Soft Fruit

12 October 2021

Dead-end hosts of spotted wing drosophila (SWD) offer a potential way of diverting adults away from fruit crops and slowing population development of the pest.

10 March 2022

This project identified areas where energy and water use efficiency might be improved in glasshouse soft fruit production

A report from the International Strawberry Congress 2017

13 October 2021

A guide to methods of harvesting, treating and recycling water in soft fruit production

25 April 2022

A study visit to the Pacific North West and Canada has provided an account of the information gathered on the spotted wing drosophila and the brown marmorated stink bug.

13 October 2021

Learn about how Botrytis infects strawberry and how to manage and control it.

3 September 2020

Western flower thrips (WFT) cause significant financial losses for strawberry growers in the United Kingdom. This factsheet provides information on the pest, the damage it causes to strawberries and the results AHDB research and a study of control in commercial strawberry production sites, which have led to a series of control guidelines.

29 June 2022

The objective of this project is to produce new summer and primocane-fruiting raspberry varieties for the European industry for both the fresh and processing markets, whilst deploying marker assisted selection to promptly identify important commercial traits.

23 September 2021

This factsheet explains the importance of gaining early control of several important insect pests in soft fruit crops, should spotted wing drosophila become a problem.

9 August 2022

These pages summarise the recommendations made following the completion of research, which aimed to develop improved management methods for pollination, Botrytis, blackcurrant leaf midge and blackcurrant sawfly in commercial blackcurrants.

9 August 2022

Pollination in blackcurrant can affect yields and fruit quality and how crops cope with disease

9 August 2022

Read about managing botrytis in blackcurrant crops