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BBSRC recognises VSNi success
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has published a short case study recognising the success of VSN International Ltd. You can read the summary here, or the full case study here (PDF). BBSRC is a UK Research Council and NDPB and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience. It predominantly funds scientific [...]
Genomic selection using ASReml
Animal and plant breeding is fast becoming one of the hot topics of the 21st Century. The ability to identify specific traits and use them to improve different species or breeds is important as we try to make sense of a rapidly growing world population, and to provide high quality food [...]
GenStat Discovery Edition 4
VSNi is delighted to announce that we have recently upgraded GenStat Discovery to Edition 4. It is remarkable to think that we are now in our 9th year of providing free research tools to scientists and researchers who, through lack of funds, would not be able to access quality statistical analysis [...]
Halting the invasion
Managing weeds has been an issue for agricultural producers for centuries; consequently there are now a wide variety of techniques used for managing and controlling weeds in an agricultural situation. But in order to successfully control or eliminate any weed farmers need to know which is the most effective and appropriate [...]
The very hungry caterpillar
Ever since attempting to grow our own vegetables with my young children I have been amazed by the decimation caused by caterpillars on crops. At the time my family were engaging in our first gardening experiments and initially we were all delighted to see the range of butterflies in the garden, [...]
KWS value precision and security
For centuries people have been breeding plants, trying to fine-tune individual plants to obtain or change a particular trait. Today plant breeders look at addressing concerns such as drought or environment tolerance, pesticide, herbicide, fungi or bacteria tolerance, improving nutritional value or increasing yields. This, by definition, ranges from “classical” propagation [...]
Vision No 21
Free software in education VSNi is proud to announce the launch of GenStat for Teaching and Learning – a new free product based on the current Genstat 13, but amended to make it suitable for school and undergraduate students. The easy to use GenStat Menu system provides access to a wide [...]
Conservation
VSNi is committed to supporting the protection and sustainable development of our world. We are proud to work with scientists throughout the world on projects aimed at conserving and protecting the natural environment; from understanding animal or plant behaviour to sustainable agriculture. Here’s a short list of the projects we are [...]
Vision No. 20
The plight of the natural world is more and more becoming something of concern; with reports bombarding us about the reduction and potential loss of animals and plants in the wild. Plus the more local the loss or threat to a species is to us the more people are recognising the [...]
It was 25 years ago today
26th November 2010: a GenStat Anniversary It was 25 years ago today that Roger Payne, VSNi’s Chief Scientific and Technical Officer, took over as leader of the Genstat team at its then home, Rothamsted. Back in 1985, Genstat (note – no capital S in those days in the middle of the [...]
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