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This project uses Illumina eDNA metabarcode sequencing to examine the diversity of Phytophthoras in soil and water at a range of forest, woodland and public garden sites across Britain to facilitate early pathogen detection and to better predict risk.

Optimal soil conditions or ‘soil health’ is the foundation of forest health, including providing resilience in the face of environmental change. This research aims to improve interest in and uptake of science-based guidance and advice to maintain or improve forest soil health for forest resilience.

Optimising a protocol for drone spraying onto single trees and evaluate the operational feasibility of using drones for control of the quarantine tree pest Oak Processionary Moth (Thaumetopoea processionea).

This project evaluates the potential use of detection dogs to support spruce movement inspections within demarcated areas in England, helping to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of efforts to control Ips typographus outbreaks.

Imogen Cavadino-Phillips

Identification of Ips typographus can be difficult when samples are damaged, degraded, or do not contain adult beetles. Two different molecular tests are being developed to aid the identification of Ips typographus in the lab and field, improving our ability to diagnose the pest rapidly and accurately.

The National Conversation project aims to lay the foundations for a national conversation on plant and tree health and biosecurity, by developing our understanding of the public’s awareness, attitudes, motivations and actions around the topic and exploring opportunities to encourage action for plant health and biosecurity through targeted interventions.

Daegan Inward Katy Reed

Daegan Inward Katy Reed

This project scopes whether Calosoma sycophanta could be reintroduced as a biocontrol agent for OPM in the UK.

The Forest Trapping Network (FTN) is a Great Britain-wide, broad-spectrum surveillance network which monitors for GB priority pest and EU quarantine organisms that other survey methods are unable to detect. The FTN is a rolling programme which will survey 4-6 woodlands within 100 forests for quarantine pests over five years.

The disease Dothistroma needle blight (DNB), caused by pathogen Dothistroma septosporum, decreases tree resilience, causes significant timber losses, sometimes mortality, and has led to large-scale species change on the Public Forest Estate across Britain. This research aims to determine whether genetically distinct populations of the foliar pine pathogen, D. septosporum...