Consideration of future benefits to stakeholders has been woven into the BPD programme since its beginning. The multiple funders of the programme (UKRI, Defra, Scottish Government) all recognised the critical importance of fundamental research related to gaps in understanding of …
Narratives of Knowledge Exchange, Impacts and Impacts-in-progress Read More »
In early March 2024 brought all of our project teams together for one last time under the umbrella of the Bacterial Plant Disease Programme. We were hosted at the Manchester Institute for Biotechnology by Duncan Cameron and the Disease Suppressive …
by Sarah McLusky, BPD Communications and Events Coordinator I’ve been involved in science communication for over 20 years but, until recently, I’d never really thought much about making Wikipedia part of my toolbox. If fact when I was a college …
This is the final report from our placement programme. Here three members of the Xanthomonas Threats project, Adam Bryning, Jenny Cole and Joana Vicente (all Fera), report on their visit to two Lincolnshire seed companies – Elsoms and Sakata. Discussing diagnostics at …
Curious about cabbages: Visiting Lincolnshire Seed Companies Read More »
On 3 June 2023 our Xanthomonas Threats project hosted a stall at the Kenilworth Show. Here Shannon Greer and Joana Vincente report on their day. The Kenilworth Show is an annual agricultural show that has been running nearly uninterrupted for …
At the beginning of March our BAC-STOP and Future Oak projects welcomed stakeholders to Shropshire for a joint meeting to share their research into Acute Oak Decline (AOD) and other tree diseases. AOD is a complex multi-factor disease. Bacterial species …
Talking about trees: Oak stakeholder meeting 2023 Read More »
Joana Vicente, Coordination Team and Xanthomonas Threats, reports from two recent plant health meetings. Defra (one of our funders) supports four long-term Genetic Improvement Networks (GINs) to improve major UK crop varieties. The four GINs are: ‘The GINs aim to …
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 …
Fighting Bac: Making microbes our allies (Stakeholder Workshop) Read More »
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 …
Prof Ian Toth of the James Hutton Institute, project lead for DeS-BL, reports on their recent knowledge exchange meeting.
Hear about the latest research into oak diseases.
As part of Nationa Plant Health Week, stakeholders and researchers came together to discuss the challenges of managing bacterial plant diseases.