Crops project receives funding

Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network sponsors Harper Adams researchResearchers at Harper Adams University College have been awarded funding to complete a project that looks at the plant disease club root. The research, ‘conducting preliminary investigations on the effect of growing and incorporating biofumigant plants in soil infested with Plasmodiophora brassicae (club root)’, is sponsored by the Biosciences Knowledge Transfer Network. They have awarded Harper Adams £5,000 through the SPARK Award initiative, a series of fixed value grants paid to encourage collaboration between the