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Newcastle University: Agriculture

Institution Newcastle University View institution profile
Department School of Natural and Environmental Sciences
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Study type Research

Summary

Our range of agriculture research areas relates to crop science, soil science, ecological (organic) agriculture, and agricultural water management.

Join us for your MPhil or PhD in Agriculture. Our research-active academic staff will support you. Supervision is available in a number of research topics.

Crop science Genes and physiological traits, such as: - resistance to crop pests and diseases

  • molecular-assisted selection and breeding methods

  • plant environment interactions and their relationships to stress biology

  • physiological basis of crop yield and quality

  • biotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plants

  • herbicide selectivity in cereals and competing weeds

Soil science - soil 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) agriculture - functional 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 management - irrigated agriculture

  • interactions between land-use and hydrological response in a semi-arid environment

  • soil hydrological processes affecting management of salinity in irrigated land

Find out more about our current research www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-research/agriculture

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University is a World Top 140 university (QS World University Rankings 2026) and founding member of the prestigious Russell Group of world-class, research-intensive UK universities.

Committed to excellence, innovation and creativity, it is pioneering solutions that can change the world. Through world-class research it tackles some of the biggest challenges facing society globally, leading in its key strengths of ageing and health, data, cities and place, culture and creative arts, and one planet. The UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2021 assessed its research as world-leading with outstanding impact.

Through high quality teaching it educates …

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