Reader in Plant Nematology - research interests biofumigation, trap crops, plant extracts. Specific experience with potato cyst nematodes - All views my own
West Midlands, England
Joined September 2015
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🆕 In our newly published paper in @Forests_MDPI, we explored how wood incubation influences the detection of the #pinewood_nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) in both pallet samples and fresh wood
🗞️ Read the paper at mdpi.com/1999-4907/16/2/339 | doi.org/10.3390/f16020339
Braving the frost with my colleague @FusariumUK and our group of PgC students taking the Plant Health Practices. We still managed to find 10 different symptoms of disease and pest damage on oilseed rape, sugar beet and winter wheat! @HarperAdamsUni
As always a fantastic day in the Nematologists calendar @aab_nematology Advances in Nematology at the London @LinneanSociety. Great representation by @HarperAdamsUni staff and students. Guest appearance by my daughter Emily
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I'm delighted to advertise our new fully funded PhD project: Can regenerative farming techniques increase the biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic nematodes against the cabbage stem flea beetle? Supervisors: Fisayo Daramola, Neil Havis, @DrMattBack. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super…
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Interested in supporting the new Dr. Richard Sikora Travel Award? See information about this great cause in the flyer below.
Amazing week at the 8th International Symposium of Biofumigation in San Pedro, Argentina. Thank you to @biofumigationar for their kind invitation @HarperAdamsUni
News - International experts meet at University to discuss latest research on major crop pest | Harper Adams University harper-adams.ac.uk/news/2112… @AABiologists @aab_nematology @DrKasiaDybal
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Would you ever consider non-crop annual plants (eg annual wildflowers) to support pollination, natural pest control or other ecosystem services on-farm? We would love to hear your thoughts.
Do you use or promote non-cropped field margins or strips on arable land? Do you think annual plant communities could be used effectively in these? We would love to hear your thoughts. Please follow the link below:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
#agriculture #farming @H2020Cropdiva
ALT Flowering Crimson Clover and Common Vetch in a grass seed mixture
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Excited to welcome around 150 new Agrics to @HarperAdamsUni today as their Course Manager, a new chapter for me and for them! They passed their first test with flying colours managing to spell out AGRIC on the cricket pitch. Thanks to Dr Andrew Watson for the drone imagery.
Looking forward to @biofumigationar 8th International Symposium of Biofumigation in Argentina! @HarperAdamsUni @KAWALYAFRANCIS1
The Nematology Group @HarperAdamsUni celebrated @tripathi_niru passing her PhD - congratulations 🙌 Niru! – at Shrewsbury, England
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My first ever PCN conference . It has been fascinating and action packed two days with lots of work from Potato industry, cover crops, soil amendments ,resistance, chemical control, policy , detection, phenotyping of nematodes. #PCNSYM6 @AABiologists @Valeria_orl7 @DrMattBack
Never forget my mentor, Dr Pat Haydock who initiated research on nematodes @HarperAdamsUni #PCNSYM6
Fabulous first day - 6th Symposium of PCN Management @DrKasiaDybal @HarperAdamsUni #PCNSYM6 Great variety of presentations on diverse topics. Plus Nematology Cèilidh! Thank-you @certis_belchim @cupgra @CABI_Knowledge @AABiologists
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Excited to be @HarperAdamsUni for Symposium on Potato Cyst Nematodes, which explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these very damaging pests. 🥔🪱
Online registration still available!
🕸️ web.cvent.com/event/56a2ab8b…
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@HarperAdamsUni Research Conference continues with a talk about suppressing nematodes in narcissus by @vongaichekanai
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The groundbreaking work of PCN Action Scotland has been featured by the BBC in print (bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdk…), on the radio, and as interviews with Dr James Price @JamesAPrice94 @HuttonCMS and Dr Kerry Leslie on Reporting Scotland this week!