Isobel Tickner

Isobel Tickner has an MSc in Biology from the University of Southampton

Tozer Seeds has hired Biology graduate Isobel Tickner as product development assistant with a remit to expand the company’s vegetable trial capacity in the UK.

Tickner, who graduated with a MSc in Biology from the University of Southampton, has recently completed an internship at the Wildlife Trust.

As well as overseeing the vegetable trial expansion, she will also be responsible for managing Tozer’s global trial seed.

She said: “I am thrilled to take on this challenging and exciting role in a company which has such an innovative vegetable breeding programme.”

Tozer Seeds’ director of product development Alan Badura, said: “We are really pleased to welcome Isobel into the PD team at Tozer, I think she will make a real difference to our aim of delivering the very best of Tozer breeding into UK growers.”