Birmingham based projects

Principal Supervisor	Project title
Dr Philippa Borrill	Improving drought tolerance in wheat: is delayed senescence the answer?
Dr Florian Busch	Quantifying the impact of photorespiration on the photosynthetic carbon uptake of plants
Dr Marco Catoni	Epigenetics contribution to plant genome evolution
Dr Lindsey Compton	Understanding genetic mechanisms of complex agricultural traits for improving potato Solanum tuberosum breeding
Dr Paco Fernandez-Trillo	Nucleic acid delivery to plants. Towards improved protection and development of crops
Dr Graeme Kettles	Understanding the languages of plant-microbe combat
Dr Megan McDonald	Chromosomal plasticity and horizontal gene transfer in plant pathogenic fungi

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Harper Adams based projects

Principal Supervisor	Project title
Professor Dawn Arnold	Effector gene persistence in bacterial plant pathogens
Dr Matthew Back	Development of a sustainable trap cropping approach for the management of potato cyst nematode (Globodera spp.) infestations
Dr Andrew Beacham	Investigating Host Defence Priming Against Crop Pests Using a Bacteria-Based Effector Delivery System
Dr Andrew Beacham	Combining Biotic and Abiotic Stress; Investigating the Importance of Host Genotype and Influence on Integrated Pest Management
Professor Peter Kettlewell	Does heat stress modify the physiological and molecular responses of droughted wheat to film antitranspirant?
Dr Laura Vickers	Impacts of combined salinity and drought stress on plant physiological responses

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Leicester based projects

Principal Supervisor	Project title
Dr James Higgins	Enhancing meiotic recombination in wheat by modulating RECQ helicases
Professor David Twell	Plant and crop fertility: the evolution and impact of gene control networks

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Warwick based projects

Principal Supervisor	Project title
Professor Gary Bending	Unravelling the global microbiome of crop plants to improve sustainability and food security
Professor Gary Bending	Resilience of soil surface microbial communities and their ecosystem functions to extreme weather
Professor Steven Brown	Analysis of Lignin Interactions and Breakdown in Plant Cell Walls by Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: Towards More Efficient Biomass Pathways
Dr David Chandler	Developing a sustainable management system for the diamondback moth, a globally important crop pest
Professor Lorenzo Frigerio	Targeting the Arms Factory: The emerging role of the endoplasmic reticulum in plant immunity
Professor Murray Grant	Biofortify our bananas
Professor Jose Gutierrez Marcos	How do nematodes hijack root development in plants?
Professor Jose Gutierrez Marcos	Targeted engineering of quantitative traits in plants
Professor Jose Gutierrez Marcos	Uncovering the molecular basis of cellular memory in plants
Dr Rob Lillywhite	The impact of sustainable diets on the future health of children in the UK
Dr Ryan Mushinski	Microbial Biogeochemistry of Pollutant Nitrogen Oxides
Professor Richard Napier	The proteins of auxin signalling
Dr Corinne Smith	High resolution cryo-electron microscopy of clathrin cage networks

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Aston based projects

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