BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Details of the 12 projects to be funded under the Sustainable Agriculture Research for International Development (SARID) intitiative with the Department for International Development. SARID aims to address the challenges of agriculture and food security in developing countries.
- Award winner: Howard Atkinson
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £524,216.21
Nematode-resistant plantain for African subsistence growers
- Award winner: Lesley Boyd
Institution: John Innes Centre
Value: £563,389
Assessment of genetic biodiversity of durable disease resistance in African wheat genotypes, leading to the development of markers for wheat breeding
- Award winner: Matthew Dickinson
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £355,683.94
Phytoplasma diseases of coconuts: understanding their transmission, and the sustainable breeding of resistant and tolerant varieties
- Award winner: Richard Gibson
Institution: Natural Resources Institute
Value: £601,901.42
How resistant plant varieties avoid suppression of RNA silencing by viruses as exemplified by sweet potato: better food security through virus control
- Award winner: Paul Hand
Institution: University of Warwick
Value: £602,937.89
Accelerated breeding of black rot-resistant brassicas for the benefit of East African smallholders
- Award winner: Tony Hooper
Institution: Rothamsted Research
Value: £620,876.83
Towards incorporating the biosynthetic transformation required for Striga inhibition from Desmodium into edible legume intercrops
- Award winner: Brian Kerry
Institution: Rothamsted Research
Value: £408,307.66
Nutrient regulation of the saprotroph to parasite transition in Pochonia chlamydosporia, a soil microbial inoculant for nematode control
- Award winner: Andrew Meharg
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £657,328.22
Characterising genetic and soil-induced variation in arsenic uptake, translocation and metabolism in rice to mitigate arsenic contamination in Asia
- Award winner: Wayne Powell
Institution: National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Value: £607,806.88
Cis-acting regulatory elements in the rice genome: a novel source of alleles for rice breeding
- Award winner: Julie Scholes
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £596,880.06
Unravelling the molecular genetic basis of Striga resistance in cereals: integrating Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) and genomic approaches
- Award winner: Kenneth Wilson
Institution: University of Lancaster
Value: £617,328.13
Understanding the mechanisms of persistence and dispersal of an insect pathogen and its potential for novel strategic control of African armyworms
- Award winner: Rattan Yadav
Institution: Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
Value: £634,859.42
Integrating genomics and mapping approaches to improve pearl millet productivity in drought-prone regions of Africa and Asia
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH
Seven partnerships between National Health Service organisations and universities have been announced. The Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) will share £64 million to conduct research and to improve care in major conditions.
- Lead NHS organisation: University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Academic partner: University of Birmingham
Collaboration: Birmingham and Black Country Collaboration
- Lead NHS organisation: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Academic partners: University of Leeds and University of York
Collaboration: Leeds York Bradford Research Alliance (LYBRA)
- Lead NHS organisation: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Academic partner: University of Leicester
Collaboration: Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland CLAHRC
- Lead NHS organisation: Salford Teaching Primary Care Trust
Academic partner: University of Manchester
Collaboration: Manchester CLAHRC
- Lead NHS organisation: Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
Academic partner: Imperial College London
Collaboration: North West London CLAHRC
- Lead NHS organisation: NHS South West
Academic partners: University of Exeter, University of Plymouth, Peninsula Medical School
Collaboration: South West Peninsula Clinical Research Collaboration
- Lead NHS organisation: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Academic partners: University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University
Collaboration: South Yorkshire Applied Research and Care Consortium (SYARCC).
