PH Gregory Prize

The Board of BSPP wishes to encourage young plant pathologists and others who are eligible to take part in the P. H. Gregory prize, which is awarded for the presentation of an oral paper at the Presidential Meeting each year.

The P.H. Gregory Competition is open (a) to members of BSPP who have not previously presented a paper to a meeting of a learned society and (b) to all registered postgraduate students, whether or not they are members the society, or have presented a paper before to a meeting of a learned society.

Contestants should not have entered the P.H. Gregory competition previously. 

Those wishing to take part in this years competition should contact the Programme Secretary.

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Past winners of the prize were

2021	Tania Chancellor	Exploiting the family feud: a fungal endophyte for the control of take-all disease in wheat
2019	Cassandra Jensen	It’s all in the delivery: identifying and functionally characterising yellow rust effectors in wheat
2018	Anna Gonzalez Gil	Chromatin remodelling and its conserved role in plant biotic and abiotic stress responses
2017	Kathryn Hales	Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae to enable disease management in carrot crops
2016	Douglas Pyott	Engineering of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated virus resistance in transgene free Arabidopsis plants
2015	Fay Newbery	Maintaining oilseed rape yield in a changing climate: modelling for a warmer future
2014	Laura Stevens	Shuffling resistance genes to protect solanaceous plants
2013	Rebekah Robinson	Bacterial endophytes in wheat: isolation, community structure and in planta localisation
2012	Ruth Bryant	Effect of temperature on wheat resistance to yellow rust
2011	Nichola Hawkins	Fungicide resistance in Rhynchosporium secalis
2009	Helen Lovell	Bacterial evolution by genomic island transfer occurs via DNA transformation in planta
2008	Siân Deller	Reactive oxygen species-related genes in the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola
2007	Mary Illes	Role of Nitric Oxide and Nitric Oxide Synthases in Magnaporthe grisea
2006	Mary Coates	Searching for Avirulence Genes in Hyaloperonospora parasitica
2005	Biswanath Das	Control of grey leaf spot disease in Africa
2003	Sarah Coulthurst	Bacterial Communication: the Role of luxS in a Plant and an Animal Pathogen
2002	S. Surujdeo-Maharaj	An optimised inoculation method to screen cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) for resistance to Witches Broom Disease caused by Crinipellis perniciosa
2000	Jack Peart	Identification of genes required for N-mediated resistance against TMV by virus-induced gene silencing.
1999	T. Gilles	The effects of environmental factors on light leaf spot epidemics on winter oilseed rape in the UK.
1998	E. Reichert-Zelinger
1997	A.J. Hilton	Relationship between height and resistance to fusarium ear blight in wheat
1996	E. Moses	Stem tip dieback of cassava: identification and virulence of the causal organism.
1995	P. Bittner-Eddy
1994	A.K. Lees
1993	K.R. Green
1992	J.H. Crouch
1991	A. Okoli