Resources for Disease Management
The Warwick Crop Centre has ideal facilities for studying plant diseases.
Our facilities include:
- Clubroot infected site
- Allium White Rot infected site
- Fusarium oxysporum infected sites (onion, lettuce)
- Sclerotinia infected site
- Cavity spot infected site
- Containment facilities for work on plant viruses
- Assistance with experimental design and data analysis
- Molecular biology laboratories
- Range of glasshouses, polytunnels and tygan houses
If you are interested in accessing our facilities please contact Sally.Mann@warwick.ac.uk
Research expertise:
John Clarkson - Soilborne plant diseases (particularly Sclerotinia / Fusarium), plant pathogen biology, epidemiology, diagnostics and genomics, plant disease forecasting, biological control, plant resistance.
Eric Holub - Plant-microbe interactions.
John Walsh - Plant-virus interactions (particularly Turnip Mosaic virus), plant virus diversity, understanding virus-virus interactions in plants.
Find out about our Disease Research
If you are interested in working with us please contact Rosemary.Collier@warwick.ac.uk