Tozer Seeds Limited

To advance and integrate genomics technologies to accelerate the speed and efficiency of celery breeding programmes. Employing genomic analyses to develop marker-assisted selection protocols that optimise the integration of favourable agronomic and consumer traits into superior celery varieties.

To deploy two ground-breaking technologies to substantially increase the speed, scale and efficiency of vegetable breeding: footprint-free gene editing and reduced generation time through manipulating day length and temperature.

Free Living Nematodes (FLN) are emerging as a major problem for UK potato growers, exacerbated in the short term by removal of approved nematicides and in the long-term by expected population increases due to climate change. FLN cause direct damage by feeding on potato roots reducing yields and quality, and indirectly by transmitting Tobacco Rattle Virus ...

Control of soilborne pathogens such as Verticillium wilt has become a major problem in UK horticulture since withdrawal of the broad-spectrum chemical fumigant methyl bromide. A previous project involving the RTO's investigated biofumigant green crops as replacements for methyl bromide. Cultivation and incorporation of biofumigant crops proved difficult, ...