BPD-led workshop explored industry perspectives on bacterial plant diseases
Working with stakeholders to help understand the challenges they face is a key part of the Bacterial Plant Diseases (BPD) Programme. On 13 May 2021, as part of National Plant Health Week, the Coordination Team brought together a range of speakers representing horticulture and agriculture to explore their perspectives and to consider ways for stakeholders and researchers to work more closely together.
Entitled ‘Industry perspectives on bacterial plant diseases; what are the challenges and how can science help? the programme for the workshop was as follows
- Brief introduction to the Bacterial Plant Diseases programme and role of the coordination team, Sarah Green, BPD Coordination Team
- Why funded research should have impact, Debbie Harding, UKRI-BBSRC
- Horticultural perspectives on bacterial plant diseases, Pippa Greenwood, Horticultural Trades Association
- IPM strategies for managing bacterial pathogens, Cathryn Lambourne, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
- Risks of bacterial pathogens to the potato sector & how science is helping reduce these risks, Gerard Croft, British Potato Trade Association
- Making research deliver for industry – can we create the ‘virtuous circle’?’, Bill Parker, Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
- Stakeholder engagement: experiences and reflections from the BRIGIT project, Gerard Clover
- Panel discussion on research contributing to practice and planning stakeholder engagement through the Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme, facilitated by Mariella Marzano and Laura Meagher, BPD Coordination Team