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Across the world we face growing issues of food security and nutrition. Agri-science is one of the eight great technologies where the UK can link research strength to practical application to farming practices and the food industry. This project focuses on improving outcomes in primary production, and hence food security, by using advanced technologies to...

Weed control is becoming increasingly difficult due to herbicide resistant weeds and restriction of herbicides due to higher regulatory demands. In cereals, herbicide resistant blackgrass is a severe problem with no good solution and weed control in minor crops, such as vegetables, is now extremely problematic as older herbicides have been de-registered. ...

Unilever, Syngenta and Infineum, together with STFC Daresbury and Novidec, have recognised the potential of mesoscale modelling to drive a radical change in speed of formulated product design for manufacturability and in-use performance. Although applications to both material and manufacturing process design have been demonstrated, modelling is not always...

Chemical processes catalysed with Palladium (Pd) compounds, and based on Nobel-prize winning methods, have become essential for the production of life-enhancing pharmaceuticals & chemicals. These processes underpin global manufacturing worth more than £10billion each year for pharmaceuticals alone. However, the components of the Pd-catalyst must be recove...

Chiral amines are important building blocks used in 40% pharmaceutical products, 20% of crop protection compounds and are high value chemical intermediates. Current synthetic methods use wasteful resolution processes. This project will improve manufacturing efficiency by developing catalytic (transfer) hydrogenation methods to make specific types of chira...

Project Title: Accelerating Discovery by Mining and Visualising Integrated Chemogenomics Data Name: Mark Forster Orgaisation : Syngenta Project Description: This Syngenta and Rothamsted colaboration project, has a focus on extending the Ondex data integration toolkit by adding 'chemical intelligence' to the existing software toolkit. This will provide enh...

The Smart Emulsion Project is a collaborative project between Syngenta, the University of Birmingham and the National Physical Laboratory and is part funded by the Technology Strategy Board. Emulsions offer a convenient way to formulate hydrophobic active ingredients. However, typical emulsions are not often optimised in terms chemical and physical proper...

The project will enable growers to produce more food with fewer inputs, through an integrated farm management strategy. This optimises the Crop Protection (CP) using a network of in-field biosensors which then interact to form a UK, and international, infrastructure. This will be combined with the dual-action disease control and crop enhancement offered b...

This project will enable efficacy and environmental protection to be optimised for soil-applied pesticides, supporting rational product design and regulatory approval. Simulation models are the primary basis for regulating pesticides against EU ground- and surface-water protection standards, but the current models cannot explicitly represent plants or the...

Project partners Barrier Biotech Ltd (BB), Syngenta Ltd (SYN) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) applied for funding to develop novel nematocide products based on plant oil formulations. These formulations will target nematodes affecting arable root crops and substitute existing commercial nematicides coming off the market due to changes in the Plant Protect...

To transfer skills in data integration and data mining, applied to business-relevant issues in product safety, particularly in the field of predictive toxicology.

Crystallisation is the most important means of purifying high value chemical products and then delivering them into forms that can be efficiently formulated. Crystal Growth Modifiers (CGM), are molecular analogues of the active ingredient co-generated in synthesis or additives incorporated into the formulation that strongly influence the crystal formation...