Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in September 

This course examines crop improvement through advances in resource use efficiency, and modern crop improvement and breeding techniques.

Focusing upon the understanding of plant to crop systems, and with an emphasis on research training, the course is ideally suited to those wishing to pursue careers in research institutes, plant breeding, agro-industry and advance to higher research degree (PhD) study.

• The School of Biosciences is one of the largest and strongest Schools of its kind in the UK
• The School has consistently achieved high ratings in independent UK assessments of both research and teaching quality. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed our top position in the UK in terms of research power and we received 23/24 in the latest Teaching Quality Assessment
• Specialist facilities include modern glasshouses and controlled environment growth rooms in which plants and tissue cultures can be raised, together with excellent facilities for fieldwork
• The School also has a Tropical Crops Research Unit in which computer controlled glasshouses are available for research on a range of tropical species
• While the course is based at The University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus, you will have an opportunity to visit growers, research stations and other academic institutions
  

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