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
Susana Silvestre
Plant Metabolic Engineer
Plant Sciences for the Bioeconomy
PUBLICATIONS
Email
susana.silvestre@rothamsted.ac.ukLinkedIn
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Tel
+44 (0) 1582 938 758
Professional Platforms
ResearchGate
Biography
Susana is interested in plant lipids, cold stress, and plant stress physiology. Her expertise is in plant physiology techniques, specifically chlorophyll a fluorescence, photosynthesis, ion leakage, basic molecular experience (PCR, RT-qPCR, DNA and RNA extraction), and Arabidopsis transformation by floral dip.
PhD Projects
- Securing seed oil synthesis: what can we learn from the extremities?
Awards
- 2011 - Master of Cell Biology and Biotechnology, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- 2009 - Bachelor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal