Agriculture PhD

Our range of agriculture research areas relates to crop science, soil science, ecological (organic) agriculture, and agricultural water management.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>**Crop science**<br/>Genes and physiological traits, such as:<br/>- resistance to crop pests and diseases<br/><br/><br/>- molecular-assisted selection and breeding methods<br/><br/><br/>- plant environment interactions and their relationships to stress biology<br/><br/><br/>- physiological basis of crop yield and quality<br/><br/><br/>- biotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plants<br/><br/><br/>- herbicide selectivity in cereals and competing weeds<br/><br/><br/>**Soil science**<br/>- soil ecology and the contribution of soil biodiversity to soil quality<br/><br/><br/>- soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics<br/><br/><br/>- interpretation of soil and landscape processes to improve understanding of recent and historical environmental change<br/><br/><br/>- land degradation processes and their control<br/><br/><br/>**Ecological (organic) agriculture**<br/>- functional biodiversity for control of pest, disease and weed pressure<br/><br/><br/>- long term factorial systems comparison experiments for in-depth study of different aspects of conventional and organic farming systems<br/><br/><br/>**Agricultural water management**<br/>- irrigated agriculture<br/><br/><br/>- interactions between land-use and hydrological response in a semi-arid environment<br/><br/><br/>- soil hydrological processes affecting management of salinity in irrigated land<br/><br/><br/>Find out more about our current research www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/our-research/agriculture