Nick Taylor
- PhD Student
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Research theme: Bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food
I’m a final year BBSRC DTP student and I’m studying septoria, a fungal disease of wheat. My work used simulations to evaluate the expected effectiveness of different disease management strategies, in particular with respect to managing so-called fungicide resistance (a phenomenon where the pathogen evolves such that treatments designed to kill the pathogen become no longer effective).
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Project Title:
Optimising fungicide resistance management strategies
Project Summary:
Fungal crop diseases are capable of mutations which lead to disease treatments failing - fungicide resistance. One way of delaying fungicide resistance is to use mixtures of fungicides, so that multiple mutations are required before the mixture is completely ineffective. I use mathematical modelling and simulations to explore optimal resistance management strategies, primarily focussing on mixtures as a resistance strategy and using Septoria of winter wheat as a case study.
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