Please note that applications for our 2019 studentships programme have now closed.

We worked with plant scientists to create nine excellent projects that address major plant health challenges identified by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

We are grateful to Defra, BSPP, N8 AgriFood and the David Colegrave Foundation for funding this programme.

Projects in 2019

Below-ground controls of oak decline University of Manchester		Safeguarding UK hop production: Validating race-specific diagnostics tools for Verticillium albo-atrum NIAB EMR, Kent
Stop them in their tracks: disrupting the temporal regulators of cyst nematode parasitism University of Cambridge		Development of combination phage therapy against Ralstonia solanacearum plant pathogenic bacterium University of York
Assessment of Psyllid vectors of Lso in the UK and their potential risk to Agriculture Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture, Edinburgh		Life cycle and biology of an emergent pest, the agapanthus gall midge RHS, Wisley
Microbial profiling of the oak tree phyllosphere in response to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels University of Birmingham		Towards curbing the ash dieback epidemic NIAB EMR, Kent
Using a multi-disciplinary approach to tackle a formidable foe - wheat stem rust John Innes Centre, Norwich

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