2019 AFCP Student Forum
The 2019 AFCP Forum held at the University of Reading in April, showcased the wide variety of topics covered by students in the agrifood area; all these students are in part funded by AFCP member charities.
The opportunity for students to meet their counterparts from across the sector and learn of the research taking place in a huge variety of fields is invaluable.
Many of the posters presented are available here:
Alex Ansell (Cranfield University) Variable rate application:using 3D imagery to understand deposition of plant protection products in wheat canopies
Dr Amey Brassington (University of Nottingham) Dietary and genetic regulation of B12 metabolism in sheep
Dr Anthony Millington (Harper Adams University) An investigation into the effect of traffic and tillage on soil properties using X-ray computed tomography
Asna Javaid (University of Herts) Effects of fungicides on severity of phoma leaf spot and phoma stem canker on winter oilseed rape in field experiments
Caroline Best (Harper Adams University) Appraising the use of footrot vaccination as a tool to control footrot in UK sheep flocks
Dimitra Angelopoulou (University of Nottingham) Understanding the role of photoprotection in disease resistance to Septoria tritici blotch in wheat
George Crane (University of Cambridge) Fostering beneficial soil microbial communities through cover crop choices and soil management
Harika Gajula (University of Herts) Identification of new virulent races in Leptosphaeria maculans populations on oilseed rape in UK
Helen Brabham (Sainsbury Laboratory and University of East Anglia) Dissecting Multiple Pathogen Recognition at the Mla locus in Barley
James Fortune (University of Herts) Interspecific interactions between fungus pathogens causing light leaf spot and phoma stem canker in vitro
James Price (University of St Andrews) Molecular characterisation of eggshells from the potato cyst nematode
John McDonagh (University of Nottingham) Using image analysis to monitor cow (and calf) fitness
Joseph Crosby (Harper Adams University) Investigating the resistance of UK oats to Fusarium langsethiae
Lucy Tillier (University of Nottingham) Canopy architecture and RUE in sugar beet
Magda Kaczorowska-Dolowy (Harper Adams University) The effect of controlled traffic farming systems and low inflation pressure tyres on soil properties and crop development for 3 tillage systems
Nikolaos Koukiasis (University of Reading) Targeted droplets reduced herbicide inputs in cabbages by at least 85%
Rafael Pompa (University of Reading) Ecosystem services, financial performance and opportunities for amplifiction of agroforestry
Robyn Rhule-Samuel (University of Herts) An evaluation of ready meals and convenience foods as sources of nutrionally important water-soluble vitamins
Rosalind Humphreys (University of St Andrews) Integration of dropping behaviour by pests into integrated pest management
Sarah Shepperd (University of Reading) Soil faunal diversity and soil chemistry under diverse forage mixtures