Henry Tidd

Henry works primarily on fungicide resistance monitoring in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. He has also worked with host resistance genes that provide protection against this pathogen.

Current Projects

Monitoring and understanding fungicide resistance development in cereal pathogens to inform disease management strategies. Ends: 31 March 2026. Scientific partners: ADAS, SRUC and Teagasc. Industry partners: BASF, Bayer CropScience, Corteva and Syngenta. Funded: AHDB

Aerobiome based genomic surveillance of fungicide resistance to track the development and spread of AMR in plant pathogens and the wider environment. Ends: 1 February 2027. Partners: Stichting Wageningen Research institute, the Institut national de la recherche agrono, Teagasc, the University of Warmia and Mazury and Curtin University. Funding: BBSRC

Recent Publications

Loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) as a rapid and portable diagnostic tool for the detection of pea root rot pathogens (2025), Nature Scientific Reports.

A large bioassay identifies Stb resistance genes that provide broad resistance against Septoria tritici blotch disease in the UK (2023), Frontiers in Plant Science. Frontiers

Rational design of minimal synthetic promoters for plants (2020), Nucleic Acids Research.

Full publication list on ORCiD