BPI.VISQUEEN BACKS UV RESEARCH PROJECT

As part of its ongoing product development programme bpi.visqueen recently sponsored Dr Eslam Elfadly’s PhD research project ‘Exploiting plant responses to solar UV radiation in improved protecting cropping systems’. Working in partnership with the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University and Arid Agritec (who specialise in protected crop production in arid climates) this project examined how crop responses to UV light can improve the production of vegetable seedlings during the propagation phase in both temperate and hot climates and how the benefits of exposure to UV light at