Recommended List disease coordination

Tender description

The AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) for cereals and oilseeds are the definitive industry guide to cereal and oilseed varieties, giving levy-payers the information they need to select the correct variety for their businesses. The data underpinning the Recommended Lists are based on the evaluation of field performance of a range of varieties of crops under cultivation in the UK. Genetic resistance to plant diseases in an important character and this is assessed on plots through natural infection and also on small plots inoculated with specific diseases. Over-years data from natural infection and inoculated plots are used to determine 1 to 9 ratings that are used to describe disease resistance on the RL tables. This tender covers the provision of pathology expertise and assistance to the RL Team in the production and review of disease ratings for cereals and oilseeds from 1 April 2018 to 31 December 2021, (covering harvests 2018 to 2021). The tenderer will work with the RL Team to ensure that the disease testing programme is conducted to a high-level of technical competence and to agreed protocols.