Agriculture PhD

Newcastle University

Our range of agriculture research areas relates to crop science, soil science, ecological (organic) agriculture, and agricultural water management.Crop scienceGenes and physiological traits, such as:resistance to crop pests and diseasesmolecular-assisted selection and breeding methodsplant environment interactions and their relationships to stress biologyphysiological basis of crop yield and qualitybiotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plantsherbicide selectivity in cereals and competing weedsSoil scienceSoil ecology and the contribution of soil biodiversity to soil quality.Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.Interpretation of soil and landscape processes to improve understanding of recent and historical environmental change.Land degradation processes and their control.Ecological (organic) agricultureFunctional biodiversity for control of pest, disease and weed pressure.Long-term factorial systems comparison experiments for in-depth study of different aspects of conventional and organic farming systems.Agricultural water managementIrrigated agriculture.Interactions between land-use and hydrological response in a semi-arid environment.Soil hydrological processes affecting the management of salinity in irrigated land.

School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (Agriculture)