The UKCPVS project has monitored cereal pathogens in the UK for nearly 60 years, detecting and warning industry and growers of new races of disease emerging on resistant varieties. The event is targeted primarily at breeders, crop scientists and technical …
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 …
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Breeding new crop varieties remains a slow and laborious process. It can take years, sometimes decades, from the first cross to the commercial release of a new variety. Climate shocks, conflict, and shifting policy outpace genetic progress, leaving yields …
Katie started her PhD project at Niab in 2025, through the CTP-SAI studentship programme. Her research focuses on predicting fungicide resistance evolution by combining theoretical and experimental approaches. Working with Zymoseptoria tritici isolates …
Nelzo develops and delivers bioinformatics training materials for staff to enhance their technical and analytical skills. He also provide bioinformatics support to researchers, offering guidance and assistance in applying best practices for the …
Phd student Jasmine is researching the yield, quality and shelf-life problems in UK lettuce crops due to virus infections. She is working towards determining the current virus species infecting UK lettuce crops and investigating the virome and viral …
SWD (spotted wing drosophila - Drosophila suzukii ) is an invasive pest which arrived in the UK in 2012. Niab first highlighted the risk of the pest when it spread from its home in Asia to North America and mainland Europe and provided information for an …
Scientists and technical managers had mapped its movement from its origins in Japan to the USA, then mainland Europe. By 2012, the UK fruit industry had formed an SWD Working Group to consider how to manage it when it gained entry here. The level of …
Its purpose is to share information on the spread of SWD, the damage that it causes and the latest research results from all projects both in the UK and overseas. It also provides a forum for discussing issue management and drawing together the industry …
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