Protecting future food supplies. Growing the next generation of plant pathologists.
Watch how our students from across the UK helped tackle some of today’s major plant pathology issues in our summer nursery placement schemes. See the next generation of plant doctors in action and register your interest in one of our educational bursaries.
Anderson Stiward González Rivera Investigating the role of viral non-coding ribonuclease-resistant RNAs in virus pathogenicity.
Eve Hallett, Characterizing genetic resistance to pea root-rot disease using diverse germplasm collection.
Freya Sorenti, researching the effect of saprophytic fungal mycelium on Armillaria root rot of strawberry.
Natalie Shores looking at fungicide resistance in Zymoseptoria tritici through time.
Sophie Perryman researching the effect of defence hormones, Jasmonic Acids, on wheat symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
David McLean looking into the production of biologically active fungal effector proteins utilising Apoplastic Wash Fluid from Nicotiana benthamiana.
Arwen Gean is understanding the role of fruit flies in Botrytis cinerea transmission.
Mia Cohen is exploring effector perception by a novel NLR immune receptor to engineer resistance to wheat blast and other crop diseases.
Anna Dickinson is exloring Barley yellow dwarf virus strain infection dynamics in wheat and viral reacquisition by aphids.
Kyle Willis is bridging the gap between activated plant receptors and downstream signalling
Anna (Yuyi) Li is understanding how metal and reactive oxygen species protect metal hyperaccumulating plants against plant disease.
Wayne Liang is looking at including time-dependent infectivity and detectability in epidemiological models for plant disease.
