Flagship Project 3

FieldCAM-Quant, a low-cost, accessible tool for field phenotyping globally

16 March 2022

One of the consequences of the Global COVID-19 pandemic was the impact on the availability of migrant labour. This was particularly felt in agricultural and agricultural research, particularly in India. For a new variety of a crop to be produced and come to market it first needs to be assessed under numerous field...

What does it take for plants to recover from drought?

12 October 2021

Plants need water to grow. An obvious but an often ignored fact when people contemplate agriculture. The simple reality is that if a crop doesn’t get the water it requires, yields will be reduced and, with climate change, a lot of crops now aren’t getting the water they need. Drought is therefore a serious problem facing...

TIGR2ESS wins the Vice-Chancellor’s Collaboration Award!

11 October 2021

The TIGR2ESS project, led by Professor Howard Griffiths, Head of the Department's Physiological Ecology Research Group , has won the Vice Chancellor's Collaboration Award. The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards recognise outstanding achievement, innovation and creativity in devising and implementing...

Dr Mohammad Shamshad

Dr Robert Jackson

Silver linings: The researchers who carried on working during lockdown

31 August 2020

Lockdown has stopped much research, not just for TIGR2ESS, but across the world. However, some of our researchers have been fortunate enough to continue their work. Here, Rob Jackson (NIAB, Cambridge) and Himanshu Sharma (Punjab Agricultural University) from Flagship Project 3 , describe how lockdown has affected their research.

Adventures in R: Reflections on the TIGR2ESS workshop on “R for Genomics and Data Mining”

28 March 2019

Two TIGR2ESS Flagship Programmes recently joined forces to deliver an intensive hands-on training workshop for 50 early career researchers working on a range of plant and crop science projects.