TResearch: Winter 2006

Table of Contents

• Environment: New challenges for nutrient research: ROGIER SCHULTE explains how Teagasc has adopted a multi-disciplinary approach to the most efficient use of nutrients in the wake of the Nitrates Directive.
• Food: Tracking food poisoning: GERALDINE DUFFY describes how molecular techniques are being employed to track food poisoning bacteria through the food chain.
• News
  • Ireland tops for ag research
  • The Teagasc Vision Programme
  • Walsh Fellow best presenter at BGS
• Features
  • Obesity - the research agenda
  • Innovation at Ashtown
• Environment
  • Mapping the Burren
• Economics
  • The WTO and Irish agriculture
• Food
  • Why do we like creamy foods?
• Livestock
  • Progesterone and embryo survival
  • Breeding for profit
  • Biological control of sheep endoparasites
• Crops
  • The not so humble spud
  • The truth about GM crops
• Horticulture
  • Producing bacteria-free Buddlejas