Art and Plant Disease: Helen Pennington – A calendar of plant pathology art.

10th May 2022

Helen Pennington, plant pathologist and artist, is working with the BSPP to produce a plant pathogens calendar. This calendar will …

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A Phytophthora infestans effector activates a distinct autophagy pathway involving a selective cargo receptor (A BSPP Incoming Fellowship)

6th May 2022

This is the report from a BSPP Incoming Fellowship. Click here to read more/apply for one yourself. Autophagy is a …

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Introducing Girlguides to plant pathology, one badge at a time! by Luca Steel (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2021

Thanks to the BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion fund, 3,500 Girlguides are being introduced to plant pathology. The ‘Plant Defenders’ challenge …

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The Phytosanctuary Garden at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park by Kristian Reay (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2021

Today our food is grown on the other side of the world, the trees planted in our parks and gardens …

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2019 Symptoms to Sequences Diagnostic Workshop at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh by Katy Hayden (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2020

The popular Symptoms to Sequences diagnostic course had its first Scottish run on 11th September 2019 at the Royal Botanic …

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Illustrations for “Plant pathology and plant diseases” text book by David B Collinge (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2020

The BSPP “Plant Pathology Promotion Fund” awarded a grant to pay for illustrations for our forthcoming text book “Plant pathology …

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White Moulds Ramularia and Phacellium anamorphs in Wales & Britain, a guide and Welsh census catalogue by Arthur O. Chater (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2020

Some ten years ago a group of five of us with mycological interests in phytoparasitic fungi got together to produce …

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Learning bioinformatics during visit to John Innes Centre (A BSPP Junior Fellowship)

2nd February 2020

Written by Catherine Jimenez-Quiros at the The University of Worcester. This is the report from a BSPP Junior Fellowship. Click …

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OxHOS Summer Roadshow 2019 (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2019

What is OxHOS? Oxford Hands-On Science (OxHOS) is a student-run society based at the University of Oxford. We believe that …

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Visit to University of California to learn population genetics methods to study Armillaria mellea (BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd July 2019

Written by Dr Jassy Drakulic at the Royal Horticultural Society. This is the report from a BSPP Senior Fellowship. Click here …

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Beech (Fagus sylvatica) decline in the Belgian Ardennes (BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd July 2019

Written by Beatrice Henricot at the Groupement Forestier Bois des Moines, Ardennes of Belgium. This is the report from a …

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Safeguarding UK hop production: Developing race-specific diagnostics to Verticillium nonalfalfae using genomic approaches (A BSPP Incoming Fellowship)

2nd February 2019

Written by Mr Giuliano Manetti at the The University of Tuscia. This is the report from a BSPP Incoming Fellowship. …

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Deciphering the seed microbiome in maize landraces (A BSPP Incoming Fellowship)

2nd February 2019

Written by Alessandro Passera at the University of Milan. This is the report from a BSPP Incoming Fellowship. Click here to …

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A visiting scientist at SCION, Rotorua, New Zealand (BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd January 2019

Written by Steve Woodward at the University of Aberdeen. This is the report from a BSPP Senior Fellowship. Click here to …

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Discovery, evaluation, and optimization of bacteriophage for management of fire blight of apple and bacterial canker of sweet cherry (A BSPP Incoming Fellowship)

1st January 2019

Written by George Sundin and Rob Jackson at the University of Reading. This is the report from a BSPP Incoming …

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Investigations on the effects of a mycovirus on the pathogenicity of Dothistroma septosporum the causal agent of pine needle blight (A BSPP Junior Fellowship)

2nd September 2018

Written by John Daudu (far right) at the University of Hertfordshire. This is the report from a BSPP Junior Fellowship. Click …

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Assess the potential of a new method to prevent potato blight disease and to gain experience of industrial research (A BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd September 2018

Written by Qin He at the University of Dundee. This is the report from a BSPP Senior Fellowship. Click here to …

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Inspiring youth through plant pathology research in South Africa by Joey Hulbert (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2018

Cape Citizen Science (http:// citsci.co.za/) is an initiative in South Africa that received support from the BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion …

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Improving our understanding of how alterations in the Blumeria graminis cyp51 gene lead to increased fungicide resistance (A BSPP Junior Fellowship)

2nd August 2017

Written by Corinne Arnold at the John Innes Centre. This is the report from a BSPP Junior Fellowship. Click here to read …

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Cambridge science festival by Anna Gordon (BSPP Plant Pathology Promotion Fund)

16th July 2017

Volunteers from the National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge were able to make a big splash with plant-disease-themed interactive …

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Developing a smartphone application for an existing disease risk model for Fusarium solani in Brazil (A BSPP Junior Fellowship)

2nd April 2017

Written by Renan Macedo at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. This is the report from a BSPP Junior Fellowship. Click …

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A wheat defence related miRNA targets a WRKY-domain containing NLR (A BSPP Grace Waterhouse Fellowship)

2nd December 2016

Written by Vic Nicolis at the James Hutton Institute. This is the report from a BSPP Grace Waterhouse Fellowship. Click …

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Investigating the packaging of the satellite tobacco necrosis virus-1 genomic RNA (A BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd September 2016

Written by Dr Ioly Kotta-Loizou at Imperial College London. This is the report from a BSPP Senior Fellowship. Click here to …

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Biology and epidemiology of stripe rust in spring (BSPP Senior Fellowship)

2nd March 2016

Written by Xiangming Xu at NIAB EMR. This is the report from a BSPP Senior Fellowship. Click here to read more/apply for …

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