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Environmental Labelling of Food
Lewis, Kathleen (2011)An invited conference presentation that discussed the finding of a recent state-of-the-art review into environmental labelling of food that lead to polict recommendations to Defra for teh way forward for the UK. -
Erratum: The impact of climate change on disease constraints on production of oilseed rape (vol 2, pg 143, 2010)
Evans, Neal; Butterworth, Michael H.; Baierl, Andreas; Semenov, Mikhail A.; West, Jon S.; Barnes, Andrew; Moran, Dominic; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2011-03)Weather data generated for different parts of the UK under five climate change scenarios (baseline, 2020s low CO2 emissions, 2020s high emissions, 2050s low emissions, 2050s high emissions) was inputted into weather-based ... -
Evaluating and adapting the Mediterranean diet for non-Mediterranean populations : a critical appraisal
Hoffman, Richard; Gerber, Mariette (2013)This review discusses the limitations of current techniques for evaluating the Mediterranean diet in non-Mediterranean populations, and how differences between the eating and lifestyle habits of these two populations may ... -
Food and Urbanism : The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
Parham, Susan (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015-02-26)As the title signifies, through both primary and secondary research the book explores aspects of designing cities that support positive food relationships (defined in terms of urbanist and sustainability outcomes) from the ... -
A framework for practical and effective eco-labelling of food products
Tzilivakis, John; Green, Andrew; Warner, Douglas; McGeevor, Kate; Lewis, Kathleen (2012-05-23)Purpose: The pressure on the food industry and society as a whole to evolve towards more sustainable production and consumption has increased in recent years. There are a number of drivers that can help reduce environmental ... -
Genetic basis of control of Rhynchosporium secalis infection and symptom expression in barley
Looseley, M. E.; Newton, A. C.; Atkins, Simon D.; Fitt, Bruce D.L.; Fraaije, B. A.; Thomas, W. T. B.; Keith, R.; Macaulay, M.; Lynott, J.; Harrap, D. (2012)The genetic basis of several different components of resistance to Rhynchosporium secalis in barley was investigated in a mapping population derived from a cross between winter and spring barley types. Both the severity ... -
Identification of New Single Nucleotide Polymorphism-Based Markers for Inter- and Intraspecies Discrimination of Obligate Bacterial Parasites (Pasteuria spp.) of Invertebrates
Mauchline, Tim H.; Knox, Rachel; Mohan, Sharad; Powers, Stephen J.; Kerry, Brian R.; Davies, Keith G.; Hirsch, Penny R. (2011-09)Protein-encoding and 16S rRNA genes of Pasteuria penetrans populations from a wide range of geographic locations were examined. Most interpopulation single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were detected in the 16S rRNA gene. ... -
Identifying integrated options for agricultural climate change mitigation
Tzilivakis, John; Green, Andrew; Lewis, Kathleen; Warner, Douglas (2014-05-13)Purpose: In order to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions it is essential that all industry sectors have the appropriate knowledge and tools to contribute. This includes agriculture, which is considered to ... -
Identifying the Policy Instrument Interactions to Enable the Public Procurement of Sustainable Food
Parsons, Kelly; Barling, David (2022-04-02)A public food procurement policy has been identified as having significant potential to drive food consumption and production towards greater sustainability, delivering social, economic, environmental, and health benefits ... -
The impact of agricultural intensification and land-use change on the European arable flora
Storkey, Jonathan; Meyer, S.; Still, K. S. (2012)The impact of crop management and agricultural land use on the threat status of plants adapted to arable habitats was analysed using data from Red Lists of vascular plants assessed by national experts from 29 European ... -
Impacts of changing air composition on severity of arable crop disease epidemics
Fraaije, B. A.; Chandramohan, P.; Shaw, M. W.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2011-02)This review assesses the impacts, both direct and indirect, of man-made changes to the composition of the air over a 200 year period on the severity of arable crop disease epidemics. The review focuses on two well-studied ... -
Impacts of changing climate and agronomic factors on fusarium ear blight of wheat in the UK
West, Jon S.; Holdgate, Sarah; Townsend, J.A.; Edwards, Simon G.; Jennings, Philip; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2012-02)Climate change will have direct impacts on fusarium ear blight (FEB) in wheat crops, since weather factors greatly affect epidemics, the relative proportions of species of ear blight pathogens responsible and the production ... -
Impacts of climate change on wheat anthesis and fusarium ear blight in the UK
Madgwick, J.W.; West, Jon S.; White, R.P.; Semenov, M.A.; Townsend, J.A.; Turner, J.A.; Fitt, Bruce D.L. (2011)Climate change will affect both growth of agricultural crops and diseases that attack them but there has been little work to study how its impacts on crop growth influence impacts on disease epidemics. This paper investigates ... -
An inter-continental comparison between the environmental histories of two Lake Catchment systems in montane environments of France and South West China
Crook, Darren; Dearing, John; Jones, Richard; Elvin, Mark (2011)Inter-continental comparisons of environmental histories can improve understanding of environmental problems and hazards, and suggest possible actions to promote adaptive capacity and resilience in communities. This paper ... -
A Land Carbon Management Plan for the Wallington Estate
Warner, Douglas; Worrall, F.; Bell, M.; Lewis, Kathleen (National Trust, 2011-02)The National Trust aims to enter the majority of tenanted farms on the Wallington Estate into Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) agreements. The agreements aim to enhance biodiversity, the historic environment, access and ... -
Leptosphaeria maculans isolates with variations in AvrLm1 and AvrLm4 effector genes induce differences in defence responses but not in resistance phenotypes in cultivars carrying the Rlm7 gene
Stotz, Henrik Uwe; Ali, Ajisa Muthayil; de Lope, Lucia Robado; Rafi, Mohammed Sajid; Mitrousia, Georgia Konstantinou; Huang, Yong‐Ju; Fitt, Bruce David Ledger (2023-03-28)BACKGROUND The phoma stem canker pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans is one of the most widespread and devastating pathogens of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in the world. Pathogen colonization is stopped by an interaction of ... -
Living heritage : Universities as anchor institutions in sustainable communities
Parham, Susan; Green, Alix; Lloyd, Sarah (2013)The term ‘heritage’ has many meanings across the English-speaking world, but what is not in doubt is the importance of history as a living tradition. As a channel that connects people imaginatively, often emotionally, with ... -
Market Place : Food Quarters, Design and Urban Renewal in London
Parham, Susan (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012-12)The book explores the revitalisation of food market centred space in social process and urban design terms in contemporary London -
The Mediterranean Diet : Health and Science
Hoffman, Richard; Gerber, Mariette (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Recent large–scale epidemiological studies have confirmed the pre–eminence of the Mediterranean diet for reducing the risk of primary and secondary heart disease and cancer. There is also increasingly convincing evidence ... -
A new RNASeq-based reference transcriptome for sugar beet and its application in transcriptome-scale analysis of vernalization and gibberellin responses
Mutasa-Gottgens, Euphemia; Joshi, Anagha; Holmes, Helen F.; Hedden, Peter; Gottgens, Berthold (2012)Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris sp. vulgaris) crops account for about 30% of world sugar. Sugar yield is compromised by reproductive growth hence crops must remain vegetative until harvest. Prolonged exposure to cold temperature ...