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
Luca Steel
PHD STUDENT
Protecting Crops and the Environment
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Email
luca.steel@rothamsted.ac.ukTwitter
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
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Biography
Luca is a PhD student interested in the interactions between fungal pathogens and wheat. She graduated from the University of Bath in 2019 with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Biology. During her undergraduate degree she spent a year in Neil Brown's lab, investigating nutrient sensing in the cereal pathogen Fusarium graminearum. She is currently a BBSRC-funded University of Nottingham DTP student based at Rothamsted Research. During her three rotation projects she is investigating: effector protein expression in Zymoseptoria tritici; interactions between the wheat microbiome and Z. tritici; and F. graminearum genes required for disease.
Awards
- 2019: Biology BSc (Hons), University of Bath