Projects per year
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
- School of Life and Medical Sciences
- 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
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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Screening varietal tolerance in potatoes and identifying potential alternate hosts of Alternaria spp.
Huang, Y. & Karandeni Dewage, C. S.
7/08/23 → 7/08/24
Project: Research
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31 March 2023: Identification, selection, characterization and optimisation of antimicrobial proteins from food insects and indigenous chickens’ skin and feathers as ingredients for food and industrial applications
Ren, G., Timms, A., Fitt, B., Stair, J., Oloo, B., Nduko, J., Ogendo, J. & Mungai, N.
1/10/22 → …
Project: Research
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Efficacy of different inoculum forms of Rhizoctonia solani AG 2 2IIIB for resistance screening of sugar beet varieties
Qi, A., Bhuiyan, M. Z. R., E. del Rio Mendoza, L., Lakshman, D. K. & Khan, M. F. R., 21 Sept 2023, In: Journal of Plant Pathology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Can 100% Pasture-Based Livestock Farming Produce Enough Ruminant Meat to Meet the Current Consumption Demand in the UK?
Qi, A., Whatford, L., Payne-Gifford, S., Cooke, R., Van Winden, S., Hӓsler, B. & Barling, D., 1 Sept 2023, In: Grasses. 2, 3, p. 185-206 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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William Blake, the Single Vision and Newton's Sleep: A History of Science, Poetry and Progress
Davies, K., 27 Jul 2023, 1st ed. Routledge. 312 p. (History of Science, Technology and Medicine)Research output: Book/Report › Book