MPhil Agriculture
- Country United Kingdom
- Course Duration 12 month
- Course Type Full Time
- Courses Campus On Campus
- Language Specification IELTS
- Program Level Post-Graduate
- Education Required Graduate
- Admission intake SEP
- Minimum GPA 3.3
Application Charges
| Application Fee | Tution Fee |
|---|---|
| Free | GBP 26,100 |
Application Date
| Application Start Date | Application Closing Date |
|---|---|
|
2022-12-07
|
2023-01-10
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Program Description
Join us for your MPhil or PhD in Agriculture. Our research-active academic staff will support you. Supervision is available in a number of research topics.Crop Science:
Genes and physiological traits, such as:
- resistance to crop pests and diseases
- molecular-assisted selection and breeding methods
- plant environment interactions and their relationships to stress biology
- physiological basis of crop yield and quality
- biotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plants
- herbicide selectivity in cereals and competing weeds
- soil ecology and the contribution of soil biodiversity to soil quality
- soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
- interpretation of soil and landscape processes to improve understanding of recent and historical environmental change
- land degradation processes and their control
- functional biodiversity for control of pest, disease and weed pressure
- long term factorial systems comparison experiments for in-depth study of different aspects of conventional and organic farming systems
- irrigated agriculture
- interactions between land-use and hydrological response in a semi-arid environment
- soil hydrological processes affecting management of salinity in irrigated land
