National Plant Phenomics Centre

18/02/2025

02/02/2025

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31/01/2025

Protecting farm water supplies is key for sustainability! A new mentoring partnership is helping Welsh farmers build resilience & safeguard resources. 🌱🌍

Read more: https://businessnewswales.com/mutual-interest-in-protecting-farm-water-supply-leads-to-mentoring-partnership/

Farming Connect IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University

The ripple effect of positive change is being experienced on farms and other agri-businesses across Wales thanks to the Farming Connect Mentoring

22/08/2024

our latest publication on grains IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University BBSRC

10/07/2024

It was lovely to host enthusiastic children from ysgol Penrhyncoch for a tour of our glasshouse and ‘fun with plants’ activities.

03/07/2024

Want to find out more about oats? why not come along to our Oat Day!

18/04/2024

Always good to have a new crop to challenge our systems, this time elder in a screen. Phenom_UK Research Infrastructure IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University

15/04/2024

While cleaning the IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University notebooks, students from found this plant still pressed between the pages of a book from the 1920s.

05/04/2024

Saying goodbye to Pisit Thamvithayakorn, PhD student from Dr Suwannasai’s lab, Department of Microbiology, Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand, who has been visiting National Plant Phenomics Centre for the past few months. .

03/04/2024

Thank you to John Doonan and Catherine Howarth for explaining to students the fascinating details of the IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University notebooks. These contain a treasure trove of plant breeding data which we hope to unlock with the power of AI.

25/03/2024

students are making the IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University notebooks safe for cataloguing and future use by isolating some which have been contaminated with mould. These will be cleaned over the next few weeks and returned to the collection.

20/03/2024

Hear more about the oat breeding programme at IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xf6s

18/03/2024

students have started to test their cleaning and cataloguing process on the IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University notebooks. This will prepare them for their work over Easter of cleaning and cataloguing more of the collection.

11/03/2024

students this week focused on developing their plan to clean and repackage the IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University plant breeding notebooks.

04/03/2024

students compared IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University hybridization ledgers to the notebook collection this week as they developed the metadata template for their catalogue. Thanks to John Doonan and Eamon Durkan for capturing great photos of the ledgers.

26/02/2024

The students of have spent this week organising the notebooks used by researchers on the plant breeding programme of IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University . Ordering these notebooks now will prepare them for cataloging later in the project.

19/02/2024

from IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University met with students to help decode the Welsh Plant Breeding Station’s ledgers, shedding light on the science behind the project.

12/02/2024

Today begins an exciting new project where Info Studies Aber students, will reveal IBERS - Prifysgol Aberystwyth University’s history in a large unique collection of crop breeding records dating back to the 1920s.