The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
Science
Fareed Bhatti
PLANT PATHOLOGY; PhD STUDENT
Protecting Crops and the Environment
Biography
Fareed is working on the cereal eyespot disease of winter wheat and barley. This project seeks to achieve improved management of cereal eyespot by investigating key knowledge gaps in this pathosystem. Fareed will be looking at the historical long-term eyespot pathogen population dynamics; current roles of the air and soil as sources of eyespot pathogen inoculum and future eyespot disease management: genomics and chemical control.
Awards
- 2019 - BSc (Hons) Biology, Royal Holloway University of London
- 2021 - MSc in Biological Sciences by Research, Royal Holloway University of London