Bristol

• Characterising the effect of root secretions in vertical farming systems
  Main supervisor: Dr Claire Grierson
  Student: Bryony Gardner
• Enhancing the stress tolerance and shelf life of horticultural crops through light quality manipulation
  Main supervisor: Dr Kerry Franklin
  Student: Jessie Bowers-Martin
• Intercepting CLAVATA receptor-like kinase function to engineer ear size in wheat
  Main supervisor: Dr Jill Harrison
  Student: Katie Jeal
• Meaningful microbiomes: Investigation of host-microbiome interactions in liver fluke infections
  Main supervisor: Prof Mick Bailey
  Student: Abbie Willams
• Re-engineering Golgi dynamics in plants
  Main supervisor: Dr Imogen Sparkes
  Student: Eleanor Fletcher
• Seeing the big picture: novel imaging tools to study spatial coordination of signalling processes in plants and algae
  Main supervisor: Prof Alistair Hetherington
  Student: Ellie Murphy

Cardiff

• Salad contamination with Listeria – improving food safety through understanding plant-bacterial interactions and development of novel detection methods
  Main supervisor: Dr Carsten Muller
  Student: Nicolaas Bruyniks

Exeter

• A genomic approach to understand insecticide toxicokinetics in a global crop pest
  Main supervisor: Prof Chris Bass
  Student: James Gardner
• The role of Rho GTPases in plant immunity
  Main supervisor: Dr Michael Deeks
  Student: Amber Connerton

Rothamsted

• Exploring communication mechanisms between fungal pathogens and plant cells
  Rothamsted supervisor: Prof Kim Hammond-Kosack
  Student: Victoria Armer
• Fusarium disease of wheat – exploring tissue specific host pathogen protein interactions using a systems biology approach
  Rothamsted supervisor: Dr Martin Urban
  Student: Erika Kroll
• Mass spectroscopy imaging of plant -fungi interactions: Understanding symbiosis for sustainable crop production
  Rothamsted supervisor: Dr Peter Eastmond
  Student: Sophia Anastacha