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A sustainable future for Scottish barley

James Hutton Institute researchers produced a podcast summarising the key messages from an event (held in February 2020) funded by SEFARI and SSCR where stakeholders in the barley industry were invited to learn about and discuss barley research. The aim was to understand the main issues that industry stakeholders face, particularly in terms of priorities for future sustainability of the industry, and to explore how barley research can address these needs.

Francois Dussart

Research interests

Fungal genetics
Fungal biology
Secondary metabolism
Host-pathogen interactions
Cell and molecular biology

Francois Dussart

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Arboretum Pl

Edinburgh

EH3 5NZ

Dr Petra Boevink

The focus of my research is the cell biology of plant-pathogen interactions, in particular between the notorious oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of the devastating potato late blight, and its hosts. This pathogen manipulates plant defence responses on multiple levels, suggesting complex exchanges of signals between host and pathogen and a variety of effector functions.

Petra Boevink

Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Dr Sue Jones

Senior computational biologist with research interests in the development and application of computational methods for virus diagnostics, functional genomics, transcription regulation and protein-nucleic-acid interactions.

Sue Jones

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Dr Paul Shaw

Paul Shaw

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Professor Marie Haskell

Using animal behaviour to assess welfare is a major research area. We are interested in how to assess fear and aggression in groups of dairy cattle. This work is being extended to exploring new methods of detecting welfare issues, such as via the use of thermal imaging to detect health issues, and via imaging techniques to assess animal emotional state.

Animal welfare is also affected by environment. I am interested in how management systems for cattle, such as continuous housing, or organic management affects welfare and health.

Marie Haskell

Animal & Veterinary Sciences, SRUC,

Roslin Institute Building, Easter Bush,

Midlothian EH25 9RG

Professor Adrian Newton

Adrian Newton is a cereal pathologist by training but his current research spans broader aspects of arable crops in the context of integrated crop management. Adrian’s research interests in cereal pathogens continue, including Ramularia collo-cygni (Ramularia Leaf Spot). The crop diversity interest has taken more of an ecological focus working with Hutton colleagues and others, and has encompassed intercropping, especially cereal-legume combinations for both biomass (wholecrop) and grain.

Adrian Newton

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Gaynor Malloch

Gaynor Malloch is a Research Scientist collaborating in studying pest arthropod biology on an international and national scale.

Current research interests include: The Scottish Myzus persicae population is being studied using molecular markers to define clones and superclones. The work has already demonstrated a severe genetic bottleneck with less than 20 major clones in the UK. Genotyping identifies several aphid properties including the presence of insecticide resistance mechanisms, host plant preferences and biological properties such as reproductive potential.

Gaynor Malloch

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

Professor Jos Houdijk

Animal nutritionist with an interest in nutritional sensitivity of animal production, health, disease and environmental footprint. Research areas include:

plant based parasite control strategies
nutritional sensitivity of periparturient immunity to parasites
animal health and climate change
feedstuff evaluation for pigs and sheep
environmental change impacts on ovine parasitism
gut microbiota and enteric health in weaned pigs

Jos Houdijk

Animal & Veterinary Sciences,

SRUC, Roslin Institute Building,

Easter Bush,

Midlothian

EH25 9RG

Dr Peter Skelsey

Peter Skelsey

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

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