NIAB is looking to recruit Field Trials Technicians, to work in plantvariety trials. The roles will involve sample collection, measuringplant characteristics in the field and via image analysis, and a rangeof other practical tasks (from late March to the end of August 2019).
Deadline: 22 feb...
A postdoctoral position in molecular genetics of resistance to late blight in Solanum americanum, a wild potato relative is available at the Laboratory of Prof. Jonathan Jones at the Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) with the goal of cloning two blight resistance genes from Solanum americanum....
New Phytopathology focus issue addresses the increasingly global threat of Xylella fastidiosa. Review articles open access for a limited time!
https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/toc/phyto/109/2
A PhD position in "Fungal Effector Biolgy" is available at University of Cologne (Germany).
The application deadline is the 17.02.2019.
Prof. Gunther Döhlemann...
One temporary position for 36 months as fourth level Researcher (R4) in the field of Plant Pathology and Microbial Agro-ecology (255_CRI_PPMA) is available at Fondazione Edmund Mach
Deadline: February 17,...
Recent developments in high-throughput sequencing (HTS), also called next-generation sequencing (NGS), technologies and bioinformatics have drastically changed research on viral pathogens and spurred growing interest in the field of virus diagnostics. However, the reliability of HTS-based virus...
Disease resistance (R) genes from wild relatives could be used to engineer broad-spectrum resistance in domesticated crops. We combined association genetics with R gene enrichment sequencing (AgRenSeq) to exploit pan-genome variation in wild diploid wheat and rapidly clone four stem rust...
The XVI Congresso AISSA "Gli effetti dei cambiamenti climatici sull'agricoltura, sulle foreste e sull'ambiente rurale in Italia" will be organized at the ex Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), February 14th and 15th 2019.