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Collaborative Training Partnership for Fruit Crop Research (CTP FCR) funded by BBSRC and Industry

Collaborative Training Partnership for Fruit Crop Research (CTP FCR) funded by BBSRC and Industry

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    • Pest & disease ecology
      • SWD push & pull
      • Tri-trophic interactions
      • Biocontrol of cherry brown rot diseases
      • Managing apple replant disease
      • Epidemiology of Cladosporium in raspberry
      • New approaches to control strawberry aphids
    • Genetics
      • Apple root architecture
      • Increased photosynthetic efficiency in strawberry
      • Develop pathogen diagnostic tools
      • Resistance to Phytophthora cactorum
      • Resistance in apple against woolly aphids
      • Making genotyping cheaper and easier
      • Powdery mildew resistance in strawberry fruit
    • Crop physiology
      • Optimising the light recipe
      • Winter dormancy break in apple
      • Towards year-round production of UK strawberries
      • Carbon sequestration of apple rootstocks
    • AI & robotics
      • Algorithm for fruit picking
      • AI recognition of pests and diseases
      • Using AI and robotics to assist decision support
      • Strawberry detection, imaging and deep learning
      • Human-robot interaction
  • PhD opportunities
    • Predict apple fruit ripeness
    • Investigate factors affecting apple canker symptom development
    • Dynamics of apple scab ascospore production
    • Establish molecular resources for effieint raspberry breeding
    • What factors control variation in floral initiation in strawberry?
    • Manipulate stomatal density to improve CO2 uptake in strawberry and blueberry
    • Enhanced gene shuffling in apples and strawberries
    • Genetic control of continuous cropping in strawberry
    • Develop new methods for reducing the juvenility period in trees
    • Overcoming the limitations to yield in strawberry
    • Robotic phenotyping of fruit traits for automatic strawberry harvesting
    • Investigate resistance of aphid pests to biological control
  • News

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PhD Opportunities – 2020

PhD studentships are available to start from October 2020. Detailed topics are provided under “PhD opportunities”.

Application deadline: 28 February 2020

Author Xiangming XuPosted on January 26, 2020January 26, 2020

New studentships available

Six PhD studentships are available to start from October 2018. Application deadline: 26 March 2018

Author Xiangming XuPosted on February 15, 2018February 15, 2018

New studentships available

Three additional PhD studentships under the NPIF (national productivity investment fund) scheme are available. These three four-year PhD studentships available to start from October 2017.

Author Xiangming XuPosted on June 19, 2017February 15, 2018
  • Home
  • About us
  • Funding organisations
  • Research providers
  • Current projects
    • Pest & disease ecology
      • SWD push & pull
      • Tri-trophic interactions
      • Biocontrol of cherry brown rot diseases
      • Managing apple replant disease
      • Epidemiology of Cladosporium in raspberry
      • New approaches to control strawberry aphids
    • Genetics
      • Apple root architecture
      • Increased photosynthetic efficiency in strawberry
      • Develop pathogen diagnostic tools
      • Resistance to Phytophthora cactorum
      • Resistance in apple against woolly aphids
      • Making genotyping cheaper and easier
      • Powdery mildew resistance in strawberry fruit
    • Crop physiology
      • Optimising the light recipe
      • Winter dormancy break in apple
      • Towards year-round production of UK strawberries
      • Carbon sequestration of apple rootstocks
    • AI & robotics
      • Algorithm for fruit picking
      • AI recognition of pests and diseases
      • Using AI and robotics to assist decision support
      • Strawberry detection, imaging and deep learning
      • Human-robot interaction
  • PhD opportunities
    • Predict apple fruit ripeness
    • Investigate factors affecting apple canker symptom development
    • Dynamics of apple scab ascospore production
    • Establish molecular resources for effieint raspberry breeding
    • What factors control variation in floral initiation in strawberry?
    • Manipulate stomatal density to improve CO2 uptake in strawberry and blueberry
    • Enhanced gene shuffling in apples and strawberries
    • Genetic control of continuous cropping in strawberry
    • Develop new methods for reducing the juvenility period in trees
    • Overcoming the limitations to yield in strawberry
    • Robotic phenotyping of fruit traits for automatic strawberry harvesting
    • Investigate resistance of aphid pests to biological control
  • News
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