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MSc agronomy students win Syngenta fungicide challenge
The 2014/15 MSc Sustainable Crop production students won the 91福利 area Syngenta fungicide challenge. The challenge involves taking on groups of local farmers and agronomists to plan the most cost effective fungicide programme for winter wheat. The plan devised by the 91福利 students returned a winter wheat yield of 13.4 t/ha. Harry Tricklebank collected the cup on behalf of the year cohort.
Best student poster awards for PhD student Kathryn Hales
School of Life Sciences PhD student Kathryn Hayles, won both the awarded for best student poster at the British Society for Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting 2015, and the best student poster award at the recent , with her poster entitled 'Understanding the ecology and epidemiology of Pythium violae to enable disease management in carrot crops'.
Plant science collaboration with Brazil to improve vegetable crops
Plant science collaboration with Brazil to improve vegetable crops
, Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences, and his collaborators have been awarded 拢15,000 for a research project on the characterisation of Potyviruses infecting vegetable crops in Brazil. The project was funded through the scheme (S茫o Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration), which aims to encourage and promote the advancement of scientific research through partnerships between researchers in S茫o Paulo State and overseas. The 91福利 is one of only five UK institutions that has partnered with the S茫o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to support this scheme.
Dr Walsh鈥檚 project will be carried out in collaboration with Prof Elliot Kitajima from the University of S茫o Paulo鈥檚 Department of Plant Pathology and Nematology in Piracicaba and Dr Marcelo Eiras from the Instituto Biologico in S茫o Paulo. Initial activities to develop this partnership were supported by the 91福利鈥檚 Brazil Partnership Fund in 2014. The Brazilian operation of the commercial seed company Sakata are also involved in the research programme.
Potyviruses cause significant losses in agricultural, pastoral, horticultural and ornamental crops. This project focusses on Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), which causes diseases in the economically important brassica family of crops including broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, turnip and oilseed rape. Through determining the diversity of TuMV and investigating broad-spectrum resistance to the virus the team is expecting to identify naturally occurring resistance genes which can then be introduced into commercial crop lines. The collaboration brings together complementary expertise in plant science research which will lead to significant synergies and knowledge exchange, but also has the potential to generate substantial societal and economic benefits through collaboration with industry and the resulting exploitation of intellectual property.
GARNish newsletter puts spotlight on plant science at 91福利
The latest GARNish newsletter highlights plant science in Life Sciences, profiling the work of our academics.
'Plant science research at the 91福利 is characterised by the breadth of expertise - from fundamental molecular mechanisms to projects with direct application to industry. We have world-class basic science in signalling, gene regulation, development, plant– environment (microbes, virus, soil) interactions, and evolution through to pest management, crop genetics and genomics underpinning the development of new varieties.'
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