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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The Crop Protection and Climate Change Group focuses on sustainable, environmentally friendly strategies for control of crop pests and diseases.
Threats to food security from crop pests and diseases are now being exacerbated by climate change and the evolution of resistance to pesticides by insects, weeds and fungal pathogens.
Our work seeks to understand crop resistance against pathogens and to optimise the use of synthetic chemicals in a changing environment (climate change adaptation) and to decrease agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by efficient pest and disease control (climate change mitigation).
It focuses on the protection of oilseed rape, wheat, strawberry and potato crops, especially phoma stem canker (Leptosphaeria maculans and L. biglobosa) and light leaf spot (Pyrenopeziza brassica) on oilseed rape, fusarium ear blight (Fusarium graminearum and F. asiaticum) on wheat, strawberry powdery mildew (Podosphaera aphanis) the nematodes Globodera spp. on potatoes and several arthropod pests of arable and horticultural crops.
Work is being done to understand epidemiology and contribute to effective control of these pests and diseases in relation to climate change to contribute to sustainable agriculture and global food security.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Dr Cristina Barrero Sicilia
- Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science
- Centre for Future Societies Research
- Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Management Research
- Biosciences Research Group
- Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences
- Crop Protection and Climate Change
- Centre for Research in Mechanisms of Disease and Drug Discovery
- School of Life and Medical Sciences
Person: Research, Academic
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Professor Robert Coutts
- Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences
- Crop Protection and Climate Change
- Centre for Agriculture, Food and Environmental Management Research
- Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science
- School of Life and Medical Sciences
Person: Research, Academic Manager, Academic
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Testing oilseed rape resistance to light leaf spot pathogen
Huang, Y. (PI) & Karandeni Dewage, C. S. (CoI)
1/10/24 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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Development and Characterization of a Duckweed-Based Biostimulant (DWEBS) for Enhanced Crop Growth and Stress Resistance
Barrero Sicilia, C. (PI) & Stair, J. (CoI)
9/09/24 → 8/09/25
Project: Research
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QUPEC: Quantum Dots for Photosynthesis Enhancement In Cereals (QUPEC)
Barrero Sicilia, C. (PI) & Urbano, L. (CoI)
5/07/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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Light Leaf Spot (Pyrenopeziza brassicae) of Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus) and Other Brassica Crops
Huang, Y., Karandeni Dewage, C. S., Fitt, B. & Sapelli, L., 30 May 2025, In: Plant Health Cases. p. 1-12 12 p., 0012.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Unravelling the impact of mycotoxins on gut health: implications for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Gasperini, A. M., Faccenda, D. & Garcia-Cela, E., 22 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Current Opinion in Food Science. 27 p., 101316.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fusarium graminearum and zearalenone in wheat: A water activity–temperature model
Ingram, B., Marin, S., Kiaitsi, E., Magan, N., Verheecke-Vaessen, C., Cervini, C., Rubio-Lopez, F. & Garcia-Cela, E., 30 Jun 2025, In: Fungal Biology. 129, 4, p. 1-11 11 p., 101572.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review