Fully Funded PhD: Salinity Adaptation for Crop Beet

University of Essex; Essex; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Essex invites applications for a fully-funded ARIES studentship in collaboration with Lion Seeds Ltd. The project combines field ecology, plant ecophysiology and quantitative genetics to study salinity tolerance in sea beet and its sugar beet progeny.

You will gain hands-on experience across academic and commercial breeding settings, with in situ phenotyping, environmental characterization, genomic mapping, and instruction in R and statistical analysis; closing date 16 December

Qualifications

• Background in ecology, plant biology, environmental science, genetics, agricultural science, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• The project will involve in situ phenotyping of wild plants alongside environmental characterisation of habitats (soil salinity, moisture, carbon, nitrogen).

Skills

Field ecology

Plant ecophysiology

Quantitative genetics

Physiological phenotyping

Genetic mapping

R (statistics)

Education

2:1 Bachelor’s degree in Ecology/Plant Biology/Environmental Science or related

Tools

R

Genomic mapping

Job description

The University of Essex invites applications for a fully-funded ARIES studentship in collaboration with Lion Seeds Ltd. The project combines field ecology, plant ecophysiology and quantitative genetics to study salinity tolerance in sea beet and its sugar beet progeny.

You will gain hands-on experience across academic and commercial breeding settings, with in situ phenotyping, environmental characterization, genomic mapping, and instruction in R and statistical analysis; closing date 16 December