Iain Place
Lead Horticulturalist @Waterside
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Horticulturalist @Waterside
Aberdeenshire, GB
In charge of GACP-level cultivation practices, responsible for all aspects of crop development and quality.Leading the research and development efforts, selecting the best genetics and means of cultivation.
EDUCATION
Aberystwyth University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Urmston Grammar School
10 GCSEs A - C
Harper Adams University
Integrated Pest Management (M.Sc)
The University of Manchester
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)
ABOUT IAIN PLACE
Starting from an initial interest in plant stress responses, I focused on the challenges of producing enough food while reducing the environmental impact of agriculture. This led me to study integrated pest management, and later take on a PhD studentship. There, I researched a means of unlocking new forage grass breeding methodologies made unavailable due to the presence of a self-incompatibility system in grasses. Through bulk segregant analysis and gene mutation impact evaluation, I identified likely candidates for a gene which, when mutated, caused the system to break down. Knowledge of these genes will allow commercial breeders to produce improved varieties of forage grasses more efficiently, enabling them to meet the changing demands of animal production systems in the future. From here, I have taken up a new position at Vertegrow Ltd. as their Lead Horticulturalist. Currently I am responsible for researching new ways to improve crop productivity and the shelf-life of post-harvest produce while working in a vertical hydroponics production system.
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