field lab, at Wakelyns Agroforestry, on growing quinoa organically in the UK, in conjunction with the DIVERSIFOOD project.

This video is from National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC15) at Shimpling Park Farms 7th July 2015, when ORC launched its new wheat ‘variety’ ORC Wakelyns Population.
The Organic Research Centre has pioneered an evolutionary breeding programme to produce a hugely diverse population of wheat suited to organic and low-input farming systems. This year, for the first time, ORC is marketing it as ORC Wakelyns Population.

Cereals population data set from trials at Wakelyns and Shimpling Park Farm from November 2014.

This dataset from the AGFORWARD project contains cereal population yields from different beds in agroforestry alleys during the 2015 season.

Overview of the SOLIBAM project given to ORC staff in internal meeting

Adaptive winter wheat populations: development, genetic characterisation and application. Final report.

Data file from 2013 plot trials of winter wheat populations

Excel spreadsheet with data from oat variety trials as part of the QUOATS (Harnessing new technologies for sustainable oat production and utilisation) project between 2009-2012.

Excel spreadsheet with additional data from oat variety trials as part of the QUOATS project between 2009-2012.

Research poster introducing the aims of the COBRA project and its aims to support and develop organic plant breeding and seed production in Europe and to unleash the potential of plant genetic diversity for organic agriculture

Drilling the cereal plot trials in Autumn 2013. Over 300 plots all drilled in a day. Fingers crossed for another good year!

Baking quality of two winter wheat CCPs in the UK

Photos from our work at Wakelyns – harvesting plot trials in August 2013

This is the final report of the 60-month QUOATS project, including results and discussions from ORC oat organic agronomy trials at Wakelyns

This report was written by Nick Fradgley from the QUOATS trials at Wakelyns which evaluated eight oat varieties grown under organic conditions over four seasons