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Reviewing Ecological Focus Areas: A Cross Pollination of Ideas

Introduction

Protecting Potatoes - Scotland's Story

Since the emergence of late blight (Phytophthora infestans) in the 1840s this disease has presented a major challenge to the potato industry, with annual losses estimated to be £55 million in the UK.

Mrs Gaynor McKenzie

My current role involves the curation of the Commonwealth Potato Collection, I am the potato glasshouse and germplasm manager. The commonwealth potato collection comprises of around 1524 seed-based accessions of tuber-bearing Solanum accessions representing over 90 different potato species (https://ics.hutton.ac.uk/germinate-cpc/#home).

Gaynor McKenzie

James Hutton Institute

Errol Road

Dundee

Scotland

DD2 5DA

Dr Max Coleman

My current role involves facilitating public engagement with RBGE science in an informal educational context through a variety methods including: events, exhibitions, digital and community outreach.

A focus on food and crop plants has proved to be an effective public engagement hook that leads into topical issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change and making agriculture more sustainable.

Max Coleman

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Arboretum Pl

Edinburgh

EH3 5NZ

Practical Intercropping

‘Plant Teams’ on Lismore - Sharing Knowledge Whatever the Weather!

A visit to the island of Lismore on a midsummer weekend sounded idyllic to a group of researchers from the James Hutton Institute and SRUC.

Kate Lamont

Research interests

Behaviour change
Prevention & management of animal disease
Public health
Rural health & wellbeing
ICT
Web science
eHealth
mHealth
Mental health
Health services
Prevention & self-management
Older people
Social enterprises & volunteering

Kate Lamont

SRUC Epidemiology Research Unit
An Lòchran
Inverness Campus
Inverness IV2 5NA

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

Hemp’s role in diet biodiversification and reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Hemp could play a role in the development and expansion of a low carbon, environmentally responsible industry, bringing a new ‘cash-crop’ to Scottish agriculture and offering new job opportunities across the supply chain. This type of low carbon innovation is currently supported by the Scottish Government in the public sector (i.e.

Dr Sarah Buckingham

Research Interests

Land management effects on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils
Mitigation techniques to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
IPCC and LULUCF inventory reporting of greenhouse gases from UK agriculture
Systematic literature reviewing, meta-analysis, and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon

Sarah Buckingham

Scotland’s Rural College

Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings

West Mains Road

Edinburgh

EH9 3JG

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