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John Spink
Title Senior Principal Research Officer
Job Remit Crop agronomy and crop physiology
Phone Number +353 (0) 599170250/+353(0)872043892
Email John.Spink@Teagasc.ie
   
   
   

 

Research Interest(s)

  • Understanding crop production processes to develop high productivity, resource efficient and economic crop production systems

 

Current projects

  • RMIS 5619 – Economic control of diseases of cereal crops and evaluation of fungicide products

 

Select Publications

  • J H SPINK, T SEMERE, D L SPARKES, J M WHALEY, M J FOULKES, R W CLARE AND R K SCOTT. 2000. Effect of sowing date on the economic optimum plant density of winter wheat. Annals of Applied Biology. 137, 179-188
  • J.H. SPINK, E.J.M. KIRBY, D.L. FROST, R. SYLVESTER-BRADLEY, R.K. SCOTT, M.J FOULKES, R.W. CLARE, E.J. EVANS. 2000. Agronomic implications of variation in wheat development due to variety, sowing date, site and season. Plants, varieties and seeds. 13, 91-105.
  • SPINK, J. and BERRY, P. (2005) Yield of UK oilseed rape: Physiological and technological constraints and expectations of progress to 2010. In: Yields of Farmed Species: Constraints and opportunities in the 21st century. Eds R. Sylvester-Bradley and J. Wiseman
  • BERRY, P. and SPINK, J. (2006) A physiological analysis of oilseed rape yields: Past and future. Journal of Agricultural Science. 144, 381-392.
  • BINGHAM, I.J., BLAKE, J., FOULKES, M.J. AND SPINK, J. (2007). Is barley yield in the UK sink limited? I. Post-anthesis radiation interception, radiation-use efficiency and source–sink balance. Field Crops Research 101, 198–211.
  • BINGHAM, I.J., BLAKE, J., FOULKES, M.J. AND SPINK, J. (2007). Is barley yield in the UK sink limited? II. Factors affecting potential grain size. Field Crops Research 101, 212–220.
  • P.M. BERRY & J.H. SPINK. Understanding the effect of a triazole with anti-gibberellin activity on the growth and yield of oilseed rape (Brassica napus). In Press.
  • D. J. BAILEY, N. PAVELEY, J. SPINK, P. LUCAS AND C. A. GILLIGAN. Epidemiological analysis of take-all decline in winter wheat. In Press