16th September 2018

2nd August 2018

The prize is named and awarded in honour of Professor RKS Wood to acknowledge his role in driving the establishment …

13th June 2018

It is with great sadness that we have to report that Dr Richard Cooper, BSPP President 2007 and Honorary Member …

10th June 2018

With BSPP Outreach heading out onto the road again to share the destructive beauty of plant pathogens with the general …

1st June 2018

The ground-breaking work of Professor Sophien Kamoun at The Sainsbury Laboratory …

1st May 2018

Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow has succeeded Professor Dame Jean Thomas Hon FRSB …

1st April 2018

Researchers in the UK have successfully grown the world’s first crop of barley using nothing but robot tractors and drones. …

1st April 2018

19th March 2018

Application deadline: April 3rd 2018 – a one-week programme for outstanding …

9th February 2018

6th February 2018

Thank you to all those who filled in our BSPP Membership Survey last year. Due to the BSPP Membership Secretary …

5th February 2018

2nd January 2018

Prof. Murray Grant (Warwick, pictured) steps in as president to replace Professor Richard Oliver (Curtin). Prof. Dawn Arnold (UWE) steps up to …

4th December 2017

21st November 2017

Professor Pietro Spanu and Dr Phil Taylor received the most votes in our members ballot.… View all our board members …

20th November 2017

Eric Boa is an honorary research fellow in the Institute for Biological and Environmental… Read Eric’s profile …

13th November 2017

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3rd October 2017

Announcing the prize winners at the BSPP 2017 Presidential conference: PH Gregory prize 2017 The £250 PH Gregory prize and …

17th June 2017

2016 Impact factors have just been released with MPP and PP both rising. Further detail and full bibliometric reports will …

1st June 2017

The BSPP was saddened to hear of the death of BSPP honorary member Professor RKS Wood earlier this year. An …

23rd March 2017

3rd January 2017

The scenario: You have three days to solve a major challenge of importance to plant …

24th November 2016

Congratulations to Megan Cohn (MPP) of UC Berkeley USA and to Anna Harris (PP) of the …

23rd November 2016

At our last presidential conference we held a competition for a new BSPP T-Shirt. The winning design, sent in by …