Neil Havis
0131 535 4136
Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG
Biography
Neil is Crop Protection Team Leader, wtih research interests in:
- Epidemiology, life cycle and control of Ramularia leaf spot in barley.
- Managing cereal and oilseed crops using Integrated Pest Management (including biopesticides and elicitors).
- Developing new risk forecasts for fungal pathogens and incorporating into disease control progammes.
- Developing new diagnostic assays for fungal pathogens.
- Monitoring the development of reduced sensitivity to fungicides in fungal pathogens.
- Monitoring the ear blight species complex in cereal crops and potential mycotoxin threat.
- Control of late blight fungus in potatoes.
Leading Ideas
Pest Control and Management
Area of Strategic Research Programme
Further information the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme is available
Theme 2: Productive and sustainable land management and Rural Economies
2.1 - Crop and Grassland Production and Disease Control
2.1.3 Plant-pest interactions
2.1.4 Plant pest epidemiology
2.1.5 In-field detection
2.1.6 Integrated pest management