29th September 2020

Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time on the African continent, according …

25th September 2020

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Next time you head outside for a socially distant walk in between your Zoom meetings, …

23rd September 2020

Boyce Thompson Institute researchers are working to create tomatoes that are protected from a devastating disease BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE Bacterial …

21st September 2020

Plant Health Week shares the incredible world of plants and how plant health underpins our health. Plants provide 98% of …

21st September 2020

Researchers to sequence and assemble genome of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lini PETER THE GREAT SAINT-PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Molecular and computational …

19th September 2020

Early detection of diseases of crops at a gene level and protection of food safety TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUT) …

18th September 2020

2020 was to be THE year for plants. International Year of Plant Health 2020 was announced by the UN General …

17th September 2020

Scientists found that the tobacco plant Nicotiana can maintain grafts between a broad range of species. Using Nicotiana as an …

15th September 2020

AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is one of the most destructive diseases of soybean, with losses of nearly …

13th September 2020

A Chinese-German research team identifies the olfactory receptors of a pest insect that control its preference for cabbage, rapeseed and …

21st August 2020

This blog is part of a series, click here to view all blogs in this series The first #wildplantdisease challenge …

20th August 2020

My recent blog described the trials and tribulations of writing textbooks, including an analogy from Greek mythology. Sisyphus believed he …

18th August 2020

My original idea for this blog was ‘To the village and back’. In the lead-up to the #wildplantdisease challenge I …

15th August 2020

Comment by David Ingram, Past President & Honorary Member, BSPP.  I congratulate Nichola Hawkins, Fay Newbery and @wildflower_hour on the launch …

13th August 2020

Many plant pathologists spend their working lives trying to achieve durable and sustainable control of destructive pathogens of agricultural crops, …

12th August 2020

One of the diseases that people are going to find a lot of in summer, is powdery mildew. This normally …

10th August 2020

On Sunday 16th August, members of the British Society for Plant Pathology will be joining wildflowerhour on Twitter to explore …

5th August 2020

Life after COVID19 has brought challenges across the world and to every member of the BSPP. Many scientists have been …

25th July 2020

Today is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rosalind Franklin, being the first to define the structure of Tobacco …

20th July 2020

Positive feedback has come flooding in from the Girlguiding organisation as thousands of ‘Plant Defenders’ have launched onto their discovery …

15th July 2020

Before Covid-19 took over the news, health headlines were frequently warning of the growing threat of superbugs. Disease-causing bacteria have …

10th July 2020

For many plant pathologists in the UK, now would be the season of field events, agricultural and horticultural shows. These …

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