Dr Kerry Maguire
Cereal Pathologist
Tel: +44 (0)1223 342213
Email: Kerry Maguire
I completed my PhD at Rothamsted Research (UK) studying the infection process of the cereal eyespot pathogens Oculimacula acuformis and O. yallundae. I continued to work at Rothamsted initially on chemosensing of plant pathogenic nematodes. I then worked on the screening of Arabidopsis thaliana mutants compromised in the signalling pathways that result in a defence response to pathogens. The aim was to identify mutants that had altered susceptibility to Fusarium culmorum and F. graminearum.
At NIAB I am involved with the National List (NL) and Recommended List (RL) varietal trials. This enables me to work with a range of cereal pathogens and also to study resistance to these pathogens.
Research areas and Interests:
Infection biology of fungal pathogens of plants
Plant resistance to fungal pathogens
Selected Publications:
Maguire K. (2005) Touchy Feely Fungi. The Biologist 52
Eckert, M., Maguire, K., Foster, S., Fitt, B., Lucas, J. and Hammond- Kosack, K. (2005) Agrobaccterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Leptosphaeria spp. and Oculimacula spp. with the reef coral gene DsRed and the jelly fish gene gfp. FEMS Microbiology Letters 253 67-74