Huge congratulations to BAC-STOP researcher Gareth Thomas who scooped Best Poster at the recent International Plant Health Conference. Gareth’s poster entitled ‘Using the odour of bacteria to tackle acute oak decline’ beat off competition from across the globe to be …
Researchers on our BAC-STOP project have recently published a long-overdue update to the Disease Decline Spiral Model. It draws from their research on tree decline diseases like Acute Oak Decline (AOD) which don’t have one single cause. Rather they are …
In the second of our Fighting Bac workshops our researchers will share new approaches for identifying and modelling disease outbreaks. The workshop will focus particularly on the next steps for translating these findings into real world innovations and how stakeholders …
In the first of our Fighting Bac workshops our researchers will share promising new strategies for controlling bacterial plant diseases using microbes and microbial products. The workshop will focus particularly on the next steps for translating these findings into real …
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Today, 1 September 2022, sees a changing of the guard for the Pseudomonas-Prunus project. Original project lead, Richard Harrison, has left both NIAB Cambridge Crop Research and the UK and is heading for the Netherlands. Richard has been appointed Managing …
In the wonderfully named village of Little Snoring in Norfolk is a unique and pioneering experiment. It is home to the Bac-Stop field site which includes 144 intensively monitored trees. This makes it the largest ever tree-focused drought field trial …
Joanna Vicente reports from the 14th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria (ICPPB) which took place 3-8 July in Assisi, Italy. Surrounded by sunflower fields and olive trees, 196 delegates gathered in the idyllic setting of the Hotel Valle di …
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Joana Vicente reports from the 4th International Erwinia Workshop (4th IEW) which took place 2-3 July 2022 in Assisi, Italy. Delegates took planes, trains and automobiles to convene at the Hotel Valle di Assisi to discuss various plant diseases that …
Tucked away in a corner of the gardening zone of the Great Yorkshire Show is something that looks more like a circus sideshow. What could it possibly have to do with plants? Surprisingly, it is the result of a collaboration …
Organised by FAO and Defra, the First International Plant Health Conference aims to address new and emerging plant health challenges, including climate change impacts, the risks associated with significant increase in international trade, the rapid loss of biological diversity and …
Aimed at early career researchers and PhD students, this workshop will be an opportunity to develop skills, think about your career trajectory and get to know your peers on other projects. The programme will include Networking Research presentations Writing stronger …
Most of our project teams are interdisciplinary to some extent – whether that means integrating different kinds of scientists, or incorporating data specialists or social scientists into their teams. And interdisciplinary reserach is increasingly important as many of the complex …
This year we coordinated a busy programme of activities for plant health week including a webinar, two Twitter takeovers and the launch of our new Resources web page. These activities were to mark Plant Health Week 2022, coordinated by DEFRA, …
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Sandra Denman (Forest Research and project lead for the BAC-STOP project) recently wrote a summary of her team’s research activities for the annual Woodland Heritage Journal. Normally only available to Woodland Heritage members, we are delighted to have permission to …
Whether due to your personal commitment and/or to funders’ insistence, researchers find themselves pursuing real-world impacts from their work. This practical, interactive masterclass will focus on critical processes in generating impacts, such as Knowledge Exchange, as well as on capturing …
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Increasingly, complex research challenges require interdisciplinary approaches. Increasingly, too, funders require interdisciplinarity. This masterclass will describe what interdisciplinarity actually is and why it is sought, along with the challenges and opportunities it presents to researchers. However, the emphasis of the …
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By Bryden Fields, Research Associate on the Ralstonia Phage project Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect and kill bacteria. Phages can have very specific host ranges and we can harness this specificity to kill certain bacterial strains whilst leaving other …
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Woodlands cover around 13% of the total land area of the UK. Although this figure is much lower than the European average of 37%, the UK’s trees are nonetheless highly valued for timber production, biodiversity, water and air quality improvement. …
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As part of Plant Health Week 2022 we are launching a new ‘Resources’ section on our website. This section is aimed at stakeholders and non-specialists who might be looking for information about identifying or managing bacterial plant diseases. It includes …
Today for Plant Health Week we are celebrating all the ways that plants make life better. Here Mike Dunn, from the BAC-STOP project, shares some of the wonderful submissions to the Odes 2 Oaks campaign. The iconic oak tree is …