19th March 2018

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

9th February 2018

Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterial plant pathogen like no other and it could become one of the most important plant pathogens …

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

Harper Adams University offers the only postgraduate courses (PgC, PgD and MSc) in Plant Pathology in the UK.  The courses …

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

The British Society for Plant Pathology has an award for the best student paper published each year its journals Plant …

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

My garden is beginning to show signs of springing to life.  Flowers are popping up: crocuses (croci?), narcissi, Fritillaria (unless …

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 …

16th November 2016

Professor Dawn Arnold (Vice-President, 2017) After completing my PhD at the University of Bath in 1992 studying crook root disease …

3rd November 2016

Everyone in science knows the importance of coffee.  If you don’t drink it yourself, you surely know many who do.  …

28th October 2016

Dr. David Lonsdale of Hampshire United Kingdom is this year’s recipient of the …

6th October 2016

We take it for granted that major plant diseases – and insect pests for that matter – have a significant …

13th September 2016

Congratulations to the 2016 BSPP Poster and Presentation Prize Winners. The PH Gregory prize for the best presentation was awarded …

6th September 2016

Scientists like precision. A love of the precise comes from the need to convey information clearly, so that others can …

25th August 2016

What do Zika, Lyme, Newcastle and Sigatoka have in common? Or Lou Gerhig, Kaposi, Johne and Pierce, for that matter? …

11th August 2016

Holidays are here and it’s time to switch off. No scanning emails or checking your latest score on Research Gate …