Investigating the effect of glutamate treatment on the defence responses of Nicotiana benthamiana

3rd March 2026

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Unleashing AI-powered predictions for plant-pathogen interactions

3rd March 2026

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Enhancing wheat’s resilience to rust infection

3rd March 2026

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Characterising the role of positively ubiquitinated genes in Arabidopsis immune activation

3rd March 2026

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Investigations into Curreya pithyophila and canker disease; a new health threat to Scots pine in Scotland

3rd March 2026

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Characterising the immune receptor network against root-knot nematodes in sweet potato

3rd March 2026

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Developing culturing and resistance screening techniques for downy mildew on wild rocket

11th December 2025

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Function of two tandemly duplicated immune receptor genes in disease resistance and its temperature sensitivity

11th December 2025

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SWEETs, Worms and Solanaceae: Investigating factors determining plant parasitic nematode virulence

11th December 2025

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The 2025 Undergraduate Vacation Bursary is now open for project supervisors to submit their proposals

6th January 2025

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Characterising genetic resistance to pea root-rot disease using diverse germplasm collection (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Fighting against bacterial wilt disease in tomatoes (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Understanding the role of Drosophila melanogaster in Botrytis cinerea transmission: a chemical ecology approach (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Including time-dependent infectivity and detectability in epidemiological models for plant disease (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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An investigation into the potential role of cover crops for disease suppression in barley (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Understanding how heavy metals and reactive oxygen species protect metal hyperaccumulating plants against plant disease (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Fungicide Resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici through time (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Bridging the gap between activated plant receptors and downstream signaling (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Investigating the role of viral non-coding ribonuclease-resistant RNAs in virus pathogenicity (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Production of biologically active fungal effector proteins utilising Apoplastic Wash Fluid from Nicotiana benthamiana (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Impacts of wheat WKRY10 gene on septoria disease resistance and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Exploring effector perception by a novel NLR immune receptor to engineer resistance to wheat blast and other crop diseases (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Exploring Barley yellow dwarf virus strain infection dynamics in wheat and viral reacquisition by aphids (a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary)

17th April 2024

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Antifungal activities of indigenous and domesticated mushroom from Abongfen Forest, North West Region Cameroon, against Pseudocercospora griseola of Phaseolus vulgaris (A BSPP ‘Lockdown’ Bursary Report)

17th November 2023

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