Undergraduate Vacation Bursary Reports 2020

These are all the reports from our BSPP funded Undergraduate Bursaries in 2020

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A literature review into Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense – the causal agent of Panama disease of banana (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Fred Hill, The University of Exeter. This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to …

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Profiling four Take-all reference isolates (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Rosie Miller, Eden Project Learning. This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read …

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Using CRISPR-Cas9 and calcium reporters to study arabidopsis interactions with the green peach aphid (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Emma Turley, John Innes Centre.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply …

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Characterisation of fungicide resistance in Venturia inaequalis (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Araminta Gray, University of Kent.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to …

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Bacteriophages: an innovative form of biocontrol to help combat bacterial tree disease (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Emily Grace.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply for …

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Functionally characterising chloroplast-associated genes involved in wheat responses to yellow rust (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Juliet Smith, University of Sheffield.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read …

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Characterising sources of genetic resistance to take-all disease from ancestral wheat and rye relatives (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Nicolas Trenk, University of Bath.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read …

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Phenotyping Verticillium wilt resistance in hop to novel, hyper-virulent forms of Verticillium nonalfalfae through large scale pathogenicity assays

23rd April 2021

Written by Carla Hazel Finn.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply …

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Designing and creating plant pathology-based resources: educational and interactive (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Shannon-Marie Murtagh.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply for …

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The role of NAD/NADP in plant immunity (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Daniel Marcell Pap.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply …

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Study of extracellular vesicles as a response to infection of Brassica (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Nathaniel Hearfield, University of Hertfordshire.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read …

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Dissecting transcriptional regulation of host resistance and pathogen virulence (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Imogen Hockenhull, University of York.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to …

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Investigating the phenotypic effect of two candidate Fusarium graminearum effectors that are upregulated during the symptomless phase of FHB infection using the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Karen Irawan.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply for …

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Function of small RNAs in plant-pathogen interactions (A BSPP Summer Vacation Bursary Report)

23rd April 2021

Written by Rugile Sestokaite.  This is the report from a BSPP Undergraduate ‘Vacation’ Bursary. Click here to read more/apply for …

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