BBSRC Strategic Programme in Smart Crop Protection

Title	Effector discover timeline, HIGS, BSMV-VOX and protein-protein interactions
Description	The VCU team at Rothamsted Research was commissioned to provide the following artwork to improve knowledge transfer to less specialist audiences - A timeline showing the progression of filamentous plant pathogen effector prediction and identification from the pregenomic era to the present day. - A simplified version of how host-induced gene silencing (HIGS) is thought works in plants - A simplified version of how the transient Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus - protein overexpression - BSMV-VOX technology works in plants - A simplified version of three different protein-protein interaction techniques. This artwork has already appeared in the review article by Kanja and Hammond-Kosack (2020) Proteinaceous effector discovery and characterization in filamentous plant pathogens. Molecular Plant Pathology 21, 1353-1376
Type Of Art	Artwork
Year Produced	2020
Impact	This artwork will be used in future scientific outreach activities to non-specialist audiences .
URL	https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.12980

Title	Interview with Rob Vale at Illuminos for an art installation for the British Science Festival in Leicester
Description	In 2020 I produced a short film as part of the Women of the Future event for the John Innes Centre. This was shared by John Innes with Illuminos who are developing an large-scale immersive art installation called the Compass for the British Science Festival on 13th - 17th September 2022 at De Montfort University in Leicester. On 13 July 2022 I spoke with Rob Vale about my career journey and research with a view to inclusion in the Compass project. What is the Compass? The Compass is a unique spectacle of story, sound and light, The Compass is an immersive, projection-mapped installation, bringing to life how we navigate knowledge, and how scientific research can be a compass to guide our curiosity. British Science Researchers are revealed as pioneering explorers, on personal voyages of discovery with horizons to explore. Just as a compass helps us plot a course, find our bearings, and explore new worlds, The Compass shows us that scientific endeavours and processes resonate directly with our own lives, blending research stories with those of young people in Leicester beginning their own STEM journeys
Type Of Art	Artistic/Creative Exhibition
Year Produced	2022
Impact	I had two people contact me from the exhibit to say that they had seen it, recognized me and my work and were influenced by it.
URL	https://britishsciencefestival.org/event/the-compass/

Title	Video demonstrating chemical ecology techniques
Description	Created a video to be played at the Rothamsted Research open day to demonstrate the general sequence of steps involved in chemical ecology research.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2019
Impact	Video was played to the general public at the chemical ecology stand at the Rothamsted Research open day. The video allowed the general public to see how our research is undertaken, resulting in discussions and questions.

Description	Contribution to non-academic impacts: The work has led to many interactions with non-academic stakeholders involved in crop protection business, policy and practice, including 12 new collaborative R&D projects with industry and farmer information bulletins. In June 2018, the BBSRC commissioned the KTN to produce a draft business engagement for the SCP programme. Delivered in January 2019, and based on interviews with knowledgeable stakeholders, this report recognised a clear role for SCP in academic research with a focus on translation. It noted RRes' excellent track record in this space and the difficulty in steering a course between hypothesis testing, proof-of-concept studies and commercialisation activities. Rothamsted's value as an independent voice and 'honest-broker' in working with industry to optimise and validate new technology was highlighted. RRes was encouraged to consider strategies to clearly demarcate research and commercialisation activities, through potential establishment of start-up and spin-out enterprises to develop IP and commercial opportunities. Based on this report and other institutional initiatives, the RRes Knowledge Exchange & Commercialisation (KEC) team are developing a 'Building Impact' plan for the programme (see above). The work has led to many interactions with non-academic stakeholders involved in crop protection business, policy and practice, including 12 new collaborative R&D projects with industry and farmer information bulletins. In June 2018, the BBSRC commissioned the KTN to produce a draft business engagement for the SCP programme. Delivered in January 2019, and based on interviews with knowledgeable stakeholders, this report recognised a clear role for SCP in academic research with a focus on translation. It noted RRes' excellent track record in this space and the difficulty in steering a course between hypothesis testing, proof-of-concept studies and commercialisation activities. Rothamsted's value as an independent voice and 'honest-broker' in working with industry to optimise and validate new technology was highlighted. RRes was encouraged to consider strategies to clearly demarcate research and commercialisation activities, through potential establishment of start-up and spin-out enterprises to develop IP and commercial opportunities. Based on this report and other institutional initiatives, the RRes Knowledge Exchange & Commercialisation (KEC) team are developing a 'Building Impact' plan for the programme (see above).
First Year Of Impact	2018
Sector	Agriculture, Food and Drink
Impact Types	Cultural Economic Policy & public services

Description	2018 FRAG-UK Guide 'Fungicide Resistance Management in Cereals'
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This guide advises on how to best use fungicides taking into account fungicide resistance. Better use and choice of fungicides will improve disease control, avoiding use of fungicides that are not effective, and ensure other inputs such as fertilisers have maximum impact.
URL	https://media.ahdb.org.uk/media/Default/Imported%20Publication%20Docs/Fungicide%20resistance%20manag...

Description	Appointment to Defra Science Advisory Council - as from Jan 2019
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Contribution to discussions on glyphosate use and alternatives in the EU (invitation to ENDURE Executive Committee)
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee

Description	Global Council for Innovation in Rapeseed and Canola (GCIRC) - Invited onto Crop Protection Committee
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee

Description	Identification of a new pathogen species affecting Brassicas in the Pacific North West USA - proposed new name Pyrenopeziza cascadia. A paper has been submitted for publication. UK plant health authority was informed
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health

Description	Insecticide usage
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Involvement in IRAG-UK including updates to Insecticide Resistance Guidelines used by Government Regulator (CRD-Defra), Agronomists and Growers

Description	Member of EFSA plant Health Panel July 2015-June 2018
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Co-authored over 80 scientific opinions, pest categorisations and pest risk assessments published by the European Food Safety Authority to inform the EU and EPPO on policy to safeguard plant health in the EU. This included providing evidence to support trade restrictions in a wide range of plant-based products, such as plants, fruits or seeds that can only be imported from a pest-free location, or produced in a regulated way, imported without soil, inspections made at the border, or even complete bans on imports from a certain geography.
URL	http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/plant-health

Description	Member of Weed Resistance Action Group Steering Committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	The work of the Weed Resistance Action group provides guidelines to support the sustainable use of herbicides in agroecosystems. Whilst hard to quantify the production, distribution and hosting online of guidance documents for the sustainable use of herbicides helps to inform the regulatory environment, provides guidance to growers and other practitioners and impacts on the environmental impacts of herbicide use.
URL	https://ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/wrag

Description	Membership of Defra Science Advisory Council
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee

Description	Membership of European Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) Workshop on Insect Pest Management in oilseed rape
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Reccommendations published on EPPO website and will influence research priorities guidelines and regulation for future plant protection
URL	https://www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/2017_meetings/wk_ipm_oilseed_rape

Description	Plant Health Summit for Future Leaders
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL	https://planthealth.rsb.org.uk/the-conversation.html/

Description	Publishing your Work with Lin Field
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This three hour workshop was run by myself and Lin Field twice at Rothamsted Research for PhD (20/2/2019) students then for post-graduate students (1/3/2019), to inform them about the process and practicalities of publishing scientific research.

Description	Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Agriscience committee
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Steve Foster. Chair of Insecticide Resistance Action Group (IRAG-UK)
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	IRAG-UK is made up of Experts on Agriculture, Insecticide Resistance, Policy Makers and Chemical Regulators who meet to discuss issues with Pest Contol on UK crops.

Description	Steve Foster. Co author of over 12 Guidelines and Resistance Alerts in 2018, e.g.: insecticide resistance status in UK potato crops
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	These Guidelines and Alerts have provided up to date information and advice on the Insecticide Resistance Status of key UK pests on agriculture and horticulture.

Description	Temporary hearing expert for European Food and Safety Agency (EFSA) Fungicide Working Group
Geographic Reach	Europe
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee
Impact	Following a request from the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) initiated a procedure for the evaluation of data supporting the necessity of the application of fungicide active substances to control a serious danger to plant health within the context of Article 4(7) of Regulation (EC) No. 1107/2009. EFSA established an ad hoc working group (WG) which proposed a methodology for conducting this type of evaluation. The draft protocol was circulated among European Union Member States (MS) for commenting. The aim of this protocol is to enable a consistent and transparent evaluation of submissions made by applicants according to the derogation detailed in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) No. 1107/2009 to assess the lack of other available means capable of controlling an identified serious danger to plant health. Final protocol was published as paper 'Protocol for the evaluation of data concerning the necessity of the application of fungicide active substances to control a serious danger to plant health which cannot be contained by other available means, including non-chemical methods' in EFSA journal.
URL	https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/sp.efsa.2017.EN-1345

Description	Thesis and Viva Skills with Lin Field
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This three hour workshop was run on 5/3/2018 for PhD students at Rothamsted Research in order to inform them of 1) the expectations around a PhD thesis, and 2) the process of a viva. The aim was to give them information on how to start and complete the thesis writing and to prepare for their viva.

Description	Things I Should Know (TISK) seminar series
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	Participants frequently report increases in learning and knowledge and/or changes in behaviours or practice. Topics are often transferrable skills or directly applicable techniques that can be used in BAU practice.

Description	Things I Should Know Seminar Series
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	I have initiated and led a monthly seminar/discussion group to provide guidance on techniques and skills that are necessary to succeed in science but more often than not, are never explicitly taught. The topics we cover will be decided by popular vote and 'experts' can and will be invited to give their opinions. The first instance of this occurred on 22/1/19 and is running once monthly until topics are exhausted.
URL	https://www.yammer.com/rothamsted.ac.uk/#/threads/inGroup?type=in_group&feedId=17156081&view=all

Description	A FAIR community resource for pathogens, hosts and their interactions to enhance global food security and human health
Amount	£557,820 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/S020020/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2019
End	06/2023

Description	AHDB studentship
Amount	£72,300 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2019
End	09/2022

Description	ARABLE: Monitoring for emerging threats to UK OSR crops posed by novel variants and fungicide resistant strains of fungal pathogens
Amount	£59 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/X011917/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2022
End	08/2022

Description	Agritech in China Newton Network : Radar and Aerial Ecology Summer School
Amount	£25,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Rothamsted Research
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2018
End	03/2019

Description	Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
Amount	£11,423 (GBP)
Funding ID	BBS/OS/NW/000001
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	03/2019

Description	Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture
Amount	£13,100 (GBP)
Funding ID	BBS/OS/NW/000001
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2018
End	02/2019

Description	Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture Previously: UK-Brazil Partnership for Yield Stability & Protection in a Changing Climate (PYSP)
Amount	£300,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	BBS/OS/NW/000001
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2015
End	03/2019

Description	Assessing the Efficacy of a Prototype Insecticide Formulation Against Brown Planthoppers (Nilaparvata lugens) on Rice Plants. Experiments conducted by CHAP Solutions and Rothamsted Research on behalf of Adama
Amount	€ 34,000 (EUR)
Organisation	ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd
Sector	Private
Country	Israel
Start	03/2019
End	06/2019

Description	BB/GCRF-IAA/17/18
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/GCRF-IAA/17/18
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	02/2018

Description	BBSRC DTP (Nottingham)
Amount	£123,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2017
End	09/2021

Description	BBSRC Infrastructure grant
Amount	£197,700 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start
End	03/2018

Description	BBSRC Nottingham DTP studentship
Amount	£75,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	1935371
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2017
End	09/2021

Description	BR2CSFB - A toolkit for breeding resistance to adult and larval herbivory by the cabbage stem flea beetle
Amount	£408,513 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/V015621/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2021
End	09/2025

Description	Bacteria: Advancement of Control and Knowledge to Save Threatened Oak and Protect them for Future Generations
Amount	£2,032,146 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/T010886/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2020
End	08/2023

Description	Bee toxicogenomics
Amount	£50,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Bayer
Department	Bayer CropScience Ltd
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2017
End	12/2017

Description	Characterising of new inhibitor for Septoria leaf bloth control
Amount	£66,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Sumitomo Corporation
Sector	Private
Country	Japan
Start	09/2017
End	09/2018

Description	Colaborative research: Modelling and inference for spatiotemporal climate impacts on complex ecosystems
Amount	$426,000 (USD)
Organisation	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sector	Public
Country	United States
Start	08/2017
End	08/2020

Description	DFW - Designing Future Wheat - Work package 2 (WP2) - Added value and resilience
Amount	£7,068,842 (GBP)
Funding ID	BBS/E/C/000I0250
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2017
End	03/2023

Description	Defra
Amount	£80,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2017
End	11/2018

Description	Detection of fungal plant pathogen spores using Advanced AI and Imaging (AAII)
Amount	£139,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	99527
Organisation	Innovate UK
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2021
End	03/2022

Description	Development of novel semiochemicals for crop protection
Amount	£551,216 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/R019681/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2018
End	04/2022

Description	EcoStack
Amount	€ 9,963,866 (EUR)
Funding ID	773554
Organisation	European Commission H2020
Sector	Public
Country	Belgium
Start	08/2018
End	09/2023

Description	Flexible talent mobility award
Amount	£6,826 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	03/2019

Description	GCRF
Amount	£374,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2017
End	09/2020

Description	GCRF
Amount	£743,801 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/P023223/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2017
End	03/2019

Description	GCRF Impact Accelerator Award (17/18)
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	01/2018

Description	GCRF-IAA
Amount	£33,439 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/GCRF-IAA/18
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2017
End	02/2017

Description	High-throughput discovery of natural product fungicides targeting Zymoseptoria tritici
Amount	£23 (GBP)
Organisation	Crop Health and Protection
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2022
End	03/2023

Description	In planta SDHI fungicide sensitivity testing of Zymoseptoria tritici strains
Amount	£16,877 (GBP)
Organisation	Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd
Sector	Private
Country	Japan
Start	04/2017
End	11/2017

Description	Industry
Amount	£40,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Bayer
Department	Bayer CropScience Ltd
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2018
End	06/2018

Description	Industry (title confidential)
Amount	£91,000 (GBP)
Organisation	BASF
Sector	Private
Country	Germany
Start	11/2017
End	08/2018

Description	Industry - Syngenta
Amount	€ 20,000 (EUR)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Sector	Private
Country	Switzerland
Start	11/2019
End	03/2020

Description	Industry - Syngenta France
Amount	€ 43,000 (EUR)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Sector	Private
Country	Switzerland
Start	03/2021
End	12/2021

Description	Industry funding - title confidential
Amount	€ 20,000 (EUR)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Sector	Private
Country	Switzerland
Start	01/2019
End	06/2019

Description	InnovateUK - Productive and sustainable crop and ruminant agricultural systems - Spraysaver project
Amount	£1,291,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	26757
Organisation	Innovate UK
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2019
End	03/2022

Description	John Oldacre Foundation Studentship
Amount	£95,000 (GBP)
Organisation	John Oldacre Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2018
End	09/2021

Description	LBNet
Amount	£50,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2018
End	07/2018

Description	Management of aphid and BYDV risk in winter cereals
Amount	£190,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	21120077a
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2019
End	12/2022

Description	Maximising the effective life of fungicides to control oilseed rape diseases, through improved resistance management
Amount	£161,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2017
End	12/2019

Description	NERC standard grant
Amount	£622,451 (GBP)
Funding ID	NE/P0023404/1
Organisation	Natural Environment Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2017
End	07/2020

Description	Nottingham DTP studentship
Amount	£74,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2019
End	09/2024

Description	Novel Semiochemical-Based Management of Fall Armyworm (FAW) in Brazil using Companion Crops
Amount	£46,176 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/R020000/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2018
End	10/2019

Description	OTSB II - SIFT-MS (Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry) as a novel surveillance tool for real-time monitoring of cryptic pests affecting livestock production
Amount	£5,634 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/SCA/Rothamsted/17
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2017
End	02/2018

Description	Pathoscout - portable DNA analysis for precision agriculture
Amount	£493,938 (GBP)
Funding ID	InnovateUK10054346 (TS/X014312/1)
Organisation	Innovate UK
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2023
End	02/2025

Description	PhD studentship
Amount	£60,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Department	Syngenta Crop Protection
Sector	Private
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2017
End	11/2021

Description	Potential of LIDAR (LIight Detection And Ranging) for real-time monitoring of pest and beneficial insects in agricultural crops (Phase I-III)
Amount	£179,022 (GBP)
Organisation	Bayer
Sector	Private
Country	Germany
Start	04/2017
End	04/2019

Description	Potential of LIDAR (LIight Detection And Ranging) for real-time monitoring of pest and beneficial insects in agricultural crops (Phase IV)
Amount	£50,033 (GBP)
Organisation	BASF
Sector	Private
Country	Germany
Start	03/2019
End	12/2019

Description	RI-UoN Future Food Beacon Fellowship
Amount	£26,600 (GBP)
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2020
End	01/2021

Description	SWBio DTP
Amount	£95,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2017
End	09/2021

Description	SWBio-DTP - Erika Kroll - Fusarium disease of wheat - exploring tissue specific host-pathogen interactions using a systems biology approach.
Amount	£120,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2020
End	09/2024

Description	Scaled-up Production and Validation of Fruit Midge Pheromones for Pest Management
Amount	£515,489 (GBP)
Funding ID	10020860
Organisation	Innovate UK
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2022
End	01/2025

Description	Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2021
Amount	£6,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2021
End	06/2021

Description	Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2022
Amount	£6,454 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2022
End	05/2022

Description	Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2023
Amount	£11,036 (GBP)
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2023
End	06/2023

Description	Smart Armyworm Surveillance (SAS)
Amount	$100,000 (USD)
Funding ID	OPP1199447
Organisation	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United States
Start	11/2018
End	03/2020

Description	Susceptibility of Sitka spruce to Ips typographus
Amount	£249,390 (GBP)
Organisation	Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2020
End	03/2023

Description	Syngenta Switserland
Amount	£200,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Sector	Private
Country	Switzerland
Start	02/2017
End	02/2019

Description	Syngenta monitoring contract
Amount	£100,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Sector	Private
Country	Switzerland
Start	03/2022
End	12/2022

Description	The potential of a natural synergist (SYN-A) to increase the potency of pyrethroids against the cabbage stem flea beetle pest and effects on its beneficial parasitoid, Microctonus brassicae [BBSRC Lawes Agricultural Trust Innovation Scheme]
Amount	£13,715 (GBP)
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2022
End	03/2023

Description	UK-China Centre for the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture (CSIA) Seed-Funding Award Third Call 2017
Amount	£27,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Centre for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture, Rothamsted
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2018
End	03/2019

Description	UK-China Centre for the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture (CSIA). Seed funding. Third call 2017.
Amount	£25,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Nanjing Agricultural University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	China
Start	03/2018
End	03/2019

Description	Ultra-rapid diagnostic tool for plant disease infection adapted for field use
Amount	£150,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/V017284/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2021
End	08/2022

Description	Understanding evolution of fungicide resistance in wheat blast field populations in Brazil; can we learn lessons for future disease management?
Amount	£80,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	BB/R022747/1
Organisation	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2018
End	04/2019

Description	Work Solutions - James Seager
Amount	£4,160 (GBP)
Organisation	Hertfordshire County Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2018
End	07/2019

Title	Alopecurus myosuroides Virus-mediated Reverse Genetics
Description	We have optimised transient expression techniques based on viral induced gene silencing with Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus (BSMV) (Lee, W.-S., J. Rudd, and K. Kanyuka, Virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) for functional analysis of wheat genes involved in Zymoseptoria tritici susceptibility and resistance. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2015. 79: p. 84-88) and over-expression with Fox-tail Mosaic Virus (FoMV) (Bouton, C., et al., Foxtail mosaic virus: A Viral Vector for Protein Expression in Cereals. Plant Physiology, 2018. 177(4): p. 1352-1367) for use in black-grass. We have repeatable robust loss-of-function using BSMV against PHYTOENE DESATURASE and can express GFP using FoMV. We can also knock down expression of an endogenous gene and demonstrate it is necessary for herbicide resistance or overexpress the basta resistance gene and confer resistance to glufosinate.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	As far as we are aware, we are the first to successfully transform black-grass by any method. Therefore, all of the activities stemming from continued optimisation and development of these methods will be novel and project specific. However, the implications for weed biology and more general plant biology is important, as it demonstrates the efficacy of virus-mediated reverse genetics for generating whole-plant transformations for gain or loss of function. Our publication on these methods has garnered significant interest from the academic press and general media. It has also led to several conversations with industry about potential follow on activities.
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/gene-breakthrough-fight-against-weeds

Title	Alopecurus myosuroides genome
Description	Globally, weedy plants result in more crop yield loss than plant pathogens and insect pests combined. Much of the success of weeds rests with their ability to rapidly adapt in the face of human-mediated environmental management and change. The evolution of resistance to herbicides is an emblematic example of this rapid adaptation. Here, we focus on Alopecurus myosuroides (blackgrass), the most impactful agricultural weed in Europe. To gain insights into the evolutionary history and genomic mechanisms underlying adaptation in blackgrass, we assembled and annotated its large, complex genome. We show that non-target site herbicide resistance is oligogenic and likely evolves from standing genetic variation. We present evidence for divergent selection of resistance at the level of the genome in wild, evolved populations, though at the transcriptional level, resistance mechanisms are underpinned by similar patterns of up-regulation of stress- and defence-responsive gene families. These gene families are expanded in the blackgrass genome, suggesting that the large, duplicated, and dynamic genome plays a role in enabling rapid adaptation in blackgrass. These observations have wide significance for understanding rapid plant adaptation in novel stressful environments.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2021
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	This genome will not only be integrated into the IWGC's CropPedia database and uploaded to appropriate global databases (e.g. NCBI or EBI), it will enable research to be done that cannot otherwise be accomplished.
URL	https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472569v1

Title	DNA extraction from spores collected onto filters from rain
Description	Different types of filter were tested for their suitability to collect biological particles present in rain collected using a surface-sterilised large funnel. In lab conditions, different filters were tested using a spore suspension of Pyrenopeziza brassicae conidia to assess the best method to remove the spores form the filter and extract their DNA with maximal yield. The best method was to reverse the filter and pump a small volume of foam through which dislodged the spores and collapsed down into a small volume of liquid (1mL) which could then be processed using a standard DNA extraction method.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The method will be written up as a research paper and submitted for publication

Title	DOSY-based NMR experiments for resolving complex mixtures in extracts
Description	Developed improvements to existing NMR experiments for analysing complex mixtures from samples unique to our field of research. Diffusion-ordered spectroscopy type NMR experiment parameters have been optimised for our samples types for applications not traditionally used for DOSY experiments.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The method has already been used to answer a long standing question in soil phosphorus research in collaboration with scientists in S2N ISPG based at Rothamsted Research.

Title	Identification of a locus for target site integration in Fusarium graminearum
Description	We developed a vector system for target site integration (TSI) in an intergenic chromosomic region of the Fg genome. Insertion of the expression cassette in this chromosomic region (TSI locus1) does not alter either fungal growth of fungal virulence. Integrations in the TSI locus1 allow the expression of different genes fusions and activities of virulence specific promoters were not altered by integration into the TSI locus 1. Complementation tests were successfully done on three test genes. Finally, we established a protocol to study protein secretion in wheat coleoptiles using confocal microscopy and the TSI locus1 for stable expression of different gene fusions.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The TSI locus1 can be used for diverse studies including promoter activity analysis, secretion and gene complementation and localisation studies. Therefore, the vector system has already been used in multiple ongoing BBSRC funded research projects in the laboratory. A PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher have successfully used the vector system for gene complementation studies. The vector system will also be used to study protein secretion in a new collaborative project with US researchers. The project aims to identify fungal secreted proteinases that can be used to engineer fungal resistance in wheat. The new vector system is available from ADDGene.
URL	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40694-024-00171-8

Title	In silico screening of ligands against olfactory proteins
Description	Adaption of techniques used in the pharmaceutical industry to identify target compounds with high affinity for olfactory proteins as a means of rationally designing compounds that can block the signalling system in insects using in silico modelling and docking studies. This tool will allow target synthesis of a smaller number of molecules for biological testing that previous attempts.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	Initial in silico docking studies have identified a structural analogue of a natural pheromone component with predicted binding strength several orders of magnitude higher than the natural compound.

Title	Next generation VOC biosensors
Description	Various different optoresponsive biomolecule immobilisation supports have been tested for activity when challenged with various plant stress volatile organic compounds. This demonstrated the general approach that lacked specificity. Appropriate biomolecules have been immobilised onto the supports in order to confer specificity.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	This method will be written up and IP protected. This approach provides a means for developing next generation VOC sensors for crop protection applications that address several of the shortfalls experienced by current state of the art approaches.

Title	PHI-Canto
Description	This community curation tool and framework tool permits authors of in scope peer reviewed publication to manually enter all the data and findings from their publication into the open access PHI-base database, using controlled ontologies and evidence codes.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Highly fragment data sets on any pathogen host interaction or any chemical interaction with a pathogen species, published in all peer review articles is converted to FAIR data
URL	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84658

Title	PHI-NETS
Description	Protein-Protein interaction Networks have been developed and published for 13 pathogenic ascomycete species that infect cereal and non-cereal species
Type Of Material	Model of mechanisms or symptoms - non-mammalian in vivo
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The new PHI-NET resource permits for the 1st time comparative genomics analyses between multiple ascomycete fungal species by network analyses.
URL	http://www.phi-base.org/

Title	Provision of Fungal plant pathogen cultures
Description	Rothamsted holds and curates a collection of fungal plant pathogens, which are used for research purposes and can be made available to other researchers subject to an MTA and small fee to cover costs of production and dispatch. The collection dates from the 1960s in some cases but new isolates collected since then continue to be added to the collection.
Type Of Material	Biological samples
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	We have donated a large number of isolates to the OREGIN culture collection.

Title	Semiochemical controlled release profile determination
Description	A method for the determination of the rate of release of semiochemicals from controlled release formulations has been developed. This method was required to allow for determining appropriate controlled release formulations to be developed to provide required semiochemicals at the required doses in field. Specifically, controlled release formulations were contained with a glass vessel and the total semiochemical released as volatile components were collected over a period of hours - days. The total volatile component was analysed using GC against standard concentration curves.
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	This tool can be used to determine exact formulations for controlled release formulations required to give the required dose for maximum effect. This will be required for providing commercial ready lures of semiochemicals developed during the project.

Title	The Pathogen-Host Interactions Database (PHI-base)
Description	This is described in the Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHI-base
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	PHI-base makes two data releases per annum in May and November. In the reporting period the following has occurred The latest release of PHI-base, version 4.15, was on 2 May 2023 (http://www.phi-base.org/releaseNote.htm). Compared to version 4.14, released on 1 November 2022, the increase in data is: 384 genes, 1,069 interactions, 237 publications, 2 new pathogens, and 2 new hosts. The number of diseases was reduced by one, due to data cleaning efforts removing redundant and incorrect disease names. We continue to freely share phenotyping data with Ensembl ( since 2011), FungiDB (since 2019) and UniProtKB (since 2020). UK and international resource usage trends: PHI-base > 25,800 and > 1007 full database downloads, > 6,000 unique users and > 400 registered API users. Total users > 119,700 during the reporting period April 2023-March 2024.
URL	http://www.phi-base.org/

Title	VOC aroma detection by enose system
Description	Healthy and infested plant aromas were collected using a headspace setup and interrogated by an enose system. After testing with 1 hour head space collections the system was able to separate the healthy and infested plant samples
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	This opens the possibly of using this technology to detected infested or infected crops.

Title	You Tube videos of how to use the high volume cyclone spore trap
Description	A series of videos were made to explain to collaborators how to use a high volume spore trap.
Type Of Material	Improvements to research infrastructure
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Collaborators in Brazil and China were able to view the methods and set up devices in their countries to enable sampling using a standardised methodology.
URL	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPMAAzkgSwpay00Q6tgU2OiBmpYusWnBo

Title	YouTube videos for high volume cyclone spore trap
Description	Training videos were produced to allow collaborators to set-up and use a new spore-sampling device
Type Of Material	Technology assay or reagent
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Better training of collaborators
URL	https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPMAAzkgSwpay00Q6tgU2OiBmpYusWnBo

Title	Control of dispersive diseases using a reaction diffusion model
Description	The model aims to optimise strategies of disease control when the control resources are limited, such as in the case of Cassava Virus disease in Africa
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The model has elucidated the need to apply control when a certain incidence is reached.

Title	Data from: Contrasting population structure and demographic history of cereal aphids in different environmental and agricultural landscapes
Description	Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms files and phylogonetic trees of S. miscanthi samples collected in China and S. avenae from the UK used to study the population genetics analyses of these species. These are: China_samples_vcf.zip: dataset of SNPs from S. miscanthi sampled in 10 populations of China obtained using FreeBayes (in vcf format). China_samples_vcf_filtered.zip: SNPs from S. miscanthi after filtering the file China_samples_vcf.zip using vcftools (max-missing 0.75, minDP 3, mac 3, minQ 30, remove-indels, thin 2000, max-missing 0.9, thin 5000). This file was used in all population genetic analyses of the Chinese populations in the paper, transforming to the appropriate formats. China_samples_SNPs.fas: fasta file of phased SNPs used to estimate the phylogeny of S. miscanthi haplotypes using RAxML. China_RAxML_phylogeny_newick.tre: RAxML phylogenetic tree in newick format obtained with China_samples_SNPs.fas. England_samples_vcf.zip: dataset of SNPs from S. avenae sampled in 12 populations of England obtained using FreeBayes (in vcf format). England_samples_vcf_filtered.zip: SNPs from S. avenae after filtering the file England_samples_vcf.zip using vcftools (max-missing 0.5, mac 3, minQ 30, minDP 3, max-missing 0.5, exclude individuals with 50% missing data, max-missing 0.75, remove-indels, thin 2000). This file was used in all population genetic analyses of the English populations in the paper, transforming the vcf to the corresponding formats. England_samples_SNPs.fas: fasta file of phased SNPs. England_samples_SNPs_polymorphic.fas: fasta file of phased SNPs used in the phylogenetic reconstruction of S. avenae haplotypes using RAxML. This file is the same as England_samples_SNPs.fas after removing sites which were not polymorphic (e.g. a site that contains N and T in different samples is not considered polymorphic for RAxML and has to be removed) England_RAxML_phylogeny_newick.tre: RAxML phylogenetic tree in newick format obtained with England_samples_SNPs_polymorphic.fas.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
URL	http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.k0p2ngf5x

Title	Data from: Evolutionary trade-offs of insecticide resistance - the fitness costs associated with target-site mutations in the nAChR of Drosophila melanogaster
Description	The evolution of resistance to drugs and pesticides poses a major threat to human health and food security. Neonicotinoids are highly effective insecticides used to control agricultural pests. They target the insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and mutations of the receptor that confer resistance have been slow to develop, with only one field-evolved mutation being reported to date. This is an arginine to threonine substitution at position 81 of the nAChR_ß1 subunit in neonicotinoid resistant aphids. To validate the role of R81T in neonicotinoid resistance and to test whether it may confer any significant fitness costs to insects, CRISPR/Cas9 was used to introduce an analogous mutation in the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. Flies carrying R81T showed an increased tolerance (resistance) to neonicotinoid insecticides, accompanied by a significant reduction in fitness. In comparison, flies carrying a deletion of the whole nAChR_a6 subunit, the target-site of spinosyns, showed an increased tolerance to this class of insecticides but presented almost no fitness deficits.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2020
Provided To Others?	Yes
URL	http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.v9s4mw6sc

Title	Incorporating terminal velocities into Lagrangian stochastic models of particle dispersal in the atmospheric boundary layer
Description	Lagrangian stochastic models have been used widely to predict spore and pollen dispersal. Previous models predicted that particles become uniformly distributed throughout the air column, although this wasn't supported by experimental studies which demonstrated spore concentrations (and pollen concentrations) declined exponentially with height in unstable air. These models correct that error so that model predictions for aerial density profiles agree with the experimental observations of Hirst et al. (1967) and with observations of ground-level concentrations. The models also predict that particles are moving downwind marginally more slowly than the wind itself.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	The new modelling approach can be extended to predict the dispersal of small insects (including crop pests such as aphid vectors) with active flight behaviours.

Title	Light leaf spot and phoma leaf spot disease forecasts
Description	Rothamsted has provided on its website or in collaboration with the AHDB (https://ahdb.org.uk/lightleafspot) an interactive disease forecasting tool for growers and agronomists to estimate disease pressure for the coming season based on weather and in the case of light leaf spot, also the amount of disease the previous season.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Improvements have been made in 2018 for example different sources of met data woere adapted to drive the model.
URL	https://ahdb.org.uk/lightleafspot

Title	Model for integrated resistance management
Description	A model of potato late blight, incorporating cultivar resistance and fungicide applications and selection for virulence and fungicide insensitivity.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	The model demonstrates that resistance to a control options (for example a fungicide) can be delayed by alternative control options.

Title	Models of insect flight patterns
Description	Insect flight pattern models have been developed using data from laboratory studies and radar data
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	None

Title	Pathogen fitness landscape
Description	The model describes evolution/selection between many different pathogen strains in one or more fields, allowing us to consider selection in a pathogen community.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	This model has been used to re-play the evolutionary pathway of fungicide insensitivity in agriculture to help us understand how to delay selection towards the most insensitive pathogen strains.

Title	Pathogen-Host Interactions database
Description	Pathogen-Host Interactions database
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2019
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Two new releases Version 4.15 May 2nd 2023 Version 4.14 November 1st 2022
URL	http://www.phi-base.org

Title	Pest Genomics Initiative
Description	A pre-competitive project between three partners, Rothamsted, Bayer, and Syngenta to sequence and assemble high quality genomes for 20 insect agricultural pests of world-wide importance.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2023
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Non recorded at present
URL	https://www.pestgenomics.org/

Title	The Movement of Small Insects in the Convective Boundary Layer: Linking patterns to processes
Description	In fine warm weather, the daytime convective atmosphere over land areas is full of small migrant insects, among them serious pests (e.g. some species of aphid), but also many beneficial species (e.g. natural enemies of pests). For many years intensive aerial trapping studies were the only way of determining the density profiles of these small insects, and for taxon-specific studies trapping is still necessary. However, if we wish to determine generic behavioural responses to air movements shown by small day-migrating insects as a whole, the combination of millimetre-wavelength 'cloud radars' and Doppler lidar now provides virtually ideal instrumentation. Here we examine the net vertical velocities of > 1 million insect targets, relative to the vertical motion of the air in which they are flying, as a succession of fair-weather convective cells pass over the recording site in Oklahoma, USA. The resulting velocity measurements are interpreted in terms of the flight behaviours of small insects. These behaviours are accounted for by a newly-developed Lagrangian stochastic model of weakly-flying insect movements in the convective boundary layer; a model which is consistent with classic characterisations of small insect aerial density profiles. We thereby link patterns to processes.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2017
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Cited as a means of monitoring and predicting insect movement over large geographic areas

Title	The Pathogen-Host Interactions Database (PHIPO functionality)
Description	1) The Pathogen -Host Interactions Database ( PHI-base) (www.PHI-base.org) captures curated information on the targets of antifungal chemistries used in agriculture and horticulture. The database now contains 346 chemical target entries, 98% of which are allele variants that lead to resistance to the chemistry 2) Over the past year we have captured CHEBI identifiers, CAS numbers, and documented the mode of action for 149 commercial antifungal chemistries, for use by authors from the fungicide community using the new self-curation tool called PHI-Canto. Tab-delimited look up lists have been generated and made available for use by users. 3) Anti-infectives with CHEBI ids are being turned into precomposed terms and will be available for use in PHI-Canto for author curation. Terms are grouped as 'resistance to chemical' or 'sensitive to chemical'. Curation using these terms will enable maximum interoperability as the CHEBI ids will be used within the ontology term logical definition. 4) A species-neutral ontology called PHIPO (Pathogen-Host Interactions Phenotype Ontology) has been developed in a BBSRC BBR funded project (BB/K020056/1). PHIPO contains descriptive phenotype terms which enables improved phenotype searches across many pathogen and host species that are important for animal and human health and agriculture. Within this SCP project the past high level chemistry PHI-base phenotype terms have been recorded as part of the PHIPO slim terms to enable data continuity between past and future curation methods. PHIPO was formally registered with the OBO Foundry[1] in November 2018 (https://www.obofoundry.org/ontology/phipo.html), and is available on GitHub[2]. (https://github.com/PHI-base/phipo/blob/master/phipo.owl).
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	None to date to report
URL	http://www.PHI-base.org

Title	Tree nursery economics model
Description	The model calculates how does the variability in demand for trees affect the probability of introducing a new disease
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Tree nursery managers welcomed this model and indicated that they would bring the results and analysis to government to try to influence policy

Title	Weather-dependent pathogen development in Puccinia striiformis on wheat
Description	This model describes the growth of Puccinia striiformis, incorporating the dependence of the pathogen's life-cycle parameters on the weather.
Type Of Material	Computer model/algorithm
Year Produced	2018
Provided To Others?	No
Impact	A better understanding of how diseases may change in a warming climate.

Description	AAII project with Platform Kinetics funded by InnovateUK
Organisation	Platform Kinetics
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Wrote a research proposal together and will start the project in April 2021
Collaborator Contribution	Wrote a research proposal together and will start the project in April 2021
Impact	none yet
Start Year	2020

Description	AHDB Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2019
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Department	Cereals and Oilseeds
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Provision of air sampling equipment to several UK-based sites. Processing of weekly samples (Apr-May 2019) and quantification of airborne spores of Sclerotina sclerotiorum for presentation by AHDB
Collaborator Contribution	Presentation of results
Impact	non yet
Start Year	2019

Description	AHDB Sclerotinia spore monitoring 2021
Organisation	Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	My lab will coordinate a network of six UK air sampling sites and quantify daily samples each week for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum fungus, which is a pathogen of oilseed rape. Results will be reported on the AHDB website
Collaborator Contribution	provision of the website and funding
Impact	none yet
Start Year	2021

Description	BBSRC USA-UK partnering award: Harnessing next-generation sequencing technologies for eco-evolutionary studies of herbicide resistance and weed biology
Organisation	Colorado State University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Regular joint lab meetings with Gaines lab. Visits by Neve to CSU and hosting of CSU staff at Rothamsted. A number of joint initiatives, including working together on a GCRF-IAA funded project, co-organisation of a working group and workshop towards establishment of an international consortium for weed genomics. Joint publications. Work towards establishing a collaborative USA-UK black-grass genome project.
Collaborator Contribution	As above
Impact	Joint papers. Weed genomics workshops.
Start Year	2016

Description	Bangor PhD
Organisation	Bangor University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Joint ENVISION PhD project has been awarded in March 2020 on host-fungus chemical interactions. The project will start in October 2020.
Collaborator Contribution	Joint supervision of PhD student.
Impact	Collaboration to start in October 2020.
Start Year	2020

Description	Bayer Crop Science: Neve/Edwards
Organisation	Bayer
Country	Germany
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Neve applied for a BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship. The student is based at Rothamsted Research (Neve as PI), and registered for at Newcastle University (Edwards as co-supervisor). The studentship title is "exploring the evolutionary dynamics of non-target site resistance (NTSR) in Alopecurus myosuroides". The student's work is a direct outcome of previous work completed as part of this grant. We are exploring, the expression of a panel of over-expressed genes that underpin NTSR in a broad set of populations collected during the BGRI project. This work is providing validation for those expression-based markers of NTSR in a broad range of wild, herbicide resistant populations, exploring the co-segregation of markers with various cross-resistance phenotypes in pedigreed black-grass populations and addressing the question 'is the genotypic basis of NTSR similar across a range of populations?'
Collaborator Contribution	Bayer are CASE partner, providing scientific and financial support. The student spends a 2-3 month period each year at Bayer's Weed Resistance Competence Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, where she is provided with training and access to equipment, resources and expertise.
Impact	No outputs as yet.
Start Year	2015

Description	Bayer-funded PhD position with the student enrolled at University of Plymouth
Organisation	Bayer
Country	Germany
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Virus-mediated reverse genetics (VMRG) has been used in Alopecurus myosuroides to transiently reduce gene expression by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) or over-express a protein of interest with virus-mediated overexpression (VOX). Our group is able to consistently and effectively use these tools to recreate the widely-accepted visual controls of photobleaching (using VIGS against PHYTOENE DESATURASE) and gain of fluorescence (using VOX to drive GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN) in black-grass and VOX was used to induce glufosinate resistance via heterologous expression of the bar resistance gene. These technical breakthroughs are a great advance on current cell-culture techniques or the use of heterologous expression systems because it works in the plant species or even biotype of interest and results in transient whole plant transformation. As VMRG have already been applied to other monocots including grass crops as well as dicots, we hypothesize that this technology can be extended to other globally important weeds of interest enabling hypothesis-led reverse genetics to be conducted in these plants quickly and effectively. Our contribution to this project is to expand these protocols to address research questions in globally important weeds.
Collaborator Contribution	Bayer Crop Sciences has indicated they will fully fund this PhD project. This directly demonstrates their interest in developing this science, extending functional validation of genes of interest (e.g. reverse genetics) in additional non-model, high-impact, agricultural weeds. They are also committed to Co-Design the project, specifically in the choice of weed species of interest. They will provide seeds for resistant and sensitive biotypes of each of these weeds and give guidance on the herbicides that should be used to assess the phenotypic consequences of changes to NTSR genes of interest. The Post-Graduate teams at both RRes and University of Plymouth are engaged with the project and supervisory teams. There are placement opportunities available with both University of Plymouth and Bayer AG. Early in the project to make use of the image acquisition and analysis expertise at the Littlejohn research group at the University of Plymouth (Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan, whole plant fluorescence imaging systems and extensive Image analysis expertise) to refine plant phenotyping protocols, add increased definition through time-course phenotyping, and allow sub-cellular imaging of study plant to be carried out. Later in the project Bayer will allow the student, for a period of a maximum of two (2) months, to attend its research establishments at Frankfurt Hoechst during the Project period and for the purpose of the Project. Bayer will, at its sole discretion, designate the Industrial Supervisor in consultation with the other Parties.
Impact	Agreements in place, the PhD position has been advertised, interviewed for, and offered. The student will start 1st October 2022.
Start Year	2020

Description	Bayer-funded PhD position with the student enrolled at University of Plymouth
Organisation	University of Plymouth
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Virus-mediated reverse genetics (VMRG) has been used in Alopecurus myosuroides to transiently reduce gene expression by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) or over-express a protein of interest with virus-mediated overexpression (VOX). Our group is able to consistently and effectively use these tools to recreate the widely-accepted visual controls of photobleaching (using VIGS against PHYTOENE DESATURASE) and gain of fluorescence (using VOX to drive GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN) in black-grass and VOX was used to induce glufosinate resistance via heterologous expression of the bar resistance gene. These technical breakthroughs are a great advance on current cell-culture techniques or the use of heterologous expression systems because it works in the plant species or even biotype of interest and results in transient whole plant transformation. As VMRG have already been applied to other monocots including grass crops as well as dicots, we hypothesize that this technology can be extended to other globally important weeds of interest enabling hypothesis-led reverse genetics to be conducted in these plants quickly and effectively. Our contribution to this project is to expand these protocols to address research questions in globally important weeds.
Collaborator Contribution	Bayer Crop Sciences has indicated they will fully fund this PhD project. This directly demonstrates their interest in developing this science, extending functional validation of genes of interest (e.g. reverse genetics) in additional non-model, high-impact, agricultural weeds. They are also committed to Co-Design the project, specifically in the choice of weed species of interest. They will provide seeds for resistant and sensitive biotypes of each of these weeds and give guidance on the herbicides that should be used to assess the phenotypic consequences of changes to NTSR genes of interest. The Post-Graduate teams at both RRes and University of Plymouth are engaged with the project and supervisory teams. There are placement opportunities available with both University of Plymouth and Bayer AG. Early in the project to make use of the image acquisition and analysis expertise at the Littlejohn research group at the University of Plymouth (Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan, whole plant fluorescence imaging systems and extensive Image analysis expertise) to refine plant phenotyping protocols, add increased definition through time-course phenotyping, and allow sub-cellular imaging of study plant to be carried out. Later in the project Bayer will allow the student, for a period of a maximum of two (2) months, to attend its research establishments at Frankfurt Hoechst during the Project period and for the purpose of the Project. Bayer will, at its sole discretion, designate the Industrial Supervisor in consultation with the other Parties.
Impact	Agreements in place, the PhD position has been advertised, interviewed for, and offered. The student will start 1st October 2022.
Start Year	2020

Description	Bee toxicogenomics
Organisation	Bayer
Department	Bayer CropScience Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Senior researcher. 2 postdoctoral researchers and 1 research assistant
Collaborator Contribution	Project coordinator. Project partner
Impact	Several publications in preparation. One paper already accepted for publication in Current Biology (March 2018 publication date)
Start Year	2017

Description	Bee toxicogenomics
Organisation	University of Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Senior researcher. 2 postdoctoral researchers and 1 research assistant
Collaborator Contribution	Project coordinator. Project partner
Impact	Several publications in preparation. One paper already accepted for publication in Current Biology (March 2018 publication date)
Start Year	2017

Description	Biocleave (formerly Green Biologics)
Organisation	Green Biologics
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Our research team provided knowledge on key targets needed for crop protection activities. Provided our background knowledge on using recombinant enzymes for production of high value semiochemicals.
Collaborator Contribution	Biocleave has proprietary knowledge for expressing recombinant enzymes from problematic sources.
Impact	Multidisciplinary - molecular biology, synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, entomology, chemical biology Rothamsted Research chemical ecology team and Biocleave jointly applied for BBSRC industrial biotech funding
Start Year	2020

Description	Black grass genome consortium
Organisation	Bayer
Country	Germany
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	In December 2018, we finalised an agreement with Bayer Crop Science and Clemson University to collaborate towards the generation of a high-quality reference genome for the major agricultural weed, Alopecurus myosuroides (blackgrass). Rothamsted is contributing plant material for sequencing and re-sequencing and is making a contribution towards sequencing costs. Once sequence data is available, Rothamsted scientists will contribute towards the analysis of data and the publication of outputs in peer-reviewed journals.
Collaborator Contribution	Clemson University is contributing bioinformatics expertise and time and will lead on the assembly and annotation of a reference genome. Bayer Crop Science are contributing biological material, expertise and consumables costs for sequencing. All parties will work together on data analysis and production of published outputs.
Impact	No current outputs.
Start Year	2018

Description	Black grass genome consortium
Organisation	Clemson University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	In December 2018, we finalised an agreement with Bayer Crop Science and Clemson University to collaborate towards the generation of a high-quality reference genome for the major agricultural weed, Alopecurus myosuroides (blackgrass). Rothamsted is contributing plant material for sequencing and re-sequencing and is making a contribution towards sequencing costs. Once sequence data is available, Rothamsted scientists will contribute towards the analysis of data and the publication of outputs in peer-reviewed journals.
Collaborator Contribution	Clemson University is contributing bioinformatics expertise and time and will lead on the assembly and annotation of a reference genome. Bayer Crop Science are contributing biological material, expertise and consumables costs for sequencing. All parties will work together on data analysis and production of published outputs.
Impact	No current outputs.
Start Year	2018

Description	CABI, Roger Day (Programme Executive, Action on Invasives)
Organisation	CABI
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We have offered to let CABI use data from our pheromone traps to validate the fall armyworm dispersal model being developed under PRISE (see link below). Several of our pheromone traps are placed on the KALRO sites where CABI are also collecting FAW model validation data.
Collaborator Contribution	Data from the bucket and delta traps run by CABI/ KALRO as a part of PRISE have been used informally to assess the trap catches in the digital pheromone traps. This has lead to us trialling different designs of the digital pheromone trap at the KALRO site in Embu.
Impact	Agreed to share management and FAW data with CABI, particularly in view of improving the digital pheromone traps. Improving the image recognition algorithms used for insect ID was also discussed.
Start Year	2019

Description	CONFAP - CNPq research mobility grant
Organisation	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Department	Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
Country	Brazil
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Applied for a research mobility grant, successful 2019. Spent 4 weeks at Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, November 2019. This has resulted in further collaboration and possible funding opportunities.
Collaborator Contribution	Working in the chemical ecology lab at Embrapa for 4 weeks
Impact	Exploration of possible funding opportunities
Start Year	2019

Description	CSIA Alopecurus transcriptomics
Organisation	Nanjing Agricultural University
Country	China
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Our efforts have been toward enabling comparative transcriptomics to be done on herbicide resistant or sensitive Alopecurus myosuroides from the UK against Alopecurus aequalis and Alopecurus japonicus from China. We have designed the experimental approaches that were to be done in parallel in China and the UK, found, negotiated, and secured an appropriate sequencing company, and are leading the comparative analysis.
Collaborator Contribution	Our partners have facilitated the design of the experiments and carried them out in parallel in China to what we were doing here in the UK. They are also conferring with us regarding the analysis that is to be done.
Impact	This collaboration will produce three de novo assemblies of the transcriptomes of A. myosuroides, A. japonicus and A. aequalis. For each species, resistant and sensitive biotypes are being sequenced which will be compared within and between the species. This will produce a large amount of information regarding what is and is not conserved within and between the species with regards to herbicide resistance status.
Start Year	2018

Description	CSIRO-Rothamsted/PBRI workshop: Tracking and forecasting of pest and pathogen movements
Organisation	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Country	Australia
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	We visited CSIRO, Brisbane to discuss the following: 1. Learning and networking o Technical updates/state of research o Ideas for extending current research/knowledge gaps o Increased international collaboration/new insights and perspectives o Understanding of 'migration' - what it means exactly and how it relates to existing research at different scales o Insights into how monitoring of migratory insects could be done more efficiently 2. How technologies could be integrated o Insights into how data and models can be better linked o Insights into how field ecology could be integrated with new techniques like genetics o Synergies between methods and new perspectives on how integration could work in practice: combined, could some methods be more powerful? 3. Applications/possible collaborations o Opportunities for radar and lidar to monitor moths and other insects in Australia o Idendification of applied questions/stakeholder needs/real-world relevance o Priorities and pathways for exotics o Need more research to support on-ground action o Fall Army Worm o Overlap across disciplines (e.g. ocean current research) o Role for isotopes in post-border incursions
Collaborator Contribution	CSIRO organised the meeting at The Ecoprecinct, Brisbane 24-28th Feb 2020. In attendance was several industry partners and levy boards
Impact	We will organise a hackathon in July 2020 with RRes and CSIRO scientists to provide insight into new modelling techniques that could be used to improve biosecurity
Start Year	2020

Description	Chemical Ecology of Oak/Pathogen Interactions
Organisation	Forest Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Principal Investigator
Collaborator Contribution	Co-investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	Collaboration on Aphid Parasitoid Attractants
Organisation	University of Leuven
Country	Belgium
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise in semiochemical identification
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in aphid parasitoid behavior
Impact	Publications are expected
Start Year	2018

Description	Collaboration on Management of Forest Pests
Organisation	Forest Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Expertise in insect chemical ecology
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in forest pest entomology
Impact	Publications produced and more expected
Start Year	2017

Description	Collaboration on identification of biomarkers for below ground pathogens; collaboration with Designing Future Wheat
Organisation	Rothamsted Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise in sample collection, analytical chemistry, data analysis
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in specific crop-pathogen interaction
Impact	Work on going; expected publications and toolkit of identified biomarkers for disease detection applications
Start Year	2018

Description	Collaboration on identification of novel antimicrobial compounds; collaboration with Designing Future Wheat and ASSIST
Organisation	Rothamsted Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise in dereplication of microbial extracts, analytical chemistry, structure elucidation/compound identification
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in microorganisms/microbiology, genetics
Impact	Identification of compounds that demonstrate anti-fungal activity against fungicide resistant crop pathogens. Publications / IP protection expected
Start Year	2018

Description	Collaboration with Embrapa
Organisation	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Country	Brazil
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Expertise in the characterisation of pheromones and other naturally-occurring chemical signals eg plant defence signals, allelochemicals mediating pest-host interactions, using advanced chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques, chemical synthesis. Expertise in the practical application of pheromones and other chemical signals as new interventions against crop pests.
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in the behavioural and chemical ecology of pests affecting Brazilian agriculture, and the practical application of pheromones and other chemical signals as new interventions against Brazilian crop pests.
Impact	12 Peer-review publications; Rothamsted - structure elucidation, electrophysiology; Embrapa - insect behaviour, field experiments; Attractiveness of host plant volatiles to the Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri, is reduced by terpenoids from the non-host Cashew;Revisiting the Male-Produced Aggregation Pheromone of the Lesser Mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae); Identification of a Six-Component Pheromone from a Brazilian population; Identification and field evaluation of the sex pheromone of a Brazilian population of Spodoptera cosmioides; Influence of two acyclic homoterpenes (tetranorpterpenes) on the foraging behaviour of Anthonomus grandis Boh (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); Identification and Expression Profile of Two Putative Odorant-Binding Proteins from the Neotropical Brown Stink Bug, Euschistus heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae); Semiochemicals from herbivory-induced cotton plants enhance the foraging behaviour of the cotton boll weevil Anthonomus grandis; Sex pheromone communication in two sympactric Neotropical stink bug species Chinavia ubica and Chinavia impicticornis (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). ); Attraction of the stink bug egg parasitoid, Telenomus podisi (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) to defence signals from soybean, Glycine max (Fabaceae), activated by treatment with cis-jasmone; cis-Jasmone induces accumulation of defence compounds in wheat, Triticum aestivum; cis-Jasmone as allelopathic agent in inducing plant defence; Response of the aphid parasitoid, Aphidius funebris, to volatiles from undamaged and aphid-infested Centurea nigra; Sex attractant pheromone from the rice stalk bug, Tibraca limbativentris STAL (Hempitera: Pentatomidae).
Start Year	2006

Description	Collaboration with Embrapa trigo
Organisation	Embrapa Trigo
Country	Brazil
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Expertise in analytical chemistry, VOC collection/analysis techniques
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in wheat fungal pathogens
Impact	On going
Start Year	2018

Description	Collaboration with NIAB on wheat pathogens/diseases
Organisation	National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Volatile sample collection techniques, Mass spectrometry and data analysis, semiochemcial knowledge.
Collaborator Contribution	Experts on wheat pathogens/diseases and identification
Impact	This collaboration has led to funding via Gate on designing a sentinel sensor system for air-borne viral and fungal pathogens. In collaboration with Manchester University and Sony UK
Start Year	2019

Description	Collaboration with Prof Bruce Grieve on pathogen detection
Organisation	University of Manchester
Department	School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise on chemistry, volatile collections, chemical ecology
Collaborator Contribution	Electronics, sensor design, material science
Impact	Through this collaboration a grant via Gates foundation has been won. This collaboration also includes NIAB and Sony UK Gate project ' Sentinel sensor system: Towards a real-time, low cost in-field detection platform for air-borne viral and fungal pathogens'
Start Year	2019

Description	Collaboration with Prof Paul Dyer; natural product identification
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise in dereplication of complex mixtures of compounds from biological extractions using HPLC and LC-MS using the standard principles of bioassay guided fractionation. Once full dereplication has been achieved, our expertise in structure elucidation (e.g. HRMS and NMR) will be applied.
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in handling the specific fungal pathogen under appropriate conditions, extraction procedure to obtain biologically active extracts, bioassay to allow for bioassay guided fractionation.
Impact	Work is ongoing; possible application in crop protection.
Start Year	2018

Description	Consultancy subcontract to csfbSMART project
Organisation	National Institute of Agronomy and Botany (NIAB)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Contribution of know-how and in-depth knowledge of literature on cabbage stem flea beetle; intellectual input on design of protocols for farmers to determine pest abundance and damage levels caused by this pest
Collaborator Contribution	NIAB - co-ordination of network of farmers growing oilseed rape
Impact	Network of farmers growing oilseed rape Press release: https://www.niab.com/news-views/news/news-arable-industry-joins-together-fight-cabbage-stem-flea-beetle eb page : https://www.niab.com/csfbsmart
Start Year	2021

Description	Cosmonio, Image identification app development
Organisation	Cosmonio
Country	Netherlands
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	- Identifying 20 relevant crop pests of maize - Collecting and validating images of those pests to train the algorithm - Identifying test users and training them in the use of the app - Providing user feedback and advising on software updates
Collaborator Contribution	- Updating existing image identification algorithm to include African crop species - Integration of algorithm into a new app specifically for maize in Africa, and releasing this on google play store - Software updates and development of new features as required/ specified by project team
Impact	Library of >2,000 validated images used to train the algorithm Beta version of the app which can be downloaded from Google Play Store and used to identify crop pests of maize. Initial testing with a group of 20 - 30 users, and subsequent list of development improvements
Start Year	2018

Description	Cowpea pod-borer collaboration with KNUST, Ghana
Organisation	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Country	Ghana
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expertise on insect semiochemistry
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise on insect behaviour
Impact	Publications expected
Start Year	2015

Description	Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services (CropNuts), David Jones (Senior Agronomist)
Organisation	CropNuts
Country	Kenya
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We provide trap catch data to CropNuts, as well as two of their clients. We have trained farm staff in fall armyworm ID and use of the app.
Collaborator Contribution	CropNuts host two of our digital pheromone traps, one in Nakuru and the other in Nanyuki. They have also offered to give us data from their field trials and delta traps for FAW, and advised on where to purchase pheromone lures locally
Impact	Data from digital pheromone traps. Improvements to monitoring network.
Start Year	2019

Description	Developing genetic tools for the future management of Bemisia tabaci in the Punjab region of India
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	RI-UoN Future Food Beacon Fellowship - supervision of visiting research fellow from India
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise
Impact	doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2022.146929
Start Year	2020

Description	Development of VOC enose sensor
Organisation	RoboScientific
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Assessing the enose system in the detection of plant stress volatile organic compounds and how this technology can be implemented in field
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise on VOC sensors and application
Impact	none to date
Start Year	2018

Description	Development of a Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometer for real-time monitoring of crops / livestock
Organisation	Anatune
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	In discussions with Anatune on how this technology can be implemented in the Agri-sector
Collaborator Contribution	Instrumentation expertise
Impact	none to date
Start Year	2017

Description	EU-IBCARP: Chemical ecology of drought-tolerant plants used in the push-pull system
Organisation	International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
Country	Kenya
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-Investigator
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator
Impact	Work in Progress
Start Year	2015

Description	Embrapa - Cenargen
Organisation	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Department	Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
Country	Brazil
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Expertise in identification of maize - FAW semiochemistry
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in FAW chemical ecology
Impact	No outcomes have yet been achieved.
Start Year	2018

Description	Forest Research BBSRC Plant bacterial Diseases
Organisation	Bangor University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Joint BBSRC Plant Bacterial Diseases proposal submitted on tree health.
Collaborator Contribution	Co-Is
Impact	Funder`s decision is not known yet.
Start Year	2020

Description	Forest Research BBSRC Plant bacterial Diseases
Organisation	Forest Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Joint BBSRC Plant Bacterial Diseases proposal submitted on tree health.
Collaborator Contribution	Co-Is
Impact	Funder`s decision is not known yet.
Start Year	2020

Description	Forest Research tree health
Organisation	Forest Research
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Joint proposal submitted to Defra on tree health.
Collaborator Contribution	Co-Is
Impact	Awaiting funder`s decision.
Start Year	2020

Description	GCRF Foundation Award: Targeting Virus Transmission in a Vital Crop for African Food Security
Organisation	International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Country	Kenya
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Co-Investigator; research scientists (x 2)
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	GCRF Foundation Award: Targeting Virus Transmission in a Vital Crop for African Food Security
Organisation	Keele University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-Investigator; research scientists (x 2)
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	GCRF Foundation Award: Targeting Virus Transmission in a Vital Crop for African Food Security
Organisation	University of Cambridge
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-Investigator; research scientists (x 2)
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	High value semiochemicals through Industrial Biotechnology
Organisation	Circa Sustainable Chemicals Ltd
Country	Australia
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Principal Investigator
Collaborator Contribution	Co-investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2018

Description	IBM Smart Crop protection platform
Organisation	IBM
Department	IBM UK Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Rothamsted Research, and particularly the Smart Crop Protection programme, has held a number of ongoing discussions with IBM Research (Hartree Centre, UK) to identify joint interests, capabilities and synergies in relation to data-driven, AI and machine learning approaches to monitoring and surveillance, prediction and decision-support for crops pests. Rothamsted has contributed data sets from our entomological radar network to IBM for data analysis and visualisation, using their IBM Pairs geospatial data platform. Rothamsted and IBM have held a number of joint meetings to discuss ideas for a Smart Crop Protection data platform and have co-organised events and workshops that have been attended by Rothamsted, IBM, Hartree Centre and a number of agri-tech industry partners.
Collaborator Contribution	See details above for joint organisation of meetings and events. IBM Research have used their IBM Pairs platform to analyse Rothamsted insect migration data to demonstrate a proof-of-concept for data-driven smart crop protection prediction, visualisation and decision-support.
Impact	This collaboration led to award of an ISCF Transforming Food Production grant from Innovate UK (see further details) in further funding section.
Start Year	2017

Description	ICIPE, Project Partners
Organisation	International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
Country	Kenya
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Project management Entomological radar technology and data collection/ analysis Installation and dissemination of technologies (joint)
Collaborator Contribution	In-country expertise Installation and dissemination of technologies (joint) Hosting technology (including the radar) and overseeing ongoing logistics on the ground in Kenya
Impact	- Installation and data collection from 20 digital pheromone traps across the key maize growing regions of Kenya - Installation and data collection from entomological radar in Mbita point - Development and testing of image identification app with a preliminary group of 20 - 30 test users
Start Year	2018

Description	Industry - Syngenta
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Collaborative research programme on gene editing in lepidopteran pests
Collaborator Contribution	Materials and expertise
Impact	None to date
Start Year	2018

Description	Industry - Syngenta
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Collaborative research programme on gene editing in lepidopteran pests
Collaborator Contribution	Materials, expertise
Impact	None as yet
Start Year	2019

Description	International Weed Genomics Consortium
Organisation	Colorado State University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Dana will be an active member of the IWGC Executive Committee, acting as the liaison for the European IWGC members, develop and deliver External/Internal Training that delivers impact, and engage in and support IWGC activities.
Collaborator Contribution	The IWGC represents the community of scientists from academia and industry with interests in the genomics of weedy plant species. Its main aims are threefold: 1) to obtain reference genomes for the most important weed species worldwide; 2) to provide user-friendly genome analytical tools and training through web-based databases and resources; and 3) to facilitate discussion and global collaborations within this emerging field. DM will engage in these activities, focusing on the second and third aims.
Impact	The initial founding University and Research Institution members include Colorado State University, Rothamsted Research, Auburn University, Clemson University, Kansas State University, Washington State University, University of Illinois, Michigan State University, University of California - Davis, Oregon State University, University of Adelaide, University of Western Australia, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Zhejiang University, Kyoto University, Seoul National University, and Agricultural Research Organization (Israel). The IWGC is organising meetings to review progress and strategies, and to conduct training and networking events. Meeting locations will be determined by the Strategy Board - one is planned for September 2021 in Kansas City. The meeting host shall receive funding from the IWGC to assist with expenses for hosting the meeting, as determined by the Strategy Board. The Strategy Board may approve funds for travel assistance for IWGC academic members, in particular early-career researchers. DM has applied for and been awarded a 1.5-Hour Workshop at Plant Biology 21 organised by ASPB. She is organising this workshop for July 2021.
Start Year	2020

Description	Irradiation mutagenesis at IAEA
Organisation	International Atomic Energy Agency
Country	Austria
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	We have designed, conducted, executed, and analysed an experiment to determine whether it is possible to induce dominant gain-of-function mutations for herbicide resistance using irradiation mutagenesis. We sent 10,000 seeds to the IAEA in Vienna, received them back once they were mutagenised and screened these for resistance to 1.5x field rate of Fenoxaprop, and are growing on the survivors for characterisation.
Collaborator Contribution	Our partners received the seed, performed preliminary radiosensitivity tests to determine the best treatment rates, then dosed the seeds at two rates, and returned the seed to Rothamsted for characterisation.
Impact	From this screen, we aim to identify genes that when mutated are sufficient to confer herbicide resistance and characterise those mutations. At present, we have putative mutant plants that are awaiting molecular characterisation.
Start Year	2018

Description	Irradiation mutagenesis at RIKEN
Organisation	RIKEN
Department	Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
Country	Japan
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	We have designed the experiment, provided the materials and will carry out the characterisation and analysis of the resulting putative mutants.
Collaborator Contribution	Our partners will perform irradiation mutagenesis on the provided seed and then return them for characterisation and analysis.
Impact	We have a mutually signed Research Collaboration Agreement in place covering this collaboration and a Phytosanitary Certificate covering the export for these material. The material is currently in transit to Japan.
Start Year	2018

Description	KU Leuven
Organisation	University of Leuven
Country	Belgium
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Analysis by GC/GC-MS of volatile collections from pepper plants inoculated with endophytic fungi vs uninoculated plants infested or uninfested by aphids.
Collaborator Contribution	Plant volatile collections, plant inoculation, aphid life history parameters, aphid behavioural assays.
Impact	- differences in volatile composition between fungus-inoculated vs uninoculated and aphid-infested vs uninfested pepper plants - aphid olfactory preference towards pepper plants inoculated with a specific endophyte species - reduced aphid fitness om pepper plants inoculated with a specific endophyte species
Start Year	2020

Description	Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), Zachary Kinyua, Head of Crop Health Reserach
Organisation	Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
Country	Kenya
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Via Dr. Kinyua we have engaged directly with the senior KALRO staff in Embu, Kitale and Machakos. We have given their research staff digital access to the TrapView monitoring network. KALRO were also interested in gaining access to the network so they could assess if it would be useful for updating government officials on the prevalence of fall armyworm nationally. We have also trained extension staff and KALRO affiliated farmer groups in Embu in the use of the fall armyworm ID app. KALRO have requested we do the same with their networks in Kitale.
Collaborator Contribution	Staff from all these regions are either hosting traps for the SAS project or have helped us idenitify local farmers who host the digital traps. Both KALRO staff and their affiliated farmer networks are directly involved in our WhatsApp groups for trap and pest surveillance. We are delighted that Dr Kalama has agreed to make photos of FAW and other moths available to improve our FAW auto-identification app accuracy. KALRO have also linked us to local groups of farmers and extension workers in Embu. Embu and Kitale staff have also given us pre-publication information on the efficacy of different pheromones locally, and provided informal comparisons between the digital pheromone traps and more traditional bucket/ delta traps.
Impact	Trap data from three sites in Embu, four in Kitale and one in Machakos.
Start Year	2019

Description	Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)
Organisation	Kenya Forestry Research Institute
Country	Kenya
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We provide data on FAW to KEFRI for their monitoring pest purposes
Collaborator Contribution	Staff at KEFRI, Maseno, agreed to host a trap at their offices and collaborate.
Impact	Trap data
Start Year	2019

Description	Kew
Organisation	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Joint NERC proposal submitted on the effect of N availability on plant-insect interactions.
Collaborator Contribution	Co-Is
Impact	Awaiting decision by funder.
Start Year	2020

Description	Mechanistic understanding of black-grass weediness using genomics
Organisation	Bayer
Country	Germany
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	A 3-party collaborative was formed between Clemson University, Rothamsted Research, and Bayer Crop Sciences (12/20/18 - 12/19/20) to complete the following major objectives: 1) A reference-grade genome assembly for blackgrass; 2) Genome-wide association analysis to explore the genomic basis of NTSR in blackgrass; and 3) Transcriptomics for metabolic herbicide resistance in blackgrass; and 4) Epigenomic characterization of NTSR and non-adapted populations. Project milestones were achieved for 1-3 and are in the final stages of joint publication. This project aims to complement the knowledge already gained about the black-grass genome by 1) providing evidence for or against extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), 2) following up on hypotheses generated from the network analysis of the paired QTL-sequencing and transcriptomics with functional validation of specific targets and 3) carrying out additional sequencing to characterize the epigenome.
Collaborator Contribution	This is a collaborative research project where all partners are working together to meet the objectives
Impact	Cai, L., Comont, D., MacGregor, D.R., Lowe, C., Beffa, R., Saski, C.A., and Neve, P. (2021). The blackgrass genome reveals patterns of divergent evolution of non-target site resistance to herbicides. bioRxiv, 2021.2012.2014.472569.
Start Year	2018

Description	Mechanistic understanding of black-grass weediness using genomics
Organisation	Clemson University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	A 3-party collaborative was formed between Clemson University, Rothamsted Research, and Bayer Crop Sciences (12/20/18 - 12/19/20) to complete the following major objectives: 1) A reference-grade genome assembly for blackgrass; 2) Genome-wide association analysis to explore the genomic basis of NTSR in blackgrass; and 3) Transcriptomics for metabolic herbicide resistance in blackgrass; and 4) Epigenomic characterization of NTSR and non-adapted populations. Project milestones were achieved for 1-3 and are in the final stages of joint publication. This project aims to complement the knowledge already gained about the black-grass genome by 1) providing evidence for or against extrachromosomal circular DNA (eccDNA), 2) following up on hypotheses generated from the network analysis of the paired QTL-sequencing and transcriptomics with functional validation of specific targets and 3) carrying out additional sequencing to characterize the epigenome.
Collaborator Contribution	This is a collaborative research project where all partners are working together to meet the objectives
Impact	Cai, L., Comont, D., MacGregor, D.R., Lowe, C., Beffa, R., Saski, C.A., and Neve, P. (2021). The blackgrass genome reveals patterns of divergent evolution of non-target site resistance to herbicides. bioRxiv, 2021.2012.2014.472569.
Start Year	2018

Description	Modelling actve flight behaviours of small insects
Organisation	Stanford University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Andy Reynolds is contributing to model development.
Collaborator Contribution	The collaborators are providing data for the model development and validation.
Impact	There have been two papers resulting from this collaboration:Reynolds A.M., Sinhuber M., Ouellette N.T. 2017. Are midge swarms bound together by an effective velocity-dependent gravity? European Physical Journal E 40:46 and Reynolds, A.M. 2017 Langevin dynamics encapsulate the microscopic and emergent macroscopic properties of midge swarms. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 15: 20170806. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary including Biology, Physics and Mathematics.
Start Year	2016

Description	Modellling spore dispersal
Organisation	University of Hertfordshire
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Andy Reynolds is supervising a Research Fellow and contributing to model development.
Collaborator Contribution	Staff time through a Research Fellow to contribute to model development.
Impact	There are no outputs or outcomes yet but this collaboration is an important step to producing models that can predict spore dispersal at the postcode level.
Start Year	2017

Description	Monitoring Airborne Pathogens
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Department	Syngenta Ltd (Bracknell)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Research and assessment of methods to process collected air samples for DNA-based detection of plant pathogens. Detection of genetic traits of plant pathogens such as fungicide resistance. A phenotyping method to assess virulence and fungicide sensitivity of obligate plant pathogens such as wheat powdery mildew and yellow rust.
Collaborator Contribution	Provision of sampling sites
Impact	None yet
Start Year	2018

Description	NERC standard grant: DOMINO: Degradation of odour signals by air pollution: chemical Mechanisms, plume dynamics and INsect-Orientation behaviour
Organisation	University of Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-Investigator
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	New collaboration between Rothamsted and Embrapa Instrumentation
Organisation	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Department	Embrapa Instrumentation
Country	Brazil
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	VOC analysis, root exudate analysis, semiochemical knowledge.
Collaborator Contribution	Bio-fertilizer design
Impact	GCRF collaboration grant in submission.
Start Year	2019

Description	New collaboration with Prof Ian Fisk's group at Nottingham University, Food Science Dept
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Volatile collections, root exudate chemistry, semiochemical elucidation, mass spectrometry
Collaborator Contribution	Aroma profiling, real-time mass spectrometry instrumentation, E-nose development
Impact	Joint PhD applied for 2019 and 2020
Start Year	2019

Description	New collaboration with Prof Kenneth Wilson, Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre
Organisation	Lancaster University
Department	Lancaster Environment Centre
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Volatile collections, root exudate analysis, identification of semiochemical compounds, plant-insect chemical ecology
Collaborator Contribution	Expert on African insect crop pests and pest management. World expert on African armyworm.
Impact	We have a joint PhD student, started October 2019 'Complementary strategies for the sustainable management of an invasive pest to Africa'
Start Year	2019

Description	Newton-India
Organisation	University of York
Department	York Environmental Sustainability Institute
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Collaboration with the University of York, University of Hertfordshire, NIAB and institutions in India. We will sequence some
Collaborator Contribution	Bioinformatics, Plant pathology studies, field trials of oilseed brassicas (B. juncea)
Impact	Contacts with Indian scientists who will visit Rothamsted Research in the next two years.
Start Year	2018

Description	Novel Crop Protection Tools using Synthetic Biology
Organisation	Cardiff University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-investigator
Collaborator Contribution	Principal Investigator
Impact	1 Peer-review manuscript; Novel olfactory ligands via terpene synthases
Start Year	2011

Description	One Acre Fund, Step Aston (Head of Research and Development)
Organisation	One Acre Fund
Country	Kenya
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	We have given One Acre Fund access to the TrapView digital network and image identification app so they can assess these technologies for use in their own extension services
Collaborator Contribution	One Acre Fund identified a farmer in Kitale who hosts one of our digital pheromone traps. The One Acre Fund also provide staff time to support this farmer in the operation of the digital pheromone trap.
Impact	Trap data. Feedback on the operation, maintenance and feasibility of the digital pheromone traps.
Start Year	2019

Description	PHI-Canto_curation of fungicide literature_Nichola Hawkins_NIAB
Organisation	National Institute Of Agricultural Botany
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	The PHI-Canto community curation tool for literature curation for multiple pathogenic species. Detailed literature searches to identify the in scope publications Development of controlled vocabularies, ontology terms and evidence codes to curate the literature on fungicide targets and resistance mechanisms
Collaborator Contribution	In depth knowledge of the relevant fungicide resistance literature for key species , especially for those infecting wheat and barley. In depth knowledge of anew system to identify orthologous function mutations in protein structure across different species even when the amino acid sequence changes are not identical .
Impact	This joint project has been a success and a joint manuscript is in preparation
Start Year	2022

Description	PhD - A gene editing approach to assessing the impact of insecticide resistance on fitness using Drosophila as a model
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Department	University of Nottingham Museum
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Main supervisor, co-supervisors, laboratory facilities, expertise
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisor, expertise
Impact	None to date
Start Year	2018

Description	PhD - Investigating insecticide resistance in UK populations of oilseed rape pests
Organisation	Royal Agricultural University (RAU)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Main project supervisor and co-supervisors. Access to laboratory facilities and samples
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors, samples, expertise
Impact	doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105316
Start Year	2018

Description	PhD - Investigating insecticide resistance in UK populations of oilseed rape pests
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Main project supervisor and co-supervisors. Access to laboratory facilities and samples
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors, samples, expertise
Impact	doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2020.105316
Start Year	2018

Description	PhD - Risk assessment of sub-lethal insecticide exposure: new biomarkers and metrics
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Department	School of Biology Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co- supervisor. Expertise in bee biology and insecticides
Collaborator Contribution	main project supervisors
Impact	doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2021.765179
Start Year	2020

Description	PhD: A low-input management system for the pest pod-borer, Maruca vitrata, on cowpea, Vigna unguiculata
Organisation	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Country	Ghana
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Characterisation of Chemical Signalling from Beneficial Trichoderma spp.
Organisation	University of Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisor and collaborator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Characterisation of Chemical Signalling from Beneficial Trichoderma spp.
Organisation	University of Warwick
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisor and collaborator
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Elucidation of Insect Olfaction in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor, co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2016

Description	PhD: Fruit Host Selection by the Olfactory System in the Agricultural Pest Drosophilia suzukii
Organisation	Cardiff University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor, co-supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Fungal Hosts for Production of Unusual and Unnatural Terpene Cyclase Feedstocks
Organisation	Cardiff University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Getting to the roots of black-grass control: Crop-weed allelopathic interactions in Alopecurus myosuroides
Organisation	Hutchinson H L Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors and for Hutchinsons, provision of student training and placement opportunities
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Getting to the roots of black-grass control: Crop-weed allelopathic interactions in Alopecurus myosuroides
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Department	School of Biosciences
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors and for Hutchinsons, provision of student training and placement opportunities
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Investigating the current status and predicting further evolution of azole fungicide resistance in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
Organisation	Government of Brazil
Department	Coordination of Higher Education Personnel Training (CAPES)
Country	Brazil
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	My research team and myself contributed to the application of the proposal by the student and are responsible for training and supervision
Collaborator Contribution	Student is registered at the University of Reading and has a supervisor
Impact	PhD thesis completed
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Investigating the current status and predicting further evolution of azole fungicide resistance in the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici
Organisation	University of Reading
Department	School of Agriculture, Policy and Development Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	My research team and myself contributed to the application of the proposal by the student and are responsible for training and supervision
Collaborator Contribution	Student is registered at the University of Reading and has a supervisor
Impact	PhD thesis completed
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Mechanisms and Function of Electroreception in Bees
Organisation	University of Bristol
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Quantifying the impacts of the neonicotinoid restriction on oilseed rape pest control, pollination and productivity
Organisation	University of Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervision
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervision
Impact	No outputs yet
Start Year	2015

Description	PhD: Rewinding the tape: experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	PhD co-supervisors
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Rewinding the tape: experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Organisation	University of Exeter
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Principal PhD supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	PhD co-supervisors
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: The ecology of cabbage stem flea beetle in winter oilseed rape
Organisation	Fera Science Limited
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Primary Supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors
Impact	PhD funding an outcome of the collaboration under the Rothamsted-Reading Alliance scheme
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: The ecology of cabbage stem flea beetle in winter oilseed rape
Organisation	University of Reading
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Primary Supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Co-supervisors
Impact	PhD funding an outcome of the collaboration under the Rothamsted-Reading Alliance scheme
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Using molecular genetics to design sentinel plants for detecting biotic stress
Organisation	Syngenta International AG
Department	Syngenta Crop Protection
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor, co-supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	PhD: Using molecular genetics to design sentinel plants for detecting biotic stress
Organisation	University of Wales
Department	Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Co-supervisor
Collaborator Contribution	Principal supervisor, co-supervisor
Impact	Work in progress
Start Year	2017

Description	Proof-of-concept study: Chaff tram-lining for weed seed control in the UK
Organisation	Frontier Agriculture Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Attended meetings and provided expert advice on weed biology and management
Collaborator Contribution	Frontier have brought this technology, developed in Australia by Primary Sales Australia into the UK for field testing on-farm.
Impact	The chaff tram-lining system has been imported to the UK, fitted to combine harvesters and tested across a small number of fields and farms. Frontier and Primary Sales are seeking to upscale trials in the UK.
Start Year	2017

Description	Proof-of-concept study: Chaff tram-lining for weed seed control in the UK
Organisation	Primary Sales Australia
Country	Australia
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Attended meetings and provided expert advice on weed biology and management
Collaborator Contribution	Frontier have brought this technology, developed in Australia by Primary Sales Australia into the UK for field testing on-farm.
Impact	The chaff tram-lining system has been imported to the UK, fitted to combine harvesters and tested across a small number of fields and farms. Frontier and Primary Sales are seeking to upscale trials in the UK.
Start Year	2017

Description	Rapid detection of Fusarium airborne inoculum and fungicide resistance to improve crop production and mycotoxin management
Organisation	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Department	Institute of Plant Protection
Country	China
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	UK-China Centre for the Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture (CSIA) Seed-Funding Award Third Call 2017
Collaborator Contribution	Assessment of novel air sampling device to capture plant pathogen spores. Development of methods to extract DNA, remove inhibitory chemicals and identify pathogens using DNA-based diagnostic assays
Impact	none yet
Start Year	2018

Description	SIFT-MS (Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry) as a novel surveillance tool for real-time monitoring of cryptic pests affecting livestock production
Organisation	Anatune
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Project management and our expertise is Mass Spectrometry, sample collection and supplying authentic standards.
Collaborator Contribution	Embrapa - collecting air samples from poultry houses. Anatune - analysis of standards and air samples using the SIFT-MS Voice200 Ultra system Analysis of collected samples carried out my Anatune. The SIFT-MS system detected VOC components of interest. Further funding discussion are in progress to expand on the work carried out.
Impact	none to date
Start Year	2017

Description	SIFT-MS (Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry) as a novel surveillance tool for real-time monitoring of cryptic pests affecting livestock production
Organisation	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Country	Brazil
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Project management and our expertise is Mass Spectrometry, sample collection and supplying authentic standards.
Collaborator Contribution	Embrapa - collecting air samples from poultry houses. Anatune - analysis of standards and air samples using the SIFT-MS Voice200 Ultra system Analysis of collected samples carried out my Anatune. The SIFT-MS system detected VOC components of interest. Further funding discussion are in progress to expand on the work carried out.
Impact	none to date
Start Year	2017

Description	Sequencing and annotation of Alopecurus weeds
Organisation	Earlham Institute
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Provided material and know-how for Alopecurus weeds to generate a fully-annotated genome sequence.
Collaborator Contribution	Provided knowledge and protocols for sequencing and annotation of large complex genomes
Impact	Samples for sequencing, vouchering, and annotation of the Alopecurus species
Start Year	2021

Description	Smart detection of airborne diseases in protected crops Waitros CTP PhD studentship
Organisation	University of Warwick
Department	Warwick Crop Centre
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Supervision and provision of lab and plant growth facilities for PhD student, jointly with the Warwick Crop Centre and APS produce Ltd.
Collaborator Contribution	Provision of access to commercial glasshouses (APS Produce Ltd), provision of seeds and diseased plant material and supervision; Provision of research glasshouse (Warwick crop centre) and isolates of fungal pathogens and supervision.
Impact	conference presentations
Start Year	2018

Description	Spraysaver InnovateUK project
Organisation	Burkard Manufacturing Co. Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	We will co-develop new assays for detection of selected plant pathogens and apply them to an automated DNA-based detectyion system linked to an air sampling device, which will report results wirelessly. Partners are: Burkard, Worcestershire Colleges Group, HL Hutchinsons Ltd, Velcourt Ltd, Spearhead International, RSK ADAS Ltd.
Collaborator Contribution	Provision of sites, stabilisation of reagents, engineering, electronics ,web-portal.
Impact	Conference presentations
Start Year	2019

Description	University of Helsinki, Taita Research Station
Organisation	University of Helsinki
Country	Finland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Training in the running and operation of a digital pheromone trap, weekly updates on fall armyworm numbers locally.
Collaborator Contribution	Host two digital pheromone traps, with small amounts of staff time devoted to the maintenance of those two traps.
Impact	Trap data
Start Year	2019

Description	epidemiology of pathogens of rice
Organisation	International Rice Research Institute
Country	Philippines
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	In this collaboration the Rothamsted team develops models and methods that then are applied to the data gathered by the collaborators. Further the Rothamsted team helps guide the monitoring efforts of the collaborators.
Collaborator Contribution	The collaborators do field work, monitoring and experiments in rice crops. They have (I) monitored the emergence and spread of a new virulent bacterial blight strain, (ii) done epidemic detailed assessments in rice fields of the development of bacterial blight epidemics, (iii) tested out new resistant lines.
Impact	So far 3 publications.
Start Year	2016

Description	epidemiology of pathogens of rice
Organisation	Kasetsart University
Country	Thailand
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	In this collaboration the Rothamsted team develops models and methods that then are applied to the data gathered by the collaborators. Further the Rothamsted team helps guide the monitoring efforts of the collaborators.
Collaborator Contribution	The collaborators do field work, monitoring and experiments in rice crops. They have (I) monitored the emergence and spread of a new virulent bacterial blight strain, (ii) done epidemic detailed assessments in rice fields of the development of bacterial blight epidemics, (iii) tested out new resistant lines.
Impact	So far 3 publications.
Start Year	2016

Description	iMapPESTS project
Organisation	South Australian Research and Development Institute
Country	Australia
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Co-developments and assessment of novel sampling equipment. Joint publications
Collaborator Contribution	Co-developments and assessment of novel sampling equipment. Joint publications
Impact	Kimber RBE, Zeller L, Wili S, West JS. 2018. Monitoring airborne fungi using smart and mobile spore traps. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Aerobiology 3-7 September 2018, Parma, Italy. p.15. West JS, Kimber RBE, Wili S. 2018. DNA-based air samplers for mobile and static detection of plant pathogens. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Aerobiology 3-7 September 2018, Parma, Italy. p.31. R. Kimber (1), L. Zeller (2), S. Wili (3), J. WEST. 2018. Advantages of mobile and smart spore traps in disease surveillance. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Plant Pathology 29 July - 3 August 2018, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. (Video:https://www.apsnet.org/publications/Webinars/Pages/2018videos.aspx?LID=Paper3980.mp4).
Start Year	2018

Title	COMPOUNDS WITH SEMIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND BIOSENSORS
Description	Provided are a compound of Formula I or Formula IA, a composition comprising a compound of Formula I or Formula IA, uses of the compounds and compositions to modulate insect behaviour and methods for modulating insect behaviour. Also provided are biosensors for detecting an analyte in a sample, uses of the biosensor, and methods for detecting an analyte in a sample.
IP Reference	WO2022023572
Protection	Patent / Patent application
Year Protection Granted	2022
Licensed	No
Impact	None.

Company Name	PheroSyn
Description	PheroSyn develops and synthesises species-specific insect pheromones to target and attract agricultural pests.
Year Established	2020
Impact	None to date.
Website	https://www.pherosyn.com/

Description	"Experience Rothamsted" Programme 2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Helped to design the engagement activities for "Experience Rothamsted" week online March 2021, for 16 A-level students. Students took part in a number of online sessions and gaining an insight into what goes on in our labs, fields and glass houses. Task I helped design and lead was to choose one of our recent news articles and to think about what the next step for that research could be? It could be the next big question, it could be scaling it up or moving it out of the lab and into the field or even a brand new innovation. They were not constrained by budget, time or space - aims were not to have the students know the details of the research or its limitations, but to have them think scientifically, to question and to be curious.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	"Molecular Biology 101" for the IWGC training platform as part of the inaugural conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Molecular Biology 101: In this 1.25-hour session, you will gain an understanding of the processes that plants use create, regulate, and modify the macromolecules that sustain life. Our focus will be on deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), ribonucleic acid (RNA), and proteins - what they are, what they do, and how they can be changed and measured. You will not only learn how the composition and structure of these macromolecules defines their functionalities, but how they interact with one another and the consequences of those interactions. This workshop will define but go beyond the "Central Dogma", as we will examine the ways these macromolecules are modified and how those modifications can alter plant growth and behaviour. We will explain the different techniques that can be used to find changes in DNA, RNA, or proteins across different scales, and how to functionally validate the consequences of these changes. Examples from the weed science literature will demonstrate how these macromolecules can be changed naturally (through selection and adaptation) and intentionally (through modifications performed in the laboratory). Our examples will then illustrate how these modifications alter the plant's ability to survive the challenges of the agri-ecosystem. At the end of the session you will have a better understanding of what DNA, RNA and proteins are, the different roles they play within a cell, how to change their form and how that leads to changes in function, and how those modifications change the responsiveness and/or behaviour plants; all of which will better enable you to consider how DNA, RNA and proteins allow weeds to be weedy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://ewrs.org/en/info/Upcoming-events/International-Weed-Genomics-Conference

Description	#UKPlantSciPresents Webinars
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	#UKPlantSciPresents Webinar series is supported by GARNet, the Monogram Small Grains Network, Bristol Centre for Agricultural Innovation, NovogeneUK and Arabidopsis Events UK. It is a chance for UK plant scientists to discuss their work with an international audience in lieu of the normal seminar series. I applied and was invited to speak.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://youtu.be/RpRu7lW5_uI

Description	'RNAi applications; from lab to field' and 2nd iPLANTA School
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	This is a eCOST WG2 meeting focused on the identification of the industrial perspective of RNAi products. There was a one day working group meeting held on the 26th of September 2018, then a two day 'Training School' regarding the technical aspects and applicability of RNAi products held on the 27-28th September 2018. Experts from industrial companies and research institutions were invited to present their research towards RNAi pipeline products and RNAi synthesis. I presented my research and chaired a session. I was also invited to be interviewed for a YouTube video that was produced about the eCOST action and RNAi and other topics covered at the iPLANTA event. These can be found at https://youtu.be/L_M7jdbbTMk and https://youtu.be/5xLbClGN9Rg respectively. I also received a iPLANTA grants for COST reimbursement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://iplanta.univpm.it/node/61

Description	'SDHI sensitivity status of UK Zymoseptoria tritici and Pyrenophora teres field populations' presentation at 19th International Reinhardsbrunn Symposium Modern Fungicides and Antifungal Compounds, Friedrichroda, Germany (8 April 2019)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented latest understanding of fungicide resistance development in key cereal diseases and impact on disease management
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	11th International Congress of Aerobiology, 3-7 Sept 2018, Parma, Italy
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West made an invited keynote presentation at this international conference and also chaired another session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.eas-aerobiology.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ICA2018.pdf

Description	19th International Reinhardsbrunn Symposium Modern Fungicides and Antifungal Compounds Friedrichroda, Germany 7th - 11th April 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Made an invited keynote presentation entitled: Smart monitoring of airborne plant pathogens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://plant-protection.net/de/reinhardsbrunn

Description	21/Apr/2021 Presented and was a panellist at the Waitrose PhD student career conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	21/Apr/2021 Gave a presentation on working with industry as an academic and was a panellist at the Waitrose PhD student career conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	2nd Annual Congress on Plant Science and Biosecurity, 11-13 July 2019, London
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I chaired a session and also in a separate session made an invited keynote presentation entitled: DNA-based detection of airborne plant pathogens for enhanced disease forecasting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://machprinciple.com/conference/12883/ACPB2019--2nd-Annual-Congress-on-Plant-Science--Biosecuri...

Description	3rd Annual Aerosol Science CDT Sandpit event. Tuesday 15th September
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Attended a workshop about the Aerosol Science CDT, which had discussion sessions online using the Remo platform. This led to being invited to join a publication and two submitted applications to act as a host for a PhD student off-site project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/

Description	4th International Weed Science Seminar & Primer Taller Latinoamericano de Malezas - Invited Speaker
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The Weed Science Seminar is a biannual event promoted by the Crop Protection Graduate Program and organized by the Weed Science Research Group from the Federal University of Pelotas in partnership with several institutions in Southern Brazil (List can be checked in the end of this page). This year the event is a promoted not only by the Crop Protection Graduate Program but is an effort of the graduate programs from UEM, UFRGS, UNESP and UFAM. This partnership is an effort to integrate the institution on research, extension and education activities. In the first two days of the event is the Seminar and in the last day we will have the "Primer Taller Latinoamericano de Malezas" which will be a workshop aiming at congregate researchers from key Latin American countries to discuss The Challenges and Opportunities for Weed Managements in their countries to find opportunities to solve local and regional weed problems. At the end of the workshop we will make a joint effort to build collaborative projects. The outcome of this was to form a partnership to follow up with a BBSRC - Brazil grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://wp.ufpel.edu.br/ppgfs/iv-international-weed-science-seminar/

Description	6 Dec 2022 Presentation on Sclerotinia biology and control
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	6 Dec 2022, Jon West gave a 30 minute presentation to agronomists from Procam on Sclerotinia biology and control
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	63rd Meeting of the Weed Science Society of America
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The decades of work devoted to advancing understanding of and building resources for model organisms means scientists studying them can move from hypotheses to conclusions quickly and easily. However, comparatively few of these "well-developed model organisms" cause real-world harm and/or actively hinder agriculture. It is unequivocal that weeds significantly reduce yields and increase agricultural costs, yet the mechanistic and molecular-level knowledge about weeds is insignificant compared to what we have for the crops in which they grow. Knowledge transfer between model to non-model is inadequate and insufficient because the natural and anthropogenic selection pressures that drive weed evolution are unique meaning weeds exhibit traits and genomes that are different from model, crop, or wild plant species. Therefore, to understand how 'weedy' traits have developed, are regulated, and confer selective advantage in the agroecosystem, we need to undertake molecular and physiological analysis of weeds. We are working to bring agricultural weeds into the molecular laboratory and generate the necessary resources and techniques that will allow us to directly do hypothesis-led science in these species to better understand the genetics and genomics of these harmful, impactful plants. Recently, we have made important breakthroughs by generating 'omics and experimental tools. For instance, we now have methods to transiently induce or reduce gene expression and working with collaborators (including the IWGC and ERGA) are generating fully-annotated genomes for Alopecurus species weeds. This presentation will discuss those breakthroughs and explain how the genetic and molecular-level understanding of agricultural weeds gained in the laboratory is essential to generate the modern and novel innovations that will control weeds outside of the laboratory.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://wssa.net/current-annual-meeting/

Description	? FuturumCareers.com: Saving plants from disease, for 11-19 year-olds (July 2019)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	An article was written for a new publication produced by the London based company called FuturumCareers that is specifically focussing on increasing the number of school pupils in the age group 11-19 to become interested in a STEAM subject and to go on and select an appropriate University Course. The PHI-base team at Rothamsted in collaboration with the ENSEMBL team at EMBL-EBI in Cambridge developed both a comprehensive magazine style article and a quiz to enhance the understanding of pathogen - plant host interactions and the increased use of big data to explore plant diseases.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://futurumcareers.com/saving-plants-from-disease

Description	A sustainable future for UK Crop Protection - A Rothamsted Perspective - webinar on IPM for cabbage stem flea beetle
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Webinar organised by Croprotect on Research work at Rothamsted contributing to development of IPM strategies for control of cabbage stem flea beetle. Presentation was followed by questions from the audience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/events/sustainable-future-uk-crop-protection-%E2%80%93-rothamsted-persp...

Description	AAB - Presidential Look Forward - Naturebased and engineered biology solutions to climate mitigation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	My abstract was invited for an oral presentation at this conference. Abstract below. Weeds undoubtably threaten our food security. To do this, they must survive the considerable natural and anthropogenic selection pressures imposed on them by the modern agroecosystem. Therefore weeds in modern agricultural fields demonstrate remarkable adaptability and resilience. Learning about weeds' capacity to survive gives knowledge that can be used to enhance the resilience of crops, increasing current productivity and future-proofing against climate change. We are investigating waterlogging tolerance in the sympatric species wheat and black-grass because 1) climate change will increase waterlogging frequency and severity in the UK, 2) wheat's inability to survive waterlogging causes serious losses for UK farmers, and 3) black-grass is UK winter cereals farmers' most problematic weed especially on heavy soil prone to waterlogging. To understand their tolerance/intolerance to waterlogging, we are quantifying the ability of black-grass populations and wheat cultivars to tolerate waterlogging during early growth and identifying physical, metabolic and/or genetic traits that underpin the differences observed. Data from this project adds to our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these species and identifies traits responsible for waterlogging tolerance that can become targets for either integrated weed management or crop development programmes both of which tip the balance toward secure crop yields.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.aab.org.uk/event/biennial-aab-presidential-look-forward-nature-based-and-engineered-biol...

Description	AAB precision Agriculture conference October 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West made an invited keynote presentation at the conference and this was associated with the following publication: West JS, Canning GGM, Perryman SA, Kaczmarek A, King KM (2017) Precision disease detection systems for agriculture and horticulture. Aspects of Applied Biology: Precision systems in agricultural and horticultural production v135, p1-8 (2017).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	AHDB Agronomists conference - December 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Paul Neve ran a weed management workshop (day one) and gave a research presentation (day two)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	AHDB Agronomy Week - Webinar on Research insights into approaches to reduce cabbage stem flea beetle larval pressure
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited webinar as part of 'Growing Oilseed rape' session during Agronomy week. Presentation aimed to communicate research findings from SCP and EcoStack projects on IPM of cabbage stem flea beetle with focus on larval control. Audience comprised agronomists, farmers, policy makers and Industry stakeholders. Followed by 20 minute discussion session and ''chat questions'' which was so successful we ran out of time and I answered several questions after the event via email. Session available on You-Tube
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=AHDB+agronomy+week+You-Tube&&view=detail&mid=6414D7F163A3B0A55E...

Description	AHDB Aphid Alerts Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A meeting to discuss current threats to horticultural and agricultural industry, particularly aphids and how the RIS is tackling these issues with its surveillance and monitoring.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	AHDB Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Richard Hull and David Comont chaired a workshop on testing for resistance and controlling grass weeds
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	AHDB/ADAS project review meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Review of BYDV monitoring data for 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	AICC conference (15/01/2020-16/01/20)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	AICC conference (15/01/2020-16/01/20) - Caitlin Willis - Invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://aicc.org.uk/news/archive.php?year=2020&month=01

Description	AMA Reddit event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	AMA Reddit event, 26th October 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	ASPP Science Protecting Plant Health Conference, Brisbane Sept 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West chaired a conference session and also made an invited presentation. West JS, Canning GGM, Kaczmarek A, King KM (2017) Comparison of rooftop and field-based air samplers for early detection and population monitoring of plant pathogens. Science Protecting Plant Health, 26-28 September 2017, Brisbane, Australia. Abstract Page 135. https://www.appsnet.org/publications/Brisbane_Presentations/West.pdf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.appsnet.org/publications/Brisbane_Presentations/West.pdf

Description	Agri-TechE highlight on Mellado-Sanchez et al 2020 paper
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Agri-TechE is bringing together farmers and growers with scientists, technologists and entrepreneurs to create a global innovation hub in agri-tech. I responded to a request for a write up on our recent paper published in Plant Physiology
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/gene-boost-in-battle-against-black-grass/

Description	AgriTech-E Data in Agriculture event at Rothamsted: I gave an invited presentation on 'Automated identification of flying insects' (13/10/22)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	I was asked to talk about my work on how data on insect flight patterns is being used to develop automatic monitoring tools for pests and their natural enemies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.agri-tech-e.co.uk/data-in-agriculture/

Description	Agroforestry meeting spring 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Tree health stakeholder meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Agroforestry meeting winter 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Tree health follow-up stakeholder meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Agrosavia Colombia 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Agrosavia, Colombia invited me to make two keynote presentations in Villavicencio, Colombia - one primarily for farmers and one for scientists to help with the management and control of diseases of rubber "Seminario Científico Internacional: ALERTA temprana para el manejo de plagas y enfermedades en Caucho" I also gave some training on air sampling techniques.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Alan Turing AI-UK 22-23/3 2022 - presented 5 min video presentation on AI detection of pollen beetles in oilseed rape
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I made a film which was played at the conference with my colleague Emily Bick (Univeersity of Copenhagen) as part of the Rothamsted activity to develop links with the Turing Institute.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	All-Party Parliamentary Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture meeting, Westminster. 28th November 2017.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This meeting provided an opportunity to hear from the three young delegates chosen to represent the UK at the 2017 Youth Ag-Summit held recently in Brussels.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.appg-agscience.org.uk/meetings.html

Description	American Phytopathological Society Workshop Presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West made a 15 minute presentation by Zoom (video link) as part of an online workshop on "Using spore trapping in research and disease forecasting" Broadcast Date: November 17, 2020 - see: https://www.apsnet.org/meetings/mtngwshops/phworkshops/Pages/default.aspx
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.apsnet.org/meetings/mtngwshops/phworkshops/Pages/default.aspx

Description	Article in Crop Production Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	David Comont had an article in CPM about the risk of glyphosate resistance in black-grass
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CPM-July-2019.pdf

Description	Article in Crop Production Magazine
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Richard Hull had an article about non-chemical control options for black-grass
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CPM-September-2019.pdf

Description	Article in New Scientist
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	David Comont had an article in New Scientist magazine about resistance in black-grass
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206610-superweeds-are-on-the-brink-of-becoming-resistant-to-al...

Description	Association of Applied Biology Conference Oct 2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West gave a 20-minute presentation and there is also an abstract in the conference proceedings. West JS, Canning GGM, King KM, Singh M, Myers T, Kennedy R (2021) Smart monitoring of airborne plant pathogens to enhance crop protection decisions. Crop production with reduced pesticide and fertiliser inputs without compromising yield and quality. Virtual meeting: October 13th-14th 2021. Association of Applied Biologists, Wellesbourne.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Association of Independent Crop Consultants (AICC) visit to Rothamsted facilities and field tour July 2023
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The AICC membership were walked through an amazing four independent replica, 1st vis 3rd wheat take-all field experiment which included 30 test wheat genotypes involving diploid T. monococcum wheats, Watkins landraces, modern and current elite commercial hexaploid wheats as well as rye and triticale plots. There was exceptionally high disease pressure in many of the 3rd wheat plots whereas the 1st wheat plots in the neighbouring blocks were disease free. The AICC visitors could see first-hand the devastating effects of take-all disease in many of the 3rd wheat plots on plant stature, canopy development as well as the invasion of weed species into the take-all patches. Within this trial the new source for take-all root resistance Watkins 777 and T. monococcum MDR031 displayed excellent crop development in the 3rd wheat position. The AICC visitors also learnt that even though rye is resistant to take-all in the roots in a 2nd or 3rd wheat situation, this species is still able to build up take-all inoculum in the root rhizosphere in a 1st wheat situation and is therefore a high-TAB genotype. Therefore after rye crops neither wheat nor barley should be grown where there is a risk of Take-all disease occurring.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Association of Independent Crop Consultants annual conference 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Paul was an invited speaker and gave a talk entitles "Managing glyphosate resistance: risks and responses in global cropping systems and lessons for the UK"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Attendance at European Weed Research Society herbicide resistance working group meeting (David Comont)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	The meeting theme was monitoring and surveillance for herbicide resistance in weeds. David Comont gave a talk on epidemiology of herbicide resistance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.ewrs.org/herbicide_resistance.asp

Description	Attended REAP Agri-Tech East Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Attended the annual REAP Agri-Tech East conference to discuss advances in agricultural technologies with farmers, policy makers and industrial partners.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Attended and participated in EPPO meeting on insect pests in oilseed rape
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Invited group to discuss state-of-the art in resistance and alternative control options for insects pests in oilseed rape to inform EPPO guidelines and policy; this will result in published summary of the meeting and offered paper in EPPO Bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	BBSRC Institutes 2nd Collaborative Workshop on Epigenetics - Invited Speaker
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The '2nd BBSRC Collaborative Workshop on Epigenetics' was held on February 6th / 7th 2020. This workshop aimed to bring the BBSRC Epigenetics community to further explore common research directions and possibly funding strategies. The current preliminary programme sessions include: - Quantitative modelling of epigenetic mechanisms - Germ line reprogramming - Memory states and inheritance - Environmental modulation - Ageing of the epigenome - Epigenetic control of cell fate and regeneration Technology focus breakout sessions: - Single cell multi-omics - In vivo imaging probes to read out epigenetic states
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bbsrc-ukri-epigenetics-workshop-2020-tickets-83626580353

Description	BBSRC Institutes Partnership Collaborative Workshop on Epigenetics
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	This two day workshop took place at the Barbarham Institute Conference Centre in Cambridge, on the 1-2 November 2018. This was organised by Peter Rugg-Gunn, Daniel Zilberman & Doug Vernimmen, but I was the nominated Rothamsted Representative. The aim of the meeting was to bring together to create new links between researchers working in the area of epigenetics from across the BBSRC Institutes. During the two days we had presentations focused on five cross-cutting themes within epigenetics research as well as breakout sessions to discuss emerging synergies and collaborations. I chaired one of the sessions on Emerging Technologies. I have written a report on my reflections of the meeting, which is available for anyone that wants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	BBSRC cross-institue microbiome workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The workshop had presentations of high impact science from soil, insect and human microbiome research areas. There were facilitated breakout sessions covering what we currently know and what we need to know in microbiome research. Plus discussions on cross institute microbiome ISPG, LOLAs and formation of consortia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	BBSRC-FAPESP workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Attended BBSRC-FAPESP Joint Pump-Priming Awards for AMR and Insect Pest Resistance in Agriculture Partnership Building Workshop, FAPESP headquarters, Sao Paulo, 4-6 October 2017. Gave presentation "Smart Crop Protection".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	BBSRC-UKRI Epigenetics Workshop 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was the representative for Rothamsted at the BBSRC workshop on Epigenetics (6 - 7 February 2020 at Babraham Institute CAMBRIDGE, CB22 3AT). This workshop, like last year's, aims to bring the BBSRC Epigenetics community to further explore common research directions and possibly funding strategies. The current programme sessions include: - Quantitative modelling of epigenetic mechanisms - Germ line reprogramming - Memory states and inheritance - Environmental modulation - Ageing of the epigenome - Epigenetic control of cell fate and regeneration Technology focus breakout sessions: - Single cell multi-omics - In vivo imaging probes to read out epigenetic states
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019,2020
URL	https://epigenetics-workshop.eventbrite.co.uk

Description	BCPC 56th Annual Weed Review - Invited Speaker
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The BCPC Weeds Working Group meets three times a year and delivers the annual BCPC Weeds Review to an invited audience which includes researchers, advisers, growers and industry representatives. The Review comprises presentations from invited speakers on topics of current interest. This year's theme was Emerging Science for Weed Control.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-weed-review-2019

Description	BCPC Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Invited talk on effect of ban on neonicotinoid pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	BCPC Diseases Review 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Jon West co-organized a on-day online conference on 15 October 2020 in which eight speakers presented work on the theme of Technologies to optimise crop health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-diseases-review-2020

Description	BCPC Weed Review
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-weeds-review-2018 BCPC Weeds Review 2018 - 55th Annual Review - Theme - Building on the basics One day workshop / conference held on 7/11/2018 where invited speakers were presenting to an invited audience. The audience members included agronomists, farmers, researchers, and industrial representatives. Discussions afterwards centred on the efficacy and applicability of the topics presented and ways that they can be improved or implemented.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/events/bcpc-weeds-review-2018

Description	BCPC Weeds Review: Alternatives for weed control
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Colleagues David Comont, Laura Crook and Claudia Lowe attended the BCPC weeds review event held at Rothamsted Research. All three were asked to present posters and each had a 5 minute slot to present some slides as an introduction to themselves and their research. This annual meeting is attended by academics, farmers, industry and other representatives of the agricultural sector. Richard Hull also attended and was on the organising committee for this event. There was a debate session in the afternoon which engaged many members of the audience. Laura Crook was asked to manage the Twitter account for the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	BCPC diseases review, 19 Oct 2022
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Co-organised the conference: BCPC diseases review, 19 Oct 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/expert-groups/diseases#:~:text=The%20purpose%20of%20the%20BCPC%20Diseases%20Wor...

Description	BSPP-AAB Plant Pathology 2023 conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Keynote invited presentation and session chair at BSPP-AAB Plant Pathology 2023 conference, Edgbaston, Birmingham, 6th - 8th September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.bspp.org.uk/conferences/plant-pathology-2023/

Description	Blowing in the wind Blog
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Blog wnet out via 'agricology' site, no idea how many read it
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Brasscia Research Community Annual Stakeholder Forum
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	24 Nov 2020 J West chaired this online workshop in which members of the Brassica Research Community in the UK presented their research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Bridging the gap between weed genomics and herbicide resistance management
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Paul Neve organised and chaired the workshop. A resulting paper with Neve and Gaines as joint corresponding authors was submitted and is in review. The workshop was part of ongoing efforts to promote an international community effort towards an international weed genomics consortium with Neve and Gaines as key contributors
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	British Crop Protection Council / Association of Applied Biologists Grass weed workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Richard Hull chaired this grass weed control workshop session, reviewing and selecting submitted papers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.nfuonline.com/cpsb_2018_pbf-updated-07_08_2018-2/

Description	British Science Week & SETPOINT Hertfordshire and educational charity Talk "Food = Plants"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	We are proud to offer a free inspiring talk for British Science Week by Dr Dana MacGregor of Rothamsted Research, linked to the theme of Growth! Let's go on a journey backwards from what is on our plates to see how it got there! 'Food = Plants' A special online presentation for Upper KS2 pupils by Dr Dana MacGregor, a Biologist at Rothamsted Research at 9:15 - 10:00am on Friday, 11th of March The talk: We'll explore the different input stages that are required to get food from the field to your plate selecting seed, sowing them, getting them to survive, getting them to produce the product, and then harvesting and delivering that product. See plant growth in a whole new light!
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Qb3kjFBYcE2nP_4Vh3S1I8um18E1zABKj17_wi0W_rlUMUZL...

Description	British Science Week Opening Lecture for STEMPoint East - "Food = Plants"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	British Science Week got off to a great start with a fabulous talk by an eminent plant molecular geneticist based at Rothamsted Research. Dr Dana MacGregor presented a talk entitled "Plants = Food" to 5,500 pupils from 84 schools around the region on Friday, 11th March. The children asked dozens of questions during the interactive presentation, and Dana replied to many at the session and also in a follow-up email to schools.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToaB5fNymW4

Description	CPA Annual Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Debate on effects of Brexit on UK agriculture
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	CROPS_PSI Rothamsted Poster Symposium
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	Co-Hosted a virtual research poster symposium with plant science researchers from CROPS (https://unlcrops.wixsite.com/psi-crops) and Rothamsted Research on Tuesday, April 27th and Wednesday, April 28th from 9:00-11:00 am CST (15:00-17:00 pm GMT).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Camberley U3A
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on pesticides and alternatives
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Cereals
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Demonstrating black-grass research undertaken at Rothamsted. Plots displaying crops that could be used for integrated weed management and controlled management.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/

Description	Cereals 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Demonstration of new equipment developed in two InnovateUK and one AHDB project, secondly publicising the CroProtect project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Cereals 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This annual event is the arable industry's leading technical event and has exhibits by many of the stakeholders with whom Rothamsted works. It was advised to us that Cereals was an excellent networking event which provided an opportunity to learn more about the arable industry. This event occurred on the 13th June, 2018 at Chrishall Grange, Nr. Duxford.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2018
URL	http://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/

Description	Cereals 2018 13-14 June 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	At this large Farmer-focussed annual event, over two days, we presented and demonstrated new devices developed in our research, jointly with an industry partner (Burkard).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/

Description	Cereals 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	We presented current research in the InnovateUK project 'Spraysaver (105148) and our Smart Crop Protection project on methods for mobile and fixed monitoring and detection of airborne pathogens.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.cerealsevent.co.uk/

Description	Cereals Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Promoting smart crop protection at Annual Cereals event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Cereals LIVE 2020 - AHDB Theatre tent: Presentation on Non-(synthetic) chemical control of cabbage stem flea beetle: Habitat management
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation aimed at farmers on non-chemical control options available for control of cabbage stem flea beetle; followed by discussion /questions to panel
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Cereals event: June 13-14, weeds group
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The weed ecology, evolution and management group presented and discussed latest research findings on blackgrass resistance and management with UK farmers and industry representatives.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Chemical Industry Journal Coverage of Mellado-Sanchez et al., 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A team of scientists from Rothamsted Research have successfully adapted genetic techniques developed for crop improvement to be used in weeds - allowing them, for the first time, to directly study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Writing in the journal Plant Physiology, the group report they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/scientists-make-gene-breakthrough-in-fight-against-weeds

Description	Chemistry at Work Demonstration Days
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Laura Crook talked about black-grass and it's effect on UK arable farms to school pupils
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Conference Organiser: co-organised the BCPC diseases review, 21 Oct 2021
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Co-organised a one-day conference, which was the BCPC diseases review, 21 Oct 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.bcpc.org/expert-groups/diseases

Description	Covid19 and Plant Disease Pandemic Podcast on Radio Verulam
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Jon West recorded a podcast, which went out on Radio Verulam on the 25th Nov 2020. The article is about our work on plant diseases, how plant diseases compare to the Covid pandemic and some cross-over of our work on spore dispersal that has been used to inform on potential dispersal of Covid19 in droplets. My piece starts around 2 mins 45 seconds into the 17 minute recording. https://radioverulam.com/podcast/plant-pandemics-covid/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://radioverulam.com/podcast/plant-pandemics-covid/

Description	Cranfield University - Rothamsted Research: Engineering science for Agritech and Agrifood.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A collaboration workshop to explore potential areas of common interest related to engineering, sensors and data science in agriculture. The Smart Crop protection programme was presented and discussed.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Create - A - Plant Judging event for STEMPoint East
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Our ever-popular paper engineering challenge this year was called 'Create-a-Plant', fitting in with the overall British Science Week theme of 'growth'. 195 primary schools from the East of England registered more than 35,000 pupils to take part in this free competition! Our guest judge - Dr Dana MacGregor had this to say: "I was very impressed by the creativity and 3D-engineering of these projects. The students clearly showed that they had thought about the different parts that their created plants would need and did a marvellous job of engineering beautiful creations in just one hour using only cut recycled paper. I am truly impressed with all of the entries and hope the students had fun creating their plants!" With a special commendation to Aldborough Primary for their fantasic 'whole school' display on Plants
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Crop Protection Association/Fresh Produce Consortium annual conference, Peterborough 23 January 2018 (invited presentation)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Invited presentation about Advances in pathogen detection, monitoring and forecasting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://freshproduce.org.uk/media/694099/Briefing-Document-23-Jan.pdf

Description	CropProtect App presentation to AICC Summer Technical Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	5-6/July/2022 Presented a talk about the CropProtect App and acted as a discussion panellist at the AICC Summer Technical Event, 5th & 6th July 2022, at Rothamsted Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	CropTec - November 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	We displayed two areas of our work in Smart Crop Protection: Insect Survey and automated spore samplers, along with other Rothamsted exhibits.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.croptecshow.com/

Description	CropTec 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Paul Neve gave a talk entitled "farm networks for smart resistance monitoring and management: a blackgrass case study" as well as manning the Smart crop protection exhibits on the Rothamsted stand.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.croptecshow.com/

Description	Croprotect Workshop - A Sustainable Future for UK Crop Protection - a Rothamsted Perspective
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Several Rothamsted staff, including Jon West, made 10-minute presentations plus answered questions in an online workshop.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Croptec 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presented current research in Smart Crop Protection including exibits of new prototype equipment and information posters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.croptecshow.com/

Description	Current status and future directions of Levy walk research
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	There were 17 senior scientists (academics) from across the global in attendance together with 10 early career scientists. The objective was resolve issues in the interpretation and modelling of organism movement patterns. The field of enquiry is fractured. I brought together experts from various sides. Many issues were resolved and many attitudes, including my own, were changed. We are closer now closer to a consensus. The first concrete impact was the review article: Reynolds A.M. 2017. Current status and future directions of Lévy walk research. Biology Open 7: bio030106.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.biologists.com/workshops/current-status-and-future-directions-in-levy-walk-research

Description	Department seminar: Colorado State University "Evolution at large; the blackgrass epidemic from field to gene"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presented above titled talk as part of departmental seminar series at Colorado State University
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Dispersal workshop, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	CSIRO: Epidemiological and evolutionary modelling of pests and pathogens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	ENDURE ExCom meeting on glyphosate
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	This meeting was convened by the ENDURE (http://www.endure-network.eu/) Executive Committee to consider current uses of glyphosate for weed management in the EU, threats to its ongoing registration and the availability of alternative weed management tools. There was agreement amongst participating countries / members to write a 'white paper' on current uses of glyphosate in the EU and the need for development of alternative weed management practices to replace glyphosate in the event that it is not re-registered for use in the EU.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	EPPO working group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	European Plant Protection Organization EPPO Workshop on Insect Pest Management in oilseed rape JKI Berlin, Germany 20-22/9/17. I presented an invited oral review presentation on 'Insect Pests in Oilseed rape' ; and one offered oral presentation on 'IPM of pollen beetle in oilseed rape'. The 'state of the art' and reccommendations for future research focus were drawn together from the presentations and will be used by EPPO and published in their Bulletin
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.eppo.int/MEETINGS/2017_meetings/wk_ipm_oilseed_rape

Description	EWRS and IWGC Sponsored Weed Genomics Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The EWRS Working groups "Education & Training", "Weed Management in Mediterranean Cropping Systems" and "Herbicide Resistance" are organizing a 4-day in-depth training course on weed genomics in February/March 2023. The course will be supported by the International Weed Genomics Consortium (IWGC). The course is aimed at students, Ph.D. candidates and postdocs actively involved in research on weed genomics, weeds resistant to herbicides and weed stress. In this course, we will provide an overview of concepts and tools that can be used to access and analyze the genome of weed species and populations genetics. More specifically, the focus of the course will be on: 1. Introduction to genomic, IWGC, and herbicide resistance 2. Introduction to the IWGC database - Weedpedia 3. Genome sequence generation, analyses and specific questions 4. Transcriptome analyses, pitfalls and additional information 5. Other genomic technologies (e.g. QTL analyses, etc.) 6. Practical work exploring non-target site resistance and /or other weed traits Aside from deepening your scientific knowledge, this course also offers an excellent opportunity to broaden your network and to interact with established scientists. Additionally, students can be awarded 2 ECTS-credit points from Ondokuz Mayis University (Turkey) when successfully participating in the course. Lecturers Roland Beffa (Senior Scientist Consultant, Germany) Eric Patterson (Michigan State University, US) Dana MacGregor (Rothamsted Research, UK) Maor Matzrafi (Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Institute, Israel) Other lecturer to be announced Date of the course: 27 February - 02 March 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://www.ewrs.org/en/info/Events/EWRS-and-IWGC-Training-course-ldquo-Weed-genomicsrdquo

Description	East Anglia AICC talk and discussion - on line Sept 2022
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Detailed on line two hr presentation and discussion on take-all root disease causes and problems in arable rotations where wheat crop frequency is high. The participants from Rothamsted were long time take-all team member and field trials specialist Gail Canning and Take-all team Leader Kim Hammond-Kosack. The discussions included the six AICC members explaining difficult on farm scenarios that had been repeatedly encounters at multiple sites in different years and asking our opinions on control options and alterations to the other cropped species and agronomic practices used in wheat dominated rotations. Post the meeting information was exchanged and we now have lists of cultivars that appear to do well in 2nd wheat situations across East and/or the Midlands that could possible be included in future field trial experimentation at Rothamsted.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	EastBio Doctoral Training Programme - Student Invited Speaker for Keynote Panel
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The purpose of this letter is to formally invite you, on behalf of the Symposium Organising Committee, to be one of our guest speakers at the upcoming 2022 Annual Symposium of the EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership; the symposium will be held in Edinburgh (central campus, John McIntyre Conference Centre) from the 9th to the 10th of June. The EASTBIO DTP, funded by BBSRC since 2012, is a partnership between the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and St Andrews and Stirling, including the IBioIC, SRUC, MRI and JHI, designed to provide PhD training in areas of strategic relevance to UK bioscience. The eleventh symposium of the partnership gives the current four cohorts of EASTBIO PhD students, their supervisors and colleagues at our partner institutions the opportunity to reflect on and explore the Symposium focus on bioscience research. The student-led programme is currently structured around parallel sessions of student presentations, a keynote talk on food security and an interactive panel discussion titled "The Future of Big Data in One Health". We are writing to invite you to join this discussion as a guest panellist. We anticipate contributions of around 5 minutes in length for each panellist and the chair, followed by a moderated question and answer session. The panel will aim to explore the potential of using big data to tackle challenges in 'One Health', the dynamic intersection of human, animal, and plant health. From the sustainability of livestock systems to the use of data in agriculture and clinical settings, the discussion will centre around the panellists' research and experiences relating to these topics. Possible questions could include: ? What is your understanding of 'One Health' and how does it relate to your research area? ? How do you envision big data being used to design integrated solutions that could bridge human, animal, and plant health? ? What are the major challenges in ensuring that big data is consistent and accessible? Given your extensive experience in plant molecular biology through your current research in blackgrass and your previous work in Arabidopsis and Brassica, we would greatly value your insights and thought you'd be a great addition to this panel to offer a plant health perspective to the discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	http://www.eastscotbiodtp.ac.uk/eastbio-symposium-2022

Description	Evolution of fungicide resistance in UK field populations of Zymoseptoria tritici, APS Plant Health 2019 Conference ', Cleveland, USA, August 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented latest information on fungicide resistance development in Septoria Leaf Blotch populations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Extra SoBMS Seminar at University of Plymouth
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Less than 20 people attended a 1 hour lecture I delivered at the University of Plymouth as part of their SoBMS Seminar series. My title was "Bringing Agricultural Weeds into the Molecular Labs" and the talk focused on how we are working to bring agricultural weeds into the molecular laboratory and generate the necessary resources and techniques that will allow us to directly do hypothesis-led science in these species to better understand the genetics and genomics of these harmful, impactful plants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Far Eastern Agriculture coverage of Mellado-Sanchez et al 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Rothamsted Research scientists make gene breakthrough in fight against weeds Created: Thursday, 09 April 2020 05:21 A team of scientists from Rothamsted Research have successfully adapted genetic techniques developed for crop improvement to be used in weeds - allowing them, for the first time, to directly study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. The aim is to design and develop weed management strategies that are effective and sustainable. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Writing in the journal Plant Physiology, the group report they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory. Researchers can directly show that a specific gene is required for herbicide resistance, or else is sufficient to confer it. A 'game-changer' for weed genetics, says the lead researcher
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.fareasternagriculture.com/crops/agriculture/rothamsted-research-scientists-make-gene-bre...

Description	Farmer workshop presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Paul Neve gave a 45-minute presentation to a farming group to discuss the evolution and management of resistance to the herbicide, glyphosate.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Farmer_Agronomist engagement at Cereals Event June 2022 Cambridgeshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Phenomenal interest in this Take-all root disease and health root system display, > 1000 visitors over 2 days. A three poster and six large field plot display at the annual Cereals event. We showcased the LowTAB trait and how this could be used by farmers, farm managers and agronomists to improve the health of root systems in 2nd wheat rotation positions and hence improve fertiliser uptake. We were able to provide to the visitors a provisional recommended list for ~10 winter wheat cultivars tested over 2- 5 seasons so that they could make informed choices about which cultivars to use in 1st and/or 2nd wheat situations on their farms. Also considerable information was given on what are the major causes of this root disease and the effects of grass weeds on disease severity and resistance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	FarmingUK Team Coverage of Mellado-Sanchez et al. 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Scientists make gene breakthrough in fight against weeds 14 April 2020 | by FarmingUK Team | Arable, News Scientists have made a gene breakthrough in the fight against weeds, allowing - for the first time - a chance to study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Now scientists have reported they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.farminguk.com/news/scientists-make-gene-breakthrough-in-fight-against-weeds_55422.html

Description	Fast-Tracked Surveillance of the Peach-Potato Aphid: Vector Forecasting, Virus Yellows and Insecticide Resistance
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation to BBRO, the sugar beet levy board, and stakeholders to demonstrate impact of RIS and extend funding for a period of 4 years
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	GARNet Podcast - Plant Journal ICE1 seed dormancy paper
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was interviewed by Geraint Perry at GARNet about my first author paper published in The Plant Journal titled 'ICE1 and ZOU determine the depth of primary seed dormancy in Arabidopsis independently of their role in endosperm development' DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14211. The discussion also covered more general topics such as the challenges of publishing research that was conducted in the past in a previous lab. 18/9/19
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/dana-macgregor-talks-to-garnet/

Description	GCRF Africa Workshops June 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A series of talks online, organizes by the UK KTN to brief people on upcoming funding opportunities from GCRF, Agritech Catalyst and UK KTP. Jon West gave a pitch in the East Africa and Southern Africa sessions. This led to an application to Agritech Catalyst round 10. Example 2-minute video pitch is 15 mins 35 seconds into this YouTube link: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=YouTube+UK+short+pitches+GCRF+Africa&docid=608032572298429384|=821100F0382FEAA133C3821100F0382FEAA133C3&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=YouTube+UK+short+pitches+GCRF+Africa&docid=608032572298429384&m...

Description	Genetic Literacy Project coverage of Mellado-Sanchez et al. 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Viruses that 'turn off' plant genes could help farmers battle herbicide-resistant weeds A team of scientists from Rothamsted Research have successfully adapted genetic techniques developed for crop improvement to be used in weeds - allowing them, for the first time, to directly study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Writing in the journal Plant Physiology, the group report they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/04/15/viruses-that-turn-off-plant-genes-could-help-farmers-b...

Description	Genetics society article: Injection steps for CRISPR/Cas9
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A written article for the Genetics Society Magazine, detailing best practice for CRISPR/Cas9 oocyte injection in Drosophila melanogaster. The article was prompted by a visit made, under funding from the society, to a specialist genomic engineering faculty in Maryland, USA.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Global Herbicide Resistance Challenge conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talks and poster were given by a number of the BGRI team (Comont, Onkokesung, Neve, Hull, Crook). Neve organised a workshop on weed genomics for weed management. This workshop and other related follow on activities has led to the establishment of an international weed genomics consortium, including well-advanced plans to generate a reference genome for black-grass.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Government Open Access article (Jan 2020), page 370 entitled ' Fighting infectious diseases: Protecting the global wheat crop with big data analysis and knowledge networks'
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	This article was written to increase awareness of the importance of crop plant health amongst UK and European politicians, leaders of industry and leaders of third sector organisations. The article had a focus on the effects of disease causing pathogens on the No 1 arable crop in Europe namely wheat and how experimentation is increasing becoming predictive through using big data sets and network analyses. The two BBSRC funded resources highlighted in this online and hard copy article are the Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) and the knowledge graphical visualisation tool Knetminer.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=e7e6...

Description	Grass Identification Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	This was the fourth repeat of a grass identification workshop led by Stephen Moss at Rothamsted Research (Saturday 16 June). The aim was to teach identification techniques for vegetative and floral characteristics of British grasses. Part of the workshop was indoors identifying supplied samples with a visit to Park Grass for practical application as well.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016,2017,2018

Description	Guest blog post with Agricology
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Richard Hull wrote a guest blog post as part of the Agricology Pest of the Month series on the broad-leaved weed chickweed, entitled What lurks below. The piece looked into aspects of the species agroecology to see where control could be most beneficial to farmers. The post was widely shared on Twitter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.agricology.co.uk/field/blog/what-lurks-below

Description	Guest blog post with Botany One
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Laura Crook wrote a guest blog post for Botany One plant records week entitled Big Problem. Big Experiments. Big Data. This discussed the issues surrounding the problem of black-grass and the research that has been undertaken to study the causes. The post was shared over 100 times and got extensive coverage on Twitter and Facebook.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.botany.one/2017/12/plant-records-big-problem-big-experiments-big-data/

Description	Hack.Agtech
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	50 engineers, scientists and students from diverse backgrounds attended a three-day meeting in order to make partnerships towards developing solutions for boosting food security in the developing world
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Harpenden Carnival
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was part of a team that manned a stand at the Harpenden Carnival on 9/6/2018 to raise awareness of Rothamsted Research and our upcoming Festival of Ideas. During the allocated times, we interacted with the general public informing them of the Festival of Ideas and more generally of what our aims and outcomes are at Rothamsted Research. We also handed out fliers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.harpendencarnival.com/history/2018-2/

Description	Harpenden Carnival
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Stand at Harpenden Carnival on pesticide resistance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Horizont2020 meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion on putting a H2020 proposal together on tree health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Hosted work experience students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Hosted work experience students and provided them work experience in the field of chemical ecology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	How can molecular ecology help us improve monitoring insect pests of agricultural importance?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	There was an interest in the topic and further discussions were carried out afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	IOBC Working Group on Integrated Control in Oilseeds
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	I am co-convenor of this group and convened the Entomology subsection of the meeting which took place in Zagreb, Croatia 18-20/9/18. 50 Entomologists attended (and the same number of pathologists). I edited the abstracts and papers which formed the IOBC-WPRS Bulletin Volume 36.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.iobc-wprs.org/expert_groups/04_wg_oilseed_crops.html

Description	IPM KTN online event 9 June 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West attended this workshop organized by the Knowledge Transfer Network and took part in interactive surveys and Q&A sessions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	IRAG
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on Resistance Monitoring.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	ISCE 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at the 2019 International Society of Chemical Ecology meeting, Atlanta, USA, on the development of a low-input management system for the pest pod-borer Maruca vitrata on cowpea, Vigna unguiculata.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	ISPA22 International Society of Plant Anaerobiosis Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A talk was presented at the ISPA conference. Abstract below. Black-grass is the UK's most costly and problematic weed. In wheat fields, it can form high-density patches especially on heavy soil prone to waterlogging. We suspect this patchiness occurs in part because black-grass can endure waterlogging better than wheat and therefore survives on these patches while wheat cannot. This project is aimed at quantifying the ability of black-grass and wheat to survive waterlogging and examining a set of physical, genetic, and metabolic traits in each species in order to gain a mechanistic understanding of the differential abilities of these sympatric species to survive waterlogging stress. Our preliminary data shows black-grass and wheat exhibit genetic variation in waterlogging tolerance. This variation is manifested as differences in the plant height and fresh weight when plants are grown in waterlogged compared to control conditions. We also see that both black-grass and wheat can induce aerenchyma in their roots when waterlogged. Using our recently sequenced and annotated black-grass genome and transient virus-mediated transformation techniques adapted for use in black-grass, we can identify and confirm the genetic drivers of waterlogging tolerance. This research will allow us to better understand how black-grass survives in the UK's agroecosystem in a direct side-by-side comparison to wheat. In the near future, the understanding gained in this project will protect wheat against yield losses due to both black-grass competition and increased waterlogging events brought about by climate change.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/veranstaltungen/ispa22-anaerobiosis/

Description	Innovate in the East - Presentation 20 April 2018, (BT Adastral Park, Ipswich)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Jon West made a 15 minute presentation to an audience of about 80 people at this KTN event
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Insect Declines with James Bell for ITV News At Ten
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	James Bell and the work of the Rothamsted Insect Survey feature on ITV News at Ten to discuss recent reports of insect declines
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/video/fall-in-number-of-flying-insects-england-close-shot-of-ne...

Description	Insitute visit by Director General of National Agro-technical Extension and Service Center, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (NATESC, MARA).
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Visit by delegate from China official led by Director General of National Agro-technical Extension and Service Center, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs (NATESC, MARA). 20 delegates from NATESC visitd Rothamsted Radar Entomology Unit to discuss the possibilities of the use of Vertical Looking Radar in China's nationwide pest monitroing strategy under Green Agricultural Development of China.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Institute Research Day presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Institute Research Day presentation, 9th May 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Institute Seminar
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Seminar on Neonicotinoids and Bees
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	International Congress of Plant Pathology, Boston, USA, 29 July-3 Aug 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West co-organised and chaired a session and made a presentation at this international conference, which had over 2500 delegates. Video of presentation is at: https://www.apsnet.org/publications/Webinars/Pages/2018videos.aspx?LID=Paper3980.mp4
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://www.icpp2018.org/Pages/default.aspx

Description	International Online Agricultural Council - Canola/Rapeseed Invited presentation on IPM in canola and participation in panel discussion
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	18/12/2020 Online session on growing oilseed rape. I was part of the panel discussion pest management. The audience was international but organised in Ukraine so there was live translation into Ukrainian! The events were livestreamed on You-Tube. I was particularly interested in this to begin to develop links with OSR production in Ukraine / Russia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://travelite.com.ua/agricultural-crops-production-council/

Description	International Weed Genomics 2nd Annual Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk presented at the 2nd meeting of the International Weed Genomics Consortium. Abstract below. Weed Scientists are fortunate to have increased access to genomic data for problematic weeds. These data are unequivocally leading to better knowledge and understanding of the fundamental biology of weediness, weed population genetics, and ecology. However, many scientific disciplines agree that a genome for a representative of a species is insufficient and like other data, analysis of genomic data generates new hypotheses that require further testing. Our own recent publications have shown that not all weedy traits are functionally equivalent at a molecular level and that the genetic basis of weedy traits differs between populations. We have identified genes and pathways associated with weediness but not which cause it. As future food security depends on our ability to understand the fundamental biology of weeds to prevent the real-world harm they cause, Weed Science requires tools to rapidly and accurately test whether interesting candidates are correlative or causative for the phenotype of interest. Alongside many others, we are bringing agricultural weeds into the molecular laboratory and generating the necessary resources and techniques that will allow us to directly do hypothesis-led science in weedy species. For instance, using the troublesome arable weed black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides), we adapted methods for virus-induced gene silencing or virus-mediated overexpression to transiently reduce or induce gene expression in planta respectively. This presentation will discuss those breakthroughs, reiterate why they are necessary, and explain how having genomic resources and genetic tools has enabled and will continue to enable better molecular-level understanding of weediness and weedy traits.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://events.anr.msu.edu/event.cfm?eventID=8A6633CAA4A63965ED3A7668F592AD2EF7446D84806DFD55B8ABA18...

Description	International Weed Genomics Consortium: follow-up meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Paul Neve co-organised a meeting of the International Weed Genomics Consortium at the Weed Science Society of America annual meeting. At this meeting further steps were taken towards the establishment of a coordinating committee for this global efforts towards generating genomic resources for the world's most important weed species.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Interview for BBC Radio 4
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Discussion on pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Interview for Farmers Guide with Heather Briggs
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Contacted by Heather Briggs at Farmers Guide for a follow up on our recently published paper. Farmers Guide is the premier monthly farming magazine mailed free and direct to farmers and contractors across the UK, providing free FarmAds for every agricultural reader.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://issuu.com/farmersguide3/docs/2020-09

Description	Interview for Farmers Weekly podcast
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Interview with Hugh Broom on conservation biological control of cabbage stem flea beetle for the Farmers Weekly Podcast. This was broadcast in Episode 13, 26th June 2020 (min 19:46 onwards) https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/farmers-weekly-podcast-episode-13-elm-scheme-and-flea-beetle-hope
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/farmers-weekly-podcast-episode-13-elm-scheme-and-flea-beetle-hope

Description	Interview for Nature Biotechnology article (VOLUME 36 NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 2018 Pp 783-784).
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave an interview to Eric Smalley in August 2018. Parts were cited in: Smalley E 2018 In silico farming drives next wave in agriculture. Nature Biotechnology, VOLUME 36 NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 2018 Pp 783-784.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0918-783a

Description	Interview for national news
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Interview on Farming Today at the start of their crop protection week
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Interview from Year 5 Harpenden Academy Student
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Our local primary school - Harpenden Academy - were studying the lives of Plant Scientists and were asked to do a report on one of their choosing. I was asked to do an interview so that the student could use me as their subject. There were two students present and the subsequent video was shared among the classroom.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Interview on Radio 4's Farming Today programme
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	David Comont gave an interview to the Farming Today programme about work on glyphosate resistance in black-grass
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Interview with Brazilian press
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Three Brazilian journalists visited Rothamsted to discuss contemporary agricultural issues and associated research. Paul Neve spoke with them about the Smart Crop Protection programme for one hour.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Interview with Farming Press journalist (CPM Magazine)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Interview led to publication of article in CPM Magazine on 4/8/20 'Fending for the natural foe' by Lucy de la Pasture Primary audience Farmers and Farming Industry business
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2020/08/04/ipm-special-fending-for-the-natural-foe/

Description	Invited Seminar - School of Life and Medical Sciences at University of Hertfordshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was invited to give a seminar for the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire on the 14 June 2021. I spoke about my work and how by understanding the molecular mechanisms that underpin weediness, we can identify exploitable strengths and weaknesses that can be used to sustainably enhance agricultural production.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Invited annual David Staniforth Lecture, Iowa State University
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Paul Neve was invited to this annual, memorial lecture entitled "Weed science: running to stand still?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Invited lecture on IPM in oilseed rape at University Gottingen, Germany
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited talk to c. 50 Gottingen university students; lots of questions on pest management in oilseed rape and sparked student interest in this area; request for co-supervision of 1 MSc and 1 PhD studentship.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Invited oral presentation given at Plant Health at the Age of Metagenomics, Scientific Colloquium -Paris France September 2019 by Kim Hammond-Kosack
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Oral Presentation entitled 'Using a FAIR database and bioinformatics analyses to improve plant, human, animal and ecosystem health' at Plant Health at the Age of Metagenomics, given at a Scientific Colloquium organised by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization and the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding UNESCO, Paris, France, 26th September 2019. This scientific colloquium focussed on ways to improve phytosanitation methods and the detection of emerging plant pathogen threats across the 31 different country borders throughout Europe Link to the video-recordings - http://bit.ly/350Hm1P Link to the recorded presentation - https://zenodo.org/record/3471776#.XZY8z0Yzbcs
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://zenodo.org/record/3471776#.XZY8z0Yzbcs

Description	Invited oral presentation given at the 6th Plant Genomics and Gene Editing Conference, (May 2019, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) by Kim Hammond-Kosack
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This invited oral presentation and discussion was given to increase awareness of the PHI-base resource to the European Plant Health community that are focussed on delivering improvements to either the arable or horticultural sectors.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Invited presentation at the Nordic-Baltic Resistance Action Group.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Paul Neve was invited to make a presentation "Proactive and Reactive Approaches for Managing Herbicide Resistance in Global Cropping Systems." Neve also took part in a subsequent question and answer session. Participants were particularly interested to hear the UK experience of dealing with a current epidemic of herbicide resistant black-grass, as this species and associated resistance problems are increasing concerns in Nordic and Baltic countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Invited presentation on Conservation biocontrol to the Annual Meeting of the Italian Entomological Society (online)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited presentation on 9/6/20 on ''Building Confidence in Beneficials:Conservation BioControl of insect pests in oilseed rape crops'' as part of an online event organised by the Societa Entomologica Italiana & the Academia Nazionale Italiana di Entomologia 8-12 June 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.fidaf.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Giornate_Culturali2020_Programme-v2.pdf

Description	Invited speaker 'Cultural management, fungicide resistance and epidemiology of cereal leaf blights, with focus on Septoria leaf blotch' International Symposium on Cereal Leaf Blights, University College Dublin, Ireland (22-24 May 2019)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented latest development of control of fungal cereal pathogens and future research priorities
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Invited speaker 'Fungicide resistance in different habitats and produce' at workshop 'Azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus: the next step' Trippenhuis Royal Netherlands Society of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (31 January 2019).
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Azole resistance is a concern for the management of diseases caused by Aspergillus fumigatus in humans. Azole fungicide use in the environment has been identified as possible cause for resistance development, and thus increases the complexity and number of stakeholders involved in this emerging problem. We aim to bring together relevant stakeholders including medical and agricultural researchers, representatives from the government, fungicide producers and users, and public health to review the current evidence supporting environmental resistance selection and to discuss which research and measures are needed to retain the azole class for environmental and medical applications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Invited speaker 'Use of azoles in agriculture and resistance risk' at the Scientific meeting 'Azole Resistance in a One Health Perspective', Oslo, Norway 22-23 January 2019.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	WHY THIS MEETING? Fungal infections caused by opportunistic fungi such as Aspergillus fumigatus kill more than 1 million people annually worldwide (equivalent to deaths caused by tuberculosis or malaria). The number will likely increase considerably because medical treatment becomes less effective as the fungus develops resistance to the commonly used antifungal compounds containing azoles. The resistance against azoles is dispersed globally at a disturbing speed. Fungal infections that are resistant to antifungal treatment are an emerging public health problem, requiring immediate action. The global community has a strong focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), but almost solely on antibacterial resistance. Azoles are efficient fungicides, commonly used both to treat and prevent fungal infections (mycoses) in humans and animals, to manage fungal diseases in food production and horticulture, and to protect materials against mould growth. Azole-based antifungal treatment has made it possible to cure Aspergillus fumigatus infections. However, several international studies have shown that the widespread use of azoles in agriculture, horticulture and forestry have caused a selection pressure driving the fungal population to develop resistance to azoles, threatening effectivity of the whole azole class. Furthermore, residues of azoles in nature are regarded as environmental toxins and are suggested to have general endocrine disrupting properties. The case fatality rates in patients with culture-positive azole-resistant invasive aspergillosis (IA) varies between 50% and 100%. Reports of clinical and environmental azole resistant A. fumigatus strains world-wide indicate that azole resistance is increasing. Surveillance studies have shown that in areas where Aspergillus is endemic, the environmental route of resistance selection contributes to > 90 % of resistance mechanisms in azole-resistant Aspergillus diseases. The scope of the meeting is to get an overview of the current situation and discuss how we can prevent the rapid spread of azole resistance globally. Where are the hot spots or resistance development? What are our priorities? What is the situation in Norway? The impact of climate changes. Biodiversity. One Health. Sustainability. The ResAzoleNet project focuses on a neglected part of the One Health AMR resistance perspective, and addresses both mechanisms of AMR and strategies to prevent AMR. The project consortium includes research groups in Norway, Denmark and the Netherland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Invited speaker American Phytopathological Society (APS) annual meeting (San Antonio, USA)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Further discussions with audience on topic 'Evolution of multi-fungicide resistance in cereal pathogens and impact on disease control' after presentation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Invited speaker at the 2017 APS Annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA (8 August 2017) 'Evolution of multi-fungicide resistance in cereal pathogens and impact on disease control'.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	APS Annual Meeting 2017, American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Date: 8/5/2017 - 8/9/2017 , Venue: Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio TX, United States APS's premier event, the APS Annual Meeting, attracts more than 1,500 participants each year. It's where the latest information on plant pathology in unveiled, where you'll have the opportunity to participate in symposia and discussion sessions, present research results, view hundreds of technical posters, attend special events, learn about new products and services, and connect with others who share your interests.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Invited speaker at the 20th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1 July 2018) 'Role of agricultural pesticide use in the evolution of triazole resistance in fungi'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	20th Congress of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology, 30 June-4 July 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Congresses of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM) are held every three years and provide clinicians, scientists, and students an opportunity to meet at an international forum dedicated to the study of medical mycology. The 20th ISHAM is co-hosted by the Netherland Society of Medical Mycology (NVMy).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Invited speaker to 'Frontiers in Chemical Biology 2023' conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited speaker to the 'Frontiers in Chemical Biology 2023' symposium to present research outputs relating to insect olfactionary mechanisms.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023

Description	Invited talk at Ento 21
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented sumary of use of pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Invited talk on the PHI-base database given at the European Fusarium workshop, in Rome, Italy, February 2020 by Martin Urban
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The invite talk was entitled 'The Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base): a phenotype database for pathogens, hosts and their interactions to enhance global food security and human health'. This talk was given to raise awareness in the International Fusarium community of the very large number of database entries that have arisen from gene function studies in a wide range of Fusarium species infecting various cereal and non- cereal plant species. The talk also highlighted that the data in the PHI-base resource is also available and is searchable from within the ENSEMBL fungal genomes resource hosted by the EMBL-EBI, Cambridge as well as the FungiDB resource.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Invited talk to BCPC Pests & Beneficials Annual Review
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I presented an invited talk on 'Building confidence in Beneficials: Conservation Biocontrol in Oilseed rape' at the for the BCPC Pests & Beneficials Working Group Annual Meeting (31/1/18). My talk generated some interesting questions, Twitter activity and farming press article in Farmers Guardian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Invited talk to SCI Early Career Forum on careers in Institutes
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Explaining careers in research institutes
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	JIC Women of the Future
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	The JIC run a Women of the Future event for schools in late November. We have send people across to take part the past two years and this year its all gone online. James Piercy requested Leanne Gunn contact Rothamsted women who might be interested, I replied. They were recording Women at all levels of STEM careers talking about what they do, why it is cool, what their aspirations are, how they got there and general other inspirational things to include during the event for year 10 students (15 year olds).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.jic.ac.uk/training-careers/work-experience/women-of-the-future/women-of-the-future-2020-...

Description	Joint online workshop "To understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth" between Rothamsted and Kew
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The aim of the meeting is to enable staff from both institutes to present a quick (e.g. 3-5 minute) talk so that everyone has the opportunity to showcase their work, particularly outlining areas of potential overlap and opportunities for collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Keynote Speaker for Weed Genomics Section of the 19th EWRS Symposium
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The scientific programme included four days of sessions plus one day prior to the Symposium dedicated to the EWRS workshop(s). Up to two parallel sessions ran which consisted of keynote papers, standard platform presentations and poster presentations. I was invited to co-chair and be the Keynote speaker for the session on Weed Genomics and Population Genetics and stood in for a co-chair for the Non-Chemical Weed Controll II session on the day. I was also named in two other abstracts that were selected for oral presentations during the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://ewrs2022.org/

Description	M Urban conference poster
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Poster 'Harnessing community expertise to determine anti-infective target sites' presented at Resistance '19, Rothamsted UK. 16-18th Sept 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	MSc Viva
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Acted as the external examiner for an MSc student, Miss Heather Fell, University of Hertfordshire
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Meeting and presentation with Pablo Luthro, Midven
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussion with Pablo Luthro from Midven to discuss seed funding opportunities for spin-out companies to commercialise research outputs.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting co-organiser
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Co-organiser of Royal Entomological Society Insect Behaviour Special Interest Group meeting, 14th March 2018.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Meeting with CABI on future collaborative activities
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	The visit and subsequent discussions were on future CABI/Rothamsted collaborations. After a general overview two brainstorming sessions were held, soil health / agricultural systems and crop protection with short presentations. The afternoon was focused on highlighting immediate opportunities and longer-term collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting with Green Biologics (now Biocleave)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussions relating to collaborative research projects with the industrial partner
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting with Limagrain representative
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussions with Limagrain to deploy research outputs in their field trials to evaluate effectiveness.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting with Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, chemical ecology group
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meeting with chemical ecology research group from Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich to discuss research areas for collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Meeting with Prof David Modise, North-Western University, South Africa
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meeting with Prof David Modise, North-Western University, South Africa, to discuss potential joint research areas and areas for collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Member of Defra SAC - monthly meetings
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Regular meetings of SAC to advise Defra Policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Monitoring and Forecasting Pests and Diseases Using Smart Surveillance Techniques
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	A presentation to highlight the work of the Rothamsted Insect Survey to Rice Farmers in Thailand and Indonesia and how using monitoring and forecasting they can challenge the threat posed by the brown rice plant hopper. Presentation by Skype 13.7.17
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	NEW-IPM conference, Swansea University 12-14/9/2022- Oral presentation on 'Developing a NEW-IPM strategy for cabbage stem flea beetle in oilseed rape
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Oral presentation on 'Developing a NEW-IPM strategy for cabbage stem flea beetle in oilseed rape
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	NFU Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on pesticides in agriculture
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	NFU discussion on crop protection post-Brexit
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	NFU organised meeting for farmers to discuss farming post-Brexit
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	NFU pesticide resistance workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	The National Farmers Union convened a meeting at their Stoneleigh HQ to discuss the current national situation relating to insecticide and herbicide resistance. Experts shared perspectives on the current extent of resistance in the UK and on current best management recommendations. There was a particular focus on establishing mechanisms for effective and consistent communication, particularly in relation to current threats of glyphosate resistance. Paul Neve presented on risks of glyphosate resistance. Stephen Foster (Rothamsted) on current knowledge and management recommendations relating to resistance to pyrethroid insecticides.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	New IPM Conference, Swansea 12-14 September 2022
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	12-14 Sept 2022 Chaired the opening session at the New IPM Conference and presented on surveillance and monitoring methods to detect crop diseases, Swansea 12-14 September 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.swansea.ac.uk/business-and-industry/linc/integrated-pest-management/

Description	New Scientist Live
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Had an interactive display called 'Combatting the Superpests' which featured 5 different common weeds, pests and diseases to show the general public the damage that these can cause to crops in the UK. This sparked questions and discussion from visitors with a range of ages.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://live.newscientist.com/2019-show-highlights#/

Description	New Scientist Live - Farmers Weekly Stand -
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I gave a presentation on the Farmer's Weekly sponsored Feed the World Stage, during Schools' Day at New Scientist Live. This was recorded and the video is at https://vimeo.com/765629190/0f6054c018. There was also a follow up article written at https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weed-management/the-scientific-work-helping-farmers-fight-herbicide-resistance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weed-management/the-scientific-work-helping-farmers-fig...

Description	New Scientist Live - Panel - Farming: the place to be for science and technology junkies
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was invited to be a panellist for the New Scientist Live's Virtual showcase for the "Farming: the place to be for science and technology junkies" session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://live.newscientist.com/

Description	New Scientist Live School's Day - 25 minute presentation on Farmers Weekly stage
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Through Farmers Weekly, I was offered an opportunity to give a 25 minute talk on teh "Feed the World" stage at this year's New Scientist Live event. I spoke about the impact of blackgrass on wheat yields and how my work to better understand its biology will help to better control it. A post event article has been included in Farmer's Weekly which can be found at https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weed-management/the-scientific-work-helping-farmers-fight-herbicide-resistance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weed-management/the-scientific-work-helping-farmers-fig...

Description	New scientist LIVE! 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I took part in a Panel Discussion on 'How to achieve innovation in farming'. I described my research and what innovation project I was most excited about; how I connect with the farming community and together how we can create a more sustainable approach to farming. There was an interesting chat dialogue driven by the audience that influenced the discussion.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.newscientist.com/science-events/future-food-agriculture/

Description	New ways to combat infectious diseases, article for Laboratory News
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This article was written to increase awareness of the importance of crop plant health, human health and ecosystem health amongst UK, European and International Researchers actively engaged in other research disciplines The article has a focus on the effects of disease causing pathogens (fungi, protists and bacteria) on different host species and how experimentation is increasing becoming predictive through using big data sets and network analyses. The two BBSRC funded resources highlighted in this online and hard copy article are the Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) and the knowledge graphical visualisation tool Knetminer.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.labnews.co.uk/

Description	OREGIN Staholders Forum - Presentation 'Improving establishment: does companion cropping work?'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Webinar presentation. Slides available on OREGIN website
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.herts.ac.uk/oregin/information

Description	OSR Masters (11/11/19)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	OSR Masters conference (11/11/2019) - Caitlin Willis invited speaker
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/ms/events/osr-masters/

Description	Online Workshop for Vitae International Researcher Development Conference 2022 - "Researcher Development by Stealth"
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	58 people attended live and others watched recording of a Workshop I designed and delivered for the Vitae International Researcher Development Conference 2022 about the work I am doing at Rothamsted to deliver Researcher Development through the "Things I Should Know" Seminar series. Considerable engagment during and after the workshop and several follow up conversations about exchange of best practice and ideas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.vitae.ac.uk/events/vitae-international-researcher-development-conference-2022/VitaeCon22...

Description	Online seminar to Sherrardspark Wood wardens
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	An online seminar on UK acute oak decline research, attended by ca. 30 people, including local wood wardens. The audience asked lots of questions on practical implications of our research in agroforestry. As a result, the organisers are going to schedule another meeting in autumn 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://www.sherrardsparkwoodwardens.org.uk/index.php/recent-news/226-managing-acute-oak-decline-in-s...

Description	Organiser of a Stakeholder Engagement Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	15 People attended a stakeholder engagement workshop at Embrapa-Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brasilia, 12th November 2019. The talk and workshop sparked questions from industry/business and increased interest in the subject area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Organising International Meeting Resistance 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Organised 3 day meeting at Rothmasted
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Organsing Committee Molecular Insect Sciences meeting, Barcleona, July 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited organsier for International meeting organised by Elsevier
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Participation at SCP Stakeholder Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presentation given on 'Next Generation Crop Protection' to SCP Stakeholder Advisory Group
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Participation at phosphorous workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation given on applications of 31P-NMR as a technique for investigating soil nutrient content.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Participation in Science Centre and Planetarium Public Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Participation in Magnificent Minibeasts public event, Winchester, 30th August 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Participation in the Brachypodium 2022 virtual meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	International Brachypodium virtual meeting 2022 (8-11 am PST, 11am-2pm EST, 16h-19h London, 17h-20h Zurich) June 14th, 2022 Workshop on Brachypodium resources featuring John Vogel, Richard Sibout, Anne Roulin, Sam Hazen, David Des Marais, Daniel Woods June 15th, 2022 Keynote Speakers: Madelaine Bartlett and John Vogel June 16th, 2022 Keynote Speakers: Ksenia Krasileva and Julian Schroeder Invited Speakers include: Antonio Manzaneda, Gandour Lab, Rassig Lab, Sanguinet Lab, Vermeer Lab / Cris Vieira, Hasterok lab + Mur Lab, Pilar Catalan, Josefine Kant, Geuten Lab, Amasino Lab, Juenger Lab, Liang Wu, Bouche lab, Wigge Lab, Jill Preston, Doonan Lab, Todd Blevins, David Des Marais, Jean Benoit-Charron
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Pesticides debate at WGIN conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Debate on crop protection without pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Plant Bacterial Diseases Town Hall Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Meeting to discuss the most important plant bacterial diseases, form working groups and put forward proposal ideas for upcoming BBSRC call.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	This meeting occurred on the 24-26th October 2018 and brought together an international panel of plant scientists working on model and crop species and on populations in their natural environment. The conference showcased the application of genomic techniques to understand genomes and how they vary across changing environments. It provided a platform for the transfer of knowledge of diverse plant systems that differ in their ecology, physiology, genomic complexity and share the tools that are available for research. The overall aim was to connect researchers from academia and industry.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/plant-genomes-2018/

Description	Plantae Presents: Dolf Weijers and Dana MacGregor
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many seminar series and conferences have been cancelled or postponed. In response to this, and to make sure plant scientists can continue to communicate their latest work to their peers, The American Society of Plant Biologists launched a virtual seminar series via our online community, Plantae. This is the 9th seminar in this new series, each of which features two speakers. I applied and was invited to present my work alongside Dolf
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://plantae.org/plantae-presents-dolf-weijers-and-dana-macgregor/

Description	Podcast Interview with Kevin Folta
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	I was invited to do a podcast with Kevin Folta. The goal of this podcast is to connect listeners with the problems we face as a people and planet, and then provide compelling interviews the world's experts to solve those problems.The hope is to inspire listeners to share these beautiful stories of how technology can help solve issues we all care about, and to reject fearful misinformation pushed by agenda-driven interests. Weeds are a tremendous problem in agriculture, costing farmers billions a year in crop loss and the cost of control. In Europe one of the critical weeds is black grass, which causes great losses in wheat and other grass crops. However, little is known about this weed, especially the molecular basis of herbicide resistance. Dr. Dana MacGregor came to the daunting task of attacking the molecular biology of a non-model organism. She has applied an ambitious toolbox from basic science to an aggressive agricultural pest. You can genuinely sense her passions in how to solve problems that matter using the tools of basic biology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.talkingbiotechpodcast.com/236-molecular-studies-in-weed-science/

Description	Politico Debate
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Debate in use of pesticides in EU
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Post-event Interview with Farmer's Weekly after New Scientist Live
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	As part of the follow up to the New Scientist Live presentation, I was interviewed by Emma Gillbard for a 15 October 2022 article entitled "The scientific work helping farms fight herbicide-resistance" about the talk, and my work more generally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/crop-management/weed-management/the-scientific-work-helping-farmers-fig...

Description	Poster presentation 'Mapping the adaptive landscape of Zymoseptoria tritici CYP51 under selection by azole fungicides' by Dr. Nichola Hawkins
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Poster presentation as part of the British Society of Plant Pathology (BSPP)/British Mycological Society (BMS) joint presidential meeting (Nottingham)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conferences - Salt and Water Stress in Plants
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The meeting will bring together researchers endeavoring to discover the mechanistic basis of stress tolerance in plants at different scales of organization. Our program represents an acknowledgement of the holistic nature of plant-environmental interactions and the need to integrate research topics that span molecular, cellular, developmental, ecological and global scales. The program will focus on salinity and other water-associated stresses, and will now also include pioneering work that examines the interface between these stresses and the biotic realm. Presentations will highlight the power of model systems, tackle evolutionary questions spanning species boundaries, and examine the nexus between basic and applied research using globally relevant crops. Through this interdisciplinary forum, we hope to pool together researchers that are answering the most compelling scientific questions with the broadest impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.grc.org/salt-and-water-stress-in-plants-conference/2022/

Description	Presentation 'Experimental evolution of fungicide resistance' by Dr. Nichola Hawkins
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation as part of the European Zymoseptoria tritici community meeting (Kiel, Germany)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Presentation / discussion to delegation from Brazilian Embassy
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The presentation highlighted our research focus and collaboration we have with Brazil
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation at CHAP weeds workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Paul Neve presented a summary of applied, strategic and fundamental research needs for weed biology and control
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation at ISCE Annual Meeting, Budapest
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation given by Jozsef Vuts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation at KNUST, Ghana
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	2 Seminars given - 1 by Mike Birkett, 1 by Jozsef Vuts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation at Resistance 2019 Conference at Rothamsted Research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	David Comont presentation entitled "Herbicide diversity and the evolution of generalist herbicide resistance traits in Alopecurus myosuroides"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/resistance19

Description	Presentation at Resistance 2019 conference, Rothamsted Research, UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Resistance 2019 conference, Rothamsted Research, UK "Optimal insecticide resistance management strategies: mixtures or alternations?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation at Royal Entomological Society Meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Presentation given on Field Diagnostics of Oak Declines
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation at Syngenta for Biological Sciences & Product Safety External Collaboration Review Event
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Invited to speak at and participate in the Biological Sciences & Product Safety External Collaboration Review Event at Jeallots Hill Syngenta. Discussion with industrial collaborators and the other invited speakers generated ideas that could be followed up as well as I presented the work I am doing to generate genomic and genetic tools for weeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Presentation at a workshop (companion plants and their semiochemicals for pest control in agriculture' hosted by Embrapa Cenargen Brasilia.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave a presentation on my research in this area. Was part of discussion on how to take our research forward / commercialisation
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation at the Embassy of Argentina, 'Agroindustry in Argentina'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The purpose of the meeting was to encourage collaborations between UK/Argentina academic institutes and industrial organisations. The presentation highlighted my research, future application of this research to the wider agricultural/academic audience and how this would be a benefit to the UK/Argentina agricultural-sector and economy. This lead to discussions on how and where this technology could be used and linking this to industrial and academic partners in Argentina.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation at the international workshop for chemical ecology, Embrapa Southeast Livestock, Sao Carlos Brazil
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave an overview of the current RRes Chemical Ecology research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation on 'The Future of Crop protection' at SCI agriscience meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Provided a section seminar at the SCI Agriscience committee meeting on the future of crop protection globally.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Presentation to Australian Minister of Agriculture and National Farmers' Federation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	I gave a presentation detailing Farmer involvement in research projects to develop ecological approaches to pest management in oilseed rape
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation to farmers at Indigro Academy day (David Comont)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	David Comont presented an update to 30 farmers on Rothamsted's research on the current UK status of herbicide resistant blackgrass.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Presentation to the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Agrisciences group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation to the SCI Agrisciences committee highlighting the research and future applications of the research to the wider agricultural community. The audience consisted of industrial representatives (multinational to SMEs), academic representatives, agricultural practitioners, postgraduate students and members of the general public. The presentation lead to discussions between the different representatives regarding the use of such technologies / research and the potential impact on the future of agriculture. There was a general agreement from the various representatives that the research presented would have a significant impact on future agricultural systems.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Press Release - NEW INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP TO COMBAT WEEDS
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	This press release was coordinated to be adapted and advertised from the partners associated with the International Weed Genomics Consortium (IWGC). This was to advertise the IWGC's official launch and to celebrate the match funding award from USDA funding via Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR). Each of the various partners had their own press release and therefore reach and scope was substantial. It begins... "Every farmer and gardener knows that weeds are a constant, formidable foe of successful plant production. Across the globe, weed management demands billions of pounds in annual herbicidal treatments, or soil-damaging tillage of fields so crops can grow. Now an international group of scientists and industry professionals, including Rothamsted Research, have launched an ambitious new project aimed at improved management of the most intractable species of weeds in the world. Led by Colorado State University (CSU), The International Weed Genomics Consortium comprises 17 academic partners across seven countries and will develop genomic tools that fundamentally advance humanity's approach to weeds and crops. The $3 million (GBP£2.2m) consortium is supported by $1.5 million (GBP £1m) in industry sponsorships and matching funds from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), a research and funding organization established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ..."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/new-international-partnership-combat-weeds

Description	Press release and interview Farming Today on neonicotionoids
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Recorded interview for Radio 4
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Press release on PHI-base update article Urban et al. Nucleic Acids Research article (Nov 2019)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	This press release highlighted the increasing number of PHI-base entries that have recorded an increase in virulence (hypervirulence) phenotype as a result of a deliberate single gene change, typically a gene deletion or point mutation in pathogenic species that infect either plants, animal or human hosts. Collectively, these results highlight that the pathogenic process is controlled by an increasing diversity of negative feedback loops that can be altered through mutation and result in viable new strains that can cause increased disease symptoms and / or in host pathogen burden.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/gene-data-suggests-superbug-threat-underestimated

Description	Press release on how variability in the demand for planting material from tree nurseries affects the probability of disease introduction
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	We published the paper "Variability in the demand for planting material from tree nurseries affects the probability to introduce exotic forest diseases" in the Journal of Applied Ecology. As a result of this we released a press release at Rothamsted (https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/model-way-protect-trees) to engage the public with our results.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Primary school teaching. 30th June 2017, St Helens Primary school, Wheathamsted.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Two science lessons to two primary school classes (year 2, ages 6-7 years old). The sessions involved delivery of an interactive presentation and quiz, aimed at introducing the children to the importance of bees and what they can do to help them. Followed by a "make your own bee hotel" activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Quote for Scientific American on recent publications
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	I was approached by Monique Brouillette for outside comment on the significance of this new paper that shows microscopic wrinkles in the leaf cuticle are a means of plant defense against insect predation. She used my quote in the final article - link below
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microscopic-wrinkles-in-leaves-ward-off-insects/

Description	Radio 4 Farming Today article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Jon West recorded an interview with Charlotte Smith from BBC Radio 4 Farming Today, explaining work on automated spore traps for disease forecasting. The article aired on Farming Today 30 Aug 2018, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgbhb7
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Radio interview on how variability in the demand for planting material from tree nurseries affects the probability of introducing exotic forest diseases
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Following our press release on "Variability in the demand for planting material from tree nurseries affects the probability to introduce exotic forest diseases" Dr Alonso Chavez was invited to give a radio interview about the significance of her work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Radlett U3A presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on pesticides and alternatives
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Rothamsted Festival of Ideas
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on pesticides during the Rothamsted Festival of Ideas
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Rothamsted Festival of Ideas
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The Festival of Ideas, held on the 23-24 June 2018 was designed to showcase Rothamsted Research and the work that we do here to the local public in celebration of our 175 years of continuous experimentation. I helped design and man the stand illustrating our Black-grass research during the weekend. During this time, we engaged with the general public and other members of the institute, describing our research, its impacts, and implications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/events/rothamsted-festival-ideas

Description	Rothamsted Festival of Ideas
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	In addition to talks and presentations from SCP staff, the work from this programme was presented and discussed with the public over four days at 7 different stalls: 1. Tree of Trade-offs: Balancing the pros and cons, what would you like the future of British agriculture to look like? • More food, greener pastures • healthy diets, cheap produce • profitable farming Explore the issues, and hang a leaf on our tree of trade-offs to air your view. 2. Gene Hunters: THE ASSEMBLATHON: two minutes to build a genome, and one that resists disease and provides bigger and better crops. ENTER THE MATRIX: discover how networks of knowledge provide clues about unknown genes, and explore pathways between data. PHYLO: match DNA blocks correctly for the top score, as scientists use matching gene sequences to identify species. 3. Scents and Sensibility: Organisms use chemical signals to communicate with each other. • crop and livestock pests produce scents • learn how we decode these signals • develop new ways to control pests • and apply that knowledge in the field Natural scents can reduce our reliance on synthetic pesticides. 4. Air Detectives: Find out what is in the air around you... and come and see if you are able to match the image to the name. • spores in the air cause plant disease • see how we capture those spores • be amazed by our new automatic trap Enjoy a brief history of "aerobiology", and how Rothamsted helped to develop the field. 5. Combating the Super Pests: An evolutionary arms race is pitting us against the organisms that threaten our food crops. • insects, pathogens and weeds • they all adapt to evade our control • hear how we are tackling resistance Discover more about the super-pests that threaten global food security 6. Cereal Killers: Find out how fungi infect plants, and watch them taking over through our binocular microscope. • infect a plant with your favourite killer • test your knowledge against our quiz • and enjoy a tasty edible fungi as a prize Learn about the difference between good and bad fungi, and the role of bacteria. 7. Insect Friends with benefits: Bees and ladybirds are heroes but many other insects also pollinate crops and eat pests. • flights in the "bumble-arium" • lasers to detect friend or foe It's not all about field margins; gather ideas to benefit insects in your garden.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2018%20Rothamsted%20Festival%20Evaluation%20Report%...

Description	Rothamsted PhD Student Symposium
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	This annual event is held at Rothamsted Research, typically over two or three days, and aims to showcase the Post-graduate Student's research in a conference-style environment. The programme highlights post-graduate projects ongoing in the Institute and the associated Universities. As a member of the Post-Graduate Committee, I was involved peripherally in organising, evaluating and attending the event.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018,2020,2021,2022

Description	Rothamsted PhD Student Symposium
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Held on the 21-22nd of November 2018 at Rothamsted Research, this Student Symposium was aimed at showcasing the work that our PhD students are doing. They presented their work through posters and presentations - which were then assessed. I participated in this assessment programme as well as attending many of the talks and poster sessions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Rothamsted Press Release GENE BREAKTHROUGH IN FIGHT AGAINST WEEDS
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Rothamsted's Press release on our recently published paper in Plant Physiology A team of scientists from Rothamsted Research have successfully adapted genetic techniques developed for crop improvement to be used in weeds - allowing them, for the first time, to directly study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Writing in the journal Plant Physiology, the group report they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory. This means that these researchers can now directly show that a specific gene is required for herbicide resistance, or else is sufficient to confer it. Lead researcher Dr Dana MacGregor said the research was a 'game-changer' for weed genetics. Her latest study focuses on blackgrass, a major weed of cereals and a previous joint study involving Rothamsted, showed that herbicide resistant black-grass could cost £1 billion every year in the UK alone. Whilst researchers have previously identified genes that are over-represented in black-grass populations with herbicide resistance, there has been no way of genetically manipulating the weeds.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/gene-breakthrough-fight-against-weeds

Description	Rothamsted student Instagram and twitter accounts
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Each week we feature a different PhD student and their work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2018

Description	Rothamsted visit to NRI University of Greenwich
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The purpose of the visit was to explore long term collaborative research areas and immediate areas where we can combine our unique expertise and knowledge. The programme included meetings with the NRI senior management team and discussions with several groups / departments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Rothamsted's "Meet the Scientists"
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	For British Science Week 4th-14th March 2021, Rothamsted established socially distant, covid-safe engagement activities including a "science trail" around the footpaths on the Harpenden site for local families and schools to use. The trail was a semi-permanent feature with leaflets at the Restaurant all year around. For British Science Week there was a "meet our scientists" element where posters introducing scientist along with QR codes to online content were created and installed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Rothamsted-Syngenta lean innovation in Agri-Tech meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	The activity was organised to discuss potential areas of collaboration between Rothamsted and Syngenta. Emerging areas of interest and discussion included control of herbicide resistant weeds, soil-borne pests and changing and influencing farmer behaviour.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Royal Entomological Society Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	As the convenor of the Royal Entomological Society Insect Behaviour Special Interest Group, I organised an online conference together with Dr Michelle Fountain at NIAB EMR. The meeting was truly international and sparked very productive discussions. We will organise another meeting in 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.royensoc.co.uk/special-interest-groups/behaviour

Description	Royal Entomological Society Newsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Featured Research: Leaf volatile patterns of oak decline problems: opportunities for control via chemical ecology, in Royal Entomological Society SIG Newsletter, Forest Insects and their Allies, October 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Royal Society of Biology Bioscience Careers Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Laura Crook was invited to sit on a panel for a discussion about her career as a technician and also gave a talk on doing fieldwork.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.rsb.org.uk/news/news-archive/14-news/1862-rsb-bioscience-careers-day-attracts-over-400-s...

Description	S Foster, Winter oilseed rape without neonicotinoids. The Rural Economy and Agricultural Societies Conference. Linköping. Sweden. February, 2020.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	S Foster, Winter oilseed rape without neonicotinoids. The Rural Economy and Agricultural Societies Conference. Linköping. Sweden. February, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	S Foster. Aphid and BYDV control after neonicotinoids. CAFRE/UAS/UFU 8th Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2020.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	S Foster. Aphid and BYDV control after neonicotinoids. CAFRE/UAS/UFU 8th Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	S Foster. Aphid resistance the UK story and how it relates to Ireland. Plenary Talk at National Crops Forum. Naas, Ireland, September 2019.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	S Foster. Aphid resistance the UK story and how it relates to Ireland. Plenary Talk at National Crops Forum. Naas, Ireland, September 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	S Foster. Update on insecticide resistance in UK pests, including willow-carrot aphids. British Carrot Growers Association R & D Committee Meeting, Newark, November 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk to Carrot Growers and Experts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	SCI Agri-Food Careers event - "Building Sustainable Agri-Food Systems- Webinar"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Sustainability is a key focus globally and is particularly relevant in our time of climate change, growing populations, and the ongoing pandemic. Within agri-food - one key question remains - how can we achieve a secure and nutritionally balanced food supply for all, whilst ensuring future generations can do the same? The production of sustainable agri-food should preserve the environment, human health, animal welfare and profitability. The development of low-input systems and new technologies throughout the supply chain offer hope for the future. This session will briefly explore how we can move towards a more sustainable future for agri-food, drawing on the experiences of our speakers who work in academia, industry, and policy/NGO/start-up.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.soci.org/events/agrisciences-group/2021/building-sustainable-agrifood-systems

Description	STEM activity
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	National Insect Week, 22-26/6/20. Very popular activity, engaging lots of school children with discussing about insect science. I since then have received multiple invitations to participate in similar future activities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	STFC B41 Food Roadshow Knowledge Transfer Network
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended a KTN workshop to develop links with industrial partners working in areas of interest
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Science of Feeding the World Interview
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	02 - Are We Losing The Fight Against Resistance? Welcome back to the second episode of the Science of Feeding the World! This episode is with Dr. Dana MacGregor, who is a weed molecular biologist(no not that kind of weed) at Rothamsted Research. Together with Dana, we navigate the world of resistance finding out what it means and why it matters. Warning: you may find your mind blown and jaw permanently attached to the floor after this episode!
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://scienceftw.users68.interdns.co.uk/2020/02/07/02-are-we-losing-the-fight-against-resistance/

Description	Science of Feeding the World Interview
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	"The Science of Feeding the World (ScienceFTW) is one of Rothamsted three major communication programs. Each program is tailored to target groups from Rothamsteds 14 priority audiences. Science FTW includes four of these audiences (Schools, General Public, Universities, NGOs) and but also has overlap including farmers, influencers and Rres staff. Science FTW activities include face-to-face activities, such as school visits and exhibitions at events such as New Scientist Live. Recently, this has expanded to include episodic online content in the form of the Science FTW podcast. The aim of the podcast is to offer an alternative to our traditional format media content and to deliver our science in an open conversation. Each episode offers a scientist an opportunity to talk about their work in a way that instils passion, awe and responsibility for both food and the planet and raises the profile of agricultural science and awareness of current issues in the public mind in an easily accessible format."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://soundcloud.com/scienceftwpodcast/are-we-losing-the-fight-against-resistance

Description	Seminar and visit: Monsanto, St Louis, USA.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Paul Neve was invited to attend a two-day 'meet and greet' with Monsanto scientists working on herbicide and insecticide resistance evolution. Extensive discussions considered the development and application of modelling tools for predicting optimal management for genetically-modified herbicide resistant crops. In particular, Monsanto scientists were keen to engage in discussions to determine how they might support future funded research at Rothamsted to develop models to explore best resistance management for the deployment of crop varieties with multiple herbicide resistance traits. As part of the visit, Paul Neve gave a research seminar on modelling and epidemiology of herbicide resistance.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Sensor 100 Conference presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Kevin King made a conference presentation (co-authors were: Gail Canning, Agata Kaczmarek & Jon West) on the subject 'Automated detection of plant pathogens in the field - the future of precision agriculture'. This was followed up by a reporter, Eric Smalley, who contacted Jon West for an interview leading to our work being cited in a Nature Biotechnology article.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	http://sensor100.com/S100_Conferences.html

Description	Sherrardspark website
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Material on website describes the field work that was conducted at the site in 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	http://www.sherrardsparkwoodwardens.org.uk/

Description	Short talk at Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/plant-genomes-in-a-changing-environment-virtual-conference-20211018/ Applied for and was awarded a full bursary to attend this event. The increasing availability and improved quality of plant genomic data are helping to tackle global challenges such as food security and environmental change. This conference will showcase the application of genomic techniques and technologies advancing understanding of plant genomes and how they vary across changing environments. The focus of this year's virtual event is the genomics of polyploidy and evolutionary genomics, as well as emerging research tools. How to improve plants for tolerance of biotic and abiotic stresses will be discussed. The conference aims to facilitate knowledge transfer across plant systems of differing ecology, physiology and genomic complexity. The virtual platform will enable researchers from academia and industry to connect. Global participation is encouraged with sessions running in afternoons for Europe and Africa | mornings for the Americas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWBDDWwIGE

Description	Smart Crop Protection: Sensors, diagnostics & modelling of Insect Pests
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Presentation to Syngenta on methods of surveillance of insect pests
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Social Media Video on Acute Oak Decline research in UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Launch of AOD video, 30th November 2017.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajyg9KYBwVA&feature=youtu.be
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	South African delegation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentations to highlight our research areas with a focus on developing international collaborations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Speaker - Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Plant Genomes in a Changing Environment (Virtual Conference) 12 - 14 October 2020 Owing to the ongoing situation with covid-19, this event will be organised as a virtual conference. The meeting will bring together plant scientists working on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, on populations in their natural environment as well as crop species. It will provide a forum to discuss recent advances in plant genome biology aiming at the elucidation of gene function and networks, natural and induced variation and their implications in agricultural breeding programmes. The increasing availability and improved quality of genomic data for crop species as well as natural populations is gradually enabling plant scientists to tackle some of the most critical global challenges such as environmental change and food security. This conference will showcase the application of genomic techniques to understand genomes and how they vary across changing environments. It will provide a platform for the transfer of knowledge of diverse plant systems that differ in their ecology, physiology, genomic complexity and the tools that are available for research and aims to connect researchers from academia and industry. This year's meeting will focus on approaches on how to improve plants for tolerance of abiotic stresses and biotic interaction. It will also discuss strategies for sustaining yield and mechanisms of domestication and adaptation in a changing environment.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://vimeo.com/venueav/download/464885335/0906323ba6

Description	Sreve Foster, L Oliphant & M Williamson. Resistance to the remaining insecticides in UK pests. Crop Protection in Southern Britain, Brighton, November 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Session on UK Farming after the loss of Neonicotinoid seed Treatments on all outdoor crops.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	St Albans Cathedral "Speak Your Mind -Sixth Form Debate"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Total of 7 different schools with over 131 pupils registered for the event. This event comprised individual presentations from Kevin Walton, Acting Dean of St Albans, Quintin McKellar (Vice Chancellor of University of Hertfordshire), environmental and food campaigner William Kendall, and then talks by Patrick Holden, Dana MacGregor and Joseph Powell. The final 30 minutes of the session were open Q&A for the panel. Feedback from schools included: "It was a really interesting debate with a varied set of speakers. Our students found it very interesting and enjoyed being able to ask questions".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	St Albans Girls School - International Womens day Network - Careers in STEM
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	STEM activity
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	St Albans U3A Presentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on pesticides and alternatives
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Stakeholder workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Stakeholder workshop on Oak Declines at Forest Research, March 2018
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Statement in Chemistry World on extension of neonic ban
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Raised awareness of need for pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Cabbage stem flea beetles (NIAB-TAG Agronomy Update, September 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Article in Farming and Popular Press:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Farming without neonicotinoid seed treatments (Bayer Crop Focus Magazine, August 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Article in Farming and Popular Press:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Full ban on Neonicotinoid seed treatments in open field crops: where do we go from here? Bayer Stand at Cereals, June 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Presentation at Bayer stand at Cereals Meeting
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. How will the neonic seed treatment ban affect beet? (Farmers Weekly, June 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Article in Farming Press:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Insecticide resistance in peach-potato aphids (Agricology, March 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	farming Press Article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Interview for Farming Today: BBC Radio 4: Pyrethroid resistance in Cabbage Stem Flea Beetles (September, 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Radio Interview
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Monitoring and managing insecticide resistance in UK pests. AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Monitoring Meeting, Boxworth, March 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Update on Resistance Monitoring Work
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Monitoring and managing insecticide resistance in UK pests. IRAG-UK Meeting, Bracknell, November 2018
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Meeting of IRAG-UK to discuss insecticide resistance issues
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. New insights into insecticide resistance (Crop Production Magazine, April 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Farming Press Article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Overcoming resistance in a post-neonic world (Bayer Website, June 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Website Article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Peach-potato aphid control (Vegetable Year Book, March 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	farming Press Article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Pest control strategies, resistance issues, new actives. Insect Pest Control Review Meeting, NIAB, Cambridge, September 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Review Meeting on insecticide usage and resistance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Resistance is far from futile (The Grower Magazine, June/ July 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	farming Press Article
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. The rise and rise of pyrethroid resistance in UK pests. AICC Conference, Towcester, January 2018.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation to Independent Agronomists
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Tips to manage BYDV in cereals without neonicotinoids (Farmers Weekly, June 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Article in farming Press
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Steve Foster. Virus looms in OSR (Crop Production Magazine, September 2018)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Article in Farming Press:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Syngenta R & D visit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Visit by Syngenta R & D to Rothamsted, 11th September 2017. Gave presentation "Smart Crop Protection: Next Generation Crop Protection".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Syngenta annual joint Biological Sciences & Product Safety External Collaboration Review
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Student presentation won the Best Bioscience presentation prize awarded by Syngenta
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Syngenta/Rothamsted soil science and crop protection meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Discussion and presentations of our crop protection research and how we can start collaborations on delivery of AIs below ground for crop protection
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk at ISPA22 - International Society for Plant Anaerobiosis Conference September 25-29 2022 in Bamberg, Germany.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presented as a talk selected from the abstracts at the annual ISPA conference in Bamberg, Germany. Discussed current project on abiotic stress resilience in blackgrass compared and contrasted against wheat. Approximately 150 people on line and in person attended. Joined the ISPA as outcome and have had several follow up conversations to exchange data, protocols and ideas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022
URL	https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/veranstaltungen/ispa22-anaerobiosis/

Description	Talk at Syngenta's Biological Sciences & Product Safety External Collaboration Review Event 2022
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	I was invited to speak at and participate in the Biological Sciences & Product Safety External Collaboration Review Event at Jeallot's Hill Syngenta campus. I presented my work to generate genetic and genomic tools for weeds. In discussions with Syngenta colleagues as well as other invited speakers and guests, ideas were generated and feedback gained on potential and current projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2022

Description	Talk at an Agricology event
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Laura Crook attended a field day with Agricology on Mixing It Up - Leys, livestock and arable and was asked to give a short talk about how grass leys can be used for black-grass cultural control and some of the research being undertaken at Rothamsted. There were questions and discussion during the event. The talk also received feedback afterwards.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk at the Entomological Society of America annual Entomology meeting 2017 - Exploring Bombus terrestris P450ome: Insights into insecticide metabolism
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk at the Entomological Society of America Annual meeting in Denver, Colorado
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://esa.confex.com/esa/2017/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/126439

Description	Talk at the Royal Entomological Society Ento '17 meeting, 12-14 September 2017 (Entomological Networks: Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk at the Royal Entomological Society Annual Meeting in Newcastle, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Talk in IPM of cabbage stem flea beetle for Farmers - invited by Mid Kent Training
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Training event for farmers on sustainable farming practices. Attended by c. 40 farmers.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Talk to BASE UK Farmers
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Richard Hull gave a talk to farmers group about black-grass and potential for glyphosate resistance in UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Talk to Mackay and Patterson agronomy group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Richard Hull gave a talk to an agronomy group in Essex entitled Current developments for resistance in grass weeds. This focused mainly on glyphosate and flufenacet resistance in black-grass. There was questions, debate and discussion during and after the meeting and a new farm contact was made which will be useful for the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk to Ouse and Cherwell Buying Group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Laura Crook gave a talk to a group of farmers as part of the Ouse & Cherwell Buying Group entitled Battling Black-grass: what tools are available? This presentation discussed current and future research into black-grass at Rothamsted. There was plenty of questions, debate and discussion during and after the meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk to ProCam Agronomists
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Richard Hull and David Comont gave talks on impact of black-grass in UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Talk to U3A
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on use of pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Talk to U3A
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk on use of pesticides
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	Talk to a farmers group
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Richard Hull and Laura Crook gave presentations to a farmers group in Norfolk on the current and future research on black-grass at Rothamsted. There was discussion, debate and questions asked throughout the day.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Talk to crop protection industry
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presenttaion on future of crop protection
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Teaching at University of Nottingham
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Undergraduate lectures
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Teaching for Aulas de Weed Resistance - PPGFS at The Federal University of Pelotas
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	I was invited to give a guest lecture to the Aulas de Weed Resistance post-graduate students comparing tools and techniques that can be used for model organisms to those that are available in weed science.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.facebook.com/ppwithoutborders/

Description	Tech, Climate and Urban Trends that will Transform Cities of the Future, Advisory Board
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Macro trends in technology, emerging markets and climate change are changing how cities evolve. What regions will be the earliest adopters of new city planning practices? How will urbanization and climate change impact different regions of the world?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Technology Networks Coverage of Mellado-Sanchez et al., 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Tool To Study Genes Responsible for Herbicide Resistance NEWS Apr 08, 2020 | Original story from Rothamsted Research Tool To Study Genes Responsible for Herbicide Resistance Credit: Jake Gard on Unsplash. Read Time: 3 min A team of scientists from Rothamsted Research have successfully adapted genetic techniques developed for crop improvement to be used in weeds - allowing them, for the first time, to directly study the genetics responsible for herbicide resistance. Since the invention of weed killers, farmers have been caught in a never-ending arms race with weeds - from the moment of first spraying weeds start to develop resistance to the chemicals - and year on year, the armoury is shrinking. Writing in the journal Plant Physiology, the group report they have used plant viruses to switch weed genes off, or alternatively, ramp up the production of specific proteins by weeds in the laboratory. This means that these researchers can now directly show that a specific gene is required for herbicide resistance, or else is sufficient to confer it.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/tools-to-study-genes-responsible-for-herbicide-resistance...

Description	Tenant Research Day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Attended presentations of 10 agriscience SME companies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	The International Weed Genomics Consortium: how you can contribute and what it can do for you. at Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The International Weed Genomics Consortium (IWGC) represents the community of scientists from academia and industry with interests in the genomics of weedy plant species. Since the natural and anthropogenic selection pressures that drive weed evolution are unique, weeds have genomes that are different from model, crop or wild plant species. We not only recognize that our knowledge of weed genomes lags significantly behind other plant species, but that this lack is more than just a knowledge gap, it is a major obstacle to our understanding these globally problematic plant species that hinder the Bioeconomy. To address this, the IWGC enables public-private research that generates weed-specific genomic resources and training partnerships that create a workforce able to analyze these and implement the innovations generated from them. The IWGC PB21 workshop will 1) highlight current advances in Weed Genomics Science, 2) demonstrate our analytical and training resources, and 3) advertise IWGC opportunities for personal development within weed genomics. During the 1.5-hour slot we will update the diverse PB21 audience on the current state of Weed Genomics and engage in both co-development and sharing of best practice. More specifically, we will 1) highlight how the IWGC's innovations and technical developments in sequencing and annotation can provide a mechanistic understanding of how weeds impact the agri-environment (e.g. Kochia scoparia's rapid evolution of resistance to glyphosate in response to high levels of environmental stress), 2) showcase the user-friendly databases and training material the IWGC are developing (e.g. the functionalities of our first main training resource, the WeedPedia website, which is a home for weed genomics resources, tools, and networking) and 3) discuss how the IWGC are upskilling and attracting new talent through a range of learning and career possibilities in Weed Genomics. Recruitment and upskilling are fundamental to IWGC's purpose and are supported by dedicated funding that for instance, enables Student Research Experience Visits to IWGC academic and industry labs. The details for this and other efforts to expand the diverse and inclusive community of scientists in weed genomics will be explained further at PB21. Our IWGC PB21 workshop will not be one-directional knowledge transfer. Instead, IWGC will engage and interact with a wide range of scientists, students to established genomicists, from outside of our predictable weed-centric research communities. We will actively recruit participants and presenters from across disciplines and career stages to this workshop. Although our weed-focused questions are different from crop, model or wild plant research, we can learn from others' triumphs and tribulations and share our own. We predict this workshop will provide mutual benefit for the PB21 audience and the IWGC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/ASPB/fsPopup.asp?PresentationID=898685&query=Genomics+Consortium&Mo...

Description	The Times and Democrat covers New Phytologist Blackgrass Genome Paper
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	https://thetandd.com/business/agriculture/herbicide-resistance-research-finds-evolution-plays-role-in-weed-fight/article_d4fdeaa0-ead5-58f6-add9-4d1c75d30134.html Public media coverage highlighting the work published in New Phytologist in our 2023 paper "The blackgrass genome reveals patterns of non-parallel evolution of polygenic herbicide resistance" https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18655 written by DENISE ATTAWAY at Clemson University.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2023
URL	https://thetandd.com/business/agriculture/herbicide-resistance-research-finds-evolution-plays-role-i...

Description	The Weed Science Society of America Annual meeting - Symposium "Genomics of Weedy and Invasive Species-2025 and Beyond" - Invited Speaker
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	I was invited to speak at the Weed Science Society of America Annual meeting in the Symposium entitled "Genomics of Weedy and Invasive Species-2025 and Beyond". The event was held at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa, Hawaii USA. 2-5 March 2020. My talk was entitled "New tools to understand and manipulate Black-grass." More details about the conference and symposium can be found at http://wssa.net/meeting/2020-annual-meeting/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	http://wssa.net/meeting/2020-annual-meeting/

Description	The marvellous physics of insect swarms
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The researchers trained their cameras on the swarms and discovered that, like starlings in a flock, midges in a swarm are collectively correlated.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/science/physics-midges-starlings-swarm.html

Description	The rise and rise of pyrethroid resistance in UK pests, Dr Steve Foster, NFU Resistance Management Workshop, Stoneleigh, October 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Update on current status of pyrethroid resistance in UK pests
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	The spatial and temporal genetic structure of Rhopalosiphum padi in the UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussed with colleagues about the contents of the poster and the science we carry out at the insect Survey
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.eseb2017.nl/

Description	Things I Should Know Seminars at Rothamsted Research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The "Things I Should Know" seminar series is a monthly 1-2 hour discussion session where the aim is to provide guidance on techniques and skills that are necessary to succeed in science but more often than not, are never explicitly taught. All Rothamsted staff are welcome to attend but mostly it is the PhD students and Early Career Researchers that attend. The topics are decided by a recognized need or popular vote, and other experts have been invited to cover topics when needed. Although informal, these seminars are formally recognized by Rothamsted's Post-Graduate Committee and count toward the PhD students' training credits required for the doctoral training programmes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019,2020,2021,2022
URL	https://tinyurl.com/TISK-RRes

Description	Two Poster presentations given at 12th International Biocuration Conference, Cambridge, 7th-10th April 2019 on PHI-base and PHI-Canto given by Alayne Cuzick
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Two poster presentations were given to highlight the PHI-base resource and recent ontology developments to the international community. ? PHI-base: Capturing phenotypes for inclusion in a multi-species interaction database (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1116618.1) ? PHI-Canto: Introducing the concept of the metagenotype to curate information on multi-species interactions (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1116619.1 )
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1116619.1

Description	U3A
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation on Rothamsted chemical ecology work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	UKRI-UP-SIGN GCRF workshop 30th April & 1st May 2019, Swansea University
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The event was a workshop to connect potential UK and Pakistan collaborators and to plan consortia for future GCRF funding calls
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Upsign Pakistan-food-security-challenge-threats-from-pests-diseases workshop 25 June 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Jon West made a 15 minute presentation on Improving Crop Protection, Food Security and Food Safety at an online workshop
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pakistans-food-security-challenge-threats-from-pests-diseases-tickets-1...

Description	Visit by Bayer Distributors to Rothamsted; presentation given
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Visit by Bayer French distributors to Rothamsted, 16th June 2017. Presentation given "Smart/sentinel signalling for recruitment of beneficials"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Visit by local Conservative MP Bim Afolami
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Visit by local MP to promote Rothamsted activities - met with student in the group to discuss her project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/bim-afolami-%E2%80%9Cabsolutely-full-throated%E2%80%9D-support-rot...

Description	Visit by students from Landwirtschaftsschule Bredstedt, Germany
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Tour of Broadbalk experiment followed by talks about SCP programme and impact of black-grass in UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Visit by students from Royal Holloway College
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	A talk: Insects as pests - as seen through the eyes of the Rothamsted Insect Survey and tour of the traps.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Visit from researchers from Nanjing Agricultural University, Hennan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Ministry of Agricultural
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	To learn more about the Insect Survey.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Visit of Embrapa Soybean in Londrina (Brazil) March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation of research conducted at Rothamsted Research. Information on fungicide resistance research on the most important foliar wheat pathogen in the UK (Zymoseptoria tritici causing Septoria leaf blotch). How to monitor fungicide resistance (tools and methods), future predictions regarding evolution and how to deal with it. This information can also be used for fungicide resistance management in Asian Soybean Rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) in Brazil.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Visit of Syngenta Research Station (Syngenta Proteção de Cultivos Ltda), Uberlândia City, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Exchange of tools, methods and ideas on fungicide applications, resistance development and wider integrated disease management on soybean rust and other soybean pathogens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Visit to Rothamsted by Royal Holloway entomology students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	Tour of the Rothamsted Insectary and question/answer session
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	WSSA/ WSWS Joint Meeting 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	2020 Annual Meeting The 2020 annual meeting of the Weed Science Society of America will be held Mar 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa, Hawaii. For specific questions about the 2020 meeting, please e-mail eric@imigroup.org.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017,2020
URL	https://wssa.net/meeting/2020-annual-meeting/

Description	Webinar on Smart Crop Protection
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Webinar for growers and agri-business
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021

Description	Weed Resistance Action Group meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	Annual meeting of the Weed Resistance Action Group with major discussion relating to glyphosate use and registration, potential for glyphosate resistance and herbicide resistance testing and diagnostics (attended by Richard Hull as secretary)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://cereals.ahdb.org.uk/wrag

Description	Where have all the insects gone?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Contribution to the debate on insect decline as published in the prestigious journal Science as an article and led by Gretchen Vogel and titled "Where have all the insects gone?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone

Description	Wildlife Festival 29th-30th July 2017, Panshanger Park, Hertfordshire
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The Festival celebrates the rich diversity of wildlife in Hertfordshire and Middlesex
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.hertswildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2017/07/29/festival-wildlife

Description	Work Experience students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Work experience day for GCSE and A level students from local schools
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/work-experience

Description	Workshop with Designing Future Wheat
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Attended workshop with Designing Future Wheat ISP at Rothamsted Research to discuss areas of collaboration.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	World Mycotoxin Forum, Amsterdam 12-14 March (invited presentation).
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation on near real-time detection f pathogen spores for disease risk alerts
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://worldmycotoxinforum.org/media/brochure%20WMF2018.pdf

Description	Youth Ag summit Brussels 2017
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	The Summit is a unique event which brings together talented young minds to explore and discuss solutions on global food challenges.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/articles/hungry-change-world

Description	presentation about research findings
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	- Presentation on integrated resistance management to FRAG-UK, 9 November 2017
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	presentation of research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Industry/Business
Results and Impact	- Presentation on the economics of fungicide resistance to FRCAG-UK, 9 November 2017.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	report of research findings
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Meeting with CRD about insecticide resistance management.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	seminar at Embrapa Instrumentation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Gave a seminar on my current research areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	• 22/Jun/2021. Invited seminar: Halting crop disease epidemics before they start. University of Hertfordshire, School of Life & Medical Sciences, Virtual Research Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	22/Jun/2021. Invited seminar: Halting crop disease epidemics before they start. University of Hertfordshire, School of Life & Medical Sciences, Virtual Research Conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021