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HGCA Research

There are a number of research projects funded by HGCA that have relevance to climate change.

Climate Change

• 3214 Adapting wheat to global warming
• 3233 Improving water use efficiency and drought tolerance in UK winter wheats

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of agriculture

• 2979 Genetic reduction of energy use and emissions of nitrogen in cereal production (GREEN grain)
• PR438 Optimising fertiliser nitrogen levels for modern cereal crops 
• 3116 Breeding oilseed rape with a low requirement for nitrogen fertiliser
• 3287 Better estimation of the efficiency of use of soil nitrogen
• 3169 Reducing the risk of diffuse pollution by improved assessment of the nutrient content in farm manures and biosolids (Details of this project will be available soon)
• 3211 Predicting grain protein in order to assure breadmaking quality and minimise diffuse pollution from wheat production (Details of this project will be available soon)

Publications

• Project Report No. 422 - Effects of compost on yields of winter wheat and barley, sugar beet, onion and swede in the fourth and fifth years of a rotation

Industrial uses section 
(for projects relating to renewables to replace petroleum bases products)

• Bioethanol greenhouse gas calculator