Whodunnit: The plant disease detective - Michael Long 🍂🕵️

Описание: The plants in our garden centres, the vegetables in our fields, the fruit on our trees have all been cultivated specially for us. But what happens if the grower has an outbreak of plant disease? How do we know what the disease is so the grower can fight it? In steps plant disease detective Michael Long who diagnoses the specific plant disease to help the grower deal with the outbreak!

0:00 Introduction
0:17 Diagnosing plant diseases
1:20 A career in plant detection
3:20 A rewarding job

Speaker profile: As a qualified Plant Health Professional and Associate Member of the Royal Socoety for Biology, Michael currently works as a Mycology Diagnostician at Fera Science Ltd working with Fungal Plant Pathogens. Having obtained his Biology degree from the University of Reading, he went on to complete a Masters in Plant Pathology at Harper Adams University. After working on trials on the efficacy and effects of wetting agents and fertilisers in plant growing media at Amega Sciences, he moved to Fera Science Ltd in 2019 where he specialises in fungal plant pathogens.

Filmed at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School, 2022.