Author: Sandra Dancer
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Novel crops in the spotlight: NUCNet Project Lead talks to the press
NUCNet Project Lead Mark Chapman, University of Southampton, has recently contributed to articles in the Financial Times and The i Paper exploring the potential for novel and underutilised crops in the UK. In the Financial Times article Dry British summers…
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NUCNet In-Focus Meeting: Commercial interest and expansion of NUCs into markets
Executive summary How can novel and underutilised crops move from promising ideas to viable markets? This meeting brought together perspectives from across the food system to explore the connected challenges of production, processing, supply chains, consumer demand and investment. The…
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NUCNet In-Focus Meeting: Nutritional Diversity of NUCs Globally and in the UK
Thank you to John Hammond, NUCNet Co-Lead, and Alice English, Senior Project Officer for Local Food Systems at The Food Foundation, for co-hosting NUCNet’s first In-Focus Meeting. We were delighted to welcome so many network members and to benefit from…
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Publication: Bringing underutilised crops into the mainstream:
NUCNet co-Lead Pete Iannetta from the James Hutton Institute, has a publication to share with members. Bringing underutilised crops into the mainstream: Global food production depends heavily on wheat, maize and rice, despite the thousands of other edible crops available.…
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Bulrush Takes the Prize in Groundswell’s Novel Crops Challenge
NUCNet member Colin Tosh, Senior Agroforestry Researcher, Organic Research Centre reports on Groundswell’s “8 Minute Ideas on ‘Novel Use’ Crops” session. What might British farmers grow in the future? That was the question behind Groundswell’s lively “8 Minute Ideas on…
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Bio-Innovation Translation Ecosystem in Cambridge
Network member Aleks Szopinska from ClearGate has this news to share with members. Together with a group of research and industry experts, ClearGate have established a new approach and platform to accelerate new product developments and foster successful collaborations between…
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Publication: Field-based assessment of sowing date-induced temperature stress on growth, sensitivity, and yield of four cucurbit species
NUCNet member Kakul Smiti, PhD Research Scholar, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India has a publication to share with members. This study investigates how sowing date-induced temperature stress influences the growth, temperature sensitivity, and yield of…
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The Pulse Crop Genetic Improvement Network (PCGIN) Stakeholder Meeting and Publication
NUCNet member Janneke Balk (PCGIN Management Team) would like to share their networks’ upcoming stakeholder meeting that will take place on 4 February 2027 at the John Innes Centre. A dedicated event page has been created on the PCGIN website,…
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Publication: Improving Annotation, Access, and Comparison of Nutritional Composition Data for Underutilised Crops
NUCNet member Dr Guillermina Mendiondo, Assistant Professor, Plant and Crop Sciences in Translational Agriculture, University of Nottingham would like to share this publication with members. Diversifying our food systems: New data framework makes nutritional information on underutilised crops more accessible…
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