Crop protection and climate change

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.

Three visiting professors from Rothamsted Research are associated with this group.

Professor Jon West
Professor Fred Beaudoin
Professor Jonathan Storkey

Visiting Professor

Retired Professor from UH, still active in research with Thailand, is associated with this group

AgriFood Charities partnership Forum (June 21) video recording of procedures

The AgriFood Charities Partnership (AFCP) Forum - Management of oilseed rape diseases and pests.

The work was funded by charities, and others, who provide opportunities to learn about current developments in disease and pest management of oilseed rape.

The video is very long, therefore we have produced a table with the approximate time of each speaker's recording.

Presenter	Approx time on the video (hrs:min:sec)	Presentation title
Professor Robert Edwards	02:47	Introducing the Agricultural Universities Council
Dr Yong-ju Huang	09:40	Management of Oilseed Rape disease and pests
James Fortune	35:22	Chemical warfare - The fungal quest to conquer oilseed rape
Dr Chintani Karandeni Dewage	53:00	Insights into the Brassica Napus- Pyrenopeziza brassicae pathosystem
Claire Hoarau	01:13:00	Potential of biopesticides
Isabelle SIms	01:31:00	Identifying resistance to Rhizoctonia solani AG2-1 in Brassica napus
Dr Julia Smith	01:46:50	Plasmodiaphora brassicae diversity in the UK, implications for club root managment
Dr Paul Gosling	02:10:57	Deploying varietal resistance in the field
Dr Gaetan Seimandi-Corda	02:29:15	Companion plants to reduce Cabbage stem Flea Beetle attack
Professor Bruce Fitt	02:48:00	Climate change
Professor Mike Page	03:15:50	Close

Arable crop diseases

Nematology

Climate change and crop diseases

Tropical forage crops

Integrated control of Phoma stem canker pathogens

Durability of Oilseed Rape Resistance

Combating insecticide resistance

Horticultural crop diseases

Enhancing plant stress resilience

Mycoviruses as biocontrol agents

Transposable elements in malaria vectors

A stored potato colonised by filamentous fungi

MycoLab

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