Adrian Newton
Current research interests
- Epidemiology, crop protection and resistance deployment
- Rhynchosporium on barley - Mechanisms of resistance
- Resistance elicitors as crop protectants
- Analysing epidemic spatial trends and local competition effects in heterogeneous vegetation and cultivar mixtures in general
- Adaptation to climate change in plant pathology
- Population biology of Rhynchosporium commune
- I am a key staff member leading Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPM) research at the Institute. For details of ongoing IPM research areas and projects, please visit the IPM@hutton website.
Current research grants activities
- Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2016-2021, Theme 2 – Productive and Sustainable Land Management and Rural Economies. Research Deliverable Leader for Plant, Pest Interactions (RD2.1.4), research objective leader in Integrated Pest Management (RD2.1.6), Novel Crops (2.1.8), Sustainable Soil and Water Management (RD2.3.4), Integrated Management Systems (RD2.3.9)
- EU 2020: SFS-2-2016 DIVERSify– Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability.
- EU 2020: SFS-26-2016 TRUE– Transition paths to sustainable legume-based systems in Europe.
- HGCA Soil Management call: Platforms to test and demonstrate sustainable soil management: integration of major UK field experiments (completed 2017).
- AHDB Horticulture PhD studentship: Integrated protection of horticultural crops through enhancing endogenous defence mechanisms (completed 2017).
- AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds PhD studentship: Introgressing Resilience and Resource Use Efficiency Traits from Scots Bere to Elite Barley Lines (REBEL).
- Royal Horticultural Society / Mylnefield Trust PhD studentship: Benign Enhancement Of Natural Defences: BEYOND.
- Danish Strategic Research Council: Restricting the pathogenic effect on barley of the endophytic fungus Ramularia collo-cygni PhD studentship.
- Agritech Catalyst: Breeding for Durable Resistance to Rhynchosporium.
- EU ENDURE network
- RESAS Innovation: Biocontrol for plant and human pathogens on horticultural produce.
Past research
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Qualifications
- BSc Hons (Agricultural Botany), Reading, UK, 1979
- PhD (Genetics), Birmingham, UK, 1982
External Duties
- Visiting Professor at SRUC, Edinburgh.
- Editor for Plant Pathology.
- Honorary Lecturer, University of Dundee.
- Member of the Association for Crop Protection in Northern Britain Standing Committee and Programme Committee.
- Member of HGCA Barley, Oats and Other cereals Recommended List Committee.
- Member of Scottish Variety Consultative Committee (Cereals).
- Scottish Society for Crop Research - Combinable and Energy Crops Committee.
Bibliography
- Davis, J.L.; Armengaud, P.; Larson, T.R.; Graham I.A.; White, P.J.; Newton, A.C.; Amtmann, A., (In press) Contrasting nutrient-disease relationships: Potassium gradients in barley leaves have opposite effects on two fungal pathogens with different sensitivities to jasmonic acid., Plant Cell and Environment.
- de Vega, D.; Newton, A.C.; Sadanandom, A., (2018) Post-translational modifications in priming the plant immune system: ripe for exploitation?, FEBS Letters, 592, 1929-1936.
- Holland, J.E.; Bennett, A.E.; Newton, A.C.; White, P.J.; McKenzie, B.M.; George, T.S.; Pakeman, R.J.; Bailey, J.S.; Fornara, D.A.; Hayes, R.C., (2018) Liming impacts on soils, crops and biodiversity in the UK: a review., Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 316-332.
- Brooker, R.W.; Karley, A.J.; Morcillo, L.; Newton, A.C.; Pakeman, R.J.; Schob, C., (2018) Crop presence, but not genetic diversity, impacts on the rare arable plant Valerianella rimosa., Plant Ecology and Diversity, 10, 495-507.
- Newton, A.C.; Guy, D.C.; Preedy, K., (2017) Wheat cultivar yield response to some organic and conventional farming conditions and the yield potential of mixtures., Journal of Agricultural Science, 155, 1045-1060.
- Vasileiadis, V.P.; Dachbrodt-Saaydeh, S.; Kudsk, P.; Colnenne-David, C.; Leprince, F.; Holb, I.J.; Kierzek, R.; Furlan, L.; Loddo, D.; Melander, B.; Jorgensen, L.N.; Newton, A.C.; Toque, C.; van Dijk, W.; Lefebvre, M.; Benezit, M.; Sattin, M., (2017) Sustainability of European winter wheat- and maize-based cropping systems: economic, environmental and social ex-post assessment of conventional and IPM-based systems., Crop Protection, 97, 60-69.
- Schoeb, C.; Hortal, S.; Karley, A.J.; Morcillo, L.; Newton, A.C.; Pakeman, R.J.; Powell, J.R.; Anderson I.C.; Brooker, R.W., (2017) Species but not genotype diversity strongly impacts the establishment of rare colonisers., Functional Ecology, 31, 1462-1470.
- Lechenet ,M.; Deytieux, V.; Antichic, D.; Aubertot, J.-N.; Bàrberi, B.; Bertrand, M.; Cellier, V.; Charles, R.; Colnenne-David, C.; Dachbrodt-Saaydeh, S.; Debaeke, P.; Doréi, T.; Farcy, P.; Fernandez-Quintanilla, C.; Grandeau, G.; Hawes, C.; Jouy, L.; Justes, E.; Kierzek, R.; Kudsk, P.; Lamichhane, J.R.; Lescourret, F.; Mazzoncini, M.; Melander, B.; Messéan, A.; Moonen, A.C.; Newton, A.C.; Nolot, J.M.; Panozzo, S.; Retaureau, P.; Sattin, M.; Schwarz, J.; Toqué, C.; Vasileiadis, V.P.; Munier-Jolain, N., (2017) Diversity of methodologies to experiment Integrated Pest Management in arable cropping systems: analysis and reflections based on a European network., European Journal of Agronomy, 83, 86-99.
- Kaczmareka, M.; Piotrowska, M.J.; Fountaine, J.M.; Gorniak, K.; McGrann, G.R.D.; Armstrong, A.; Wright, K.M.; Newton, A.C.; Harvis, N.D., (2017) Infection strategy of Ramularis collo-cygni and development of Ramularia leaf spot on barley and alternate graminaceous hosts., Plant Pathology, 66, 45-55.
- Hopkins, D.W.; Wheatley, R.E.; Coakley, C.M.; Daniell, T.J.; Mitchell, S.M.; Newton, A.C.; Neilson, R., (2017) Soil carbon and nitrogen and barley yield responses to repeated additions of compost and slurry., Journal of Agricultural Science, 155, 141-155.
- Brooker, R.; Iannetta, P.; Karley, A.; Newton, A.; Pakeman, R., (2017) Crop mixtures in the Strategic Research Programme., Workshop Report, James Hutton Institute, Dundee, 27 July 2017. Report circulated to workshop attendees.
- McKenzie, B.M.; Stobart, R.; Brown, J.L.; George, T.S.; Morris, N.; Newton, A.C.; Valentine, T.A.; Hallett, P.D., (2017) Platforms to test and demonstrate sustainable soil management: integration of major UK field experiments., AHDB Final Report RD-2012-3786, 178pp.
- Newton, A.C., (2016) Exploitation of diversity within cops - the key to disease tolerance?, Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, Article No. 665.
- Brooker, R.W.; Karley, A.J.; Newton, A.C.; Pakeman, R.J.; Schob, C., (2016) Facilitation and sustainable agriculture: a mechanistic approach to reconciling crop production and conservation., Functional Ecology, 30, 98-107.
- Gravouil, C.E.L.; Newton, A.C.; Bingham, I.J., (2016) The invisible risk of saprophytes: a cryptococcus/rhynchosporium case study., Proceedings of Crop Protection in Northern Britain 2016, Apex City Quay Hotel, Dundee, 23-24 February 2016.
- Squire, G.; Cammarero, D.; Daniell, T.; Newton, A.C.; White, P.J., (2016) Agriculture and forestry climate change report card technical paper. 3. Arable Crops., Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) Network with additional support from the Scottish Government.
- Brooker, R.; Karley, A.; Pakeman, R.J.; Newton, A.; Schob, C.; Morcillo, L., (2016) Biodiversity and function., In: Brooker, R., Hester, A. & Pakeman, R.J.(eds.). Ecosystem Services. The James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, pp6-7.
- Wiesel, L.; Davis, J.L.; Milne, L.; Fernandez, V.R.; Herold, M.B.; Williams, J.M.; Morris, J.; Hedley, P.E.; Harrower, B.; Newton, A.C.; Birch, P.R.J.; Gilroy, E.M.; Hein, I., (2015) A transcriptional reference map of defence hormone responses in potato., Scientific Reports, 5, Article No. 15229.
- Skelsey, P.; Newton, A.C., (2015) Future environmental and geographic risks of Fusarium head blight of wheat in Scotland., European Journal of Plant Pathology, 142, 133-147.
- Pakeman, R.J.; Karley, A.J.; Newton, A.C.; Morcillo, L.; Brooker, R.W.; Schob, C., (2015) A trait-based approach to crop-weed interactions., European Journal of Agronomy, 70, 22-32.
- Looseley, M.E.; Keith, R.; Guy, D.; Barral-Baron, G.; Thirugnanasambandam, A.; Harrap, D.; Werner, P.; Newton, A.C., (2015) Genetic mapping of resistance to Rhynchosporium commune and characterisation of early infection in a winter barley mapping population., Euphytica, 203, 337-347.
- Schoeb, C.; Kerle, S.; Karley, A.J.; Morcillo, L.; Pakeman, R.J.; Newton, A.C.; Brooker, R.W., (2015) Intraspecific genetic diversity and composition modify species-level diversity-productivity relationships., New Phytologist, 205, 720-730.
- Holden, N.; Newton, A.C.; Walters, D., (2015) Use of plant defence elicitors to provide induced resistance protection in brassica and allium crops., Annual Report on HDC Project FV417.
- Wiesel, L.; Newton, A.C.; Elliot, I.; Booty, D.; Gilroy, E.M.; Birch, P.R.J.; Hein, I., (2014) Molecular effects of resistance elicitors from biological origin and their potential for crop protection., Frontiers in Plant Science, 5, Article No. 655.
- Skelsey, P.; Newton, A.C., (2014) Scale-dependent assessment of relative disease resistance to plant pathogens., Agronomy, 4, 178-190.
- Looseley, M.E.; Newton, A.C., (2014) Assessing the consequences of microbial infection in field trials; seen, unseen, beneficial, parasitic and pathogenic., Agronomy, 4, 302-321.
- George, T.S.; Hawes, C.; Newton, A.C.; McKenzie, B.M.; Hallett, P.D.; Valentine, T.A., (2014) Field phenotyping and long-term platforms to characterise how crop genotypes interact with soil processes and the environment., Agronomy, 4, 242-278.
- George, T.S.; Brown, L.K.; Ramsay, L.; White, P.J.; Newton, A.C.; Bengough, A.G.; Russell, J.; Thomas, W.T.B., (2014) Understanding the genetic control and physiological traits associated with rhizosheath production by barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)., New Phytologist, 203, 195-205.
- Stobart, R.; Hallett, P.D.; George, T.S.; Morris, N.; Newton, A.C.; Valentine, T.A.; MacKenzie, B.M., (2014) Platforms to test and demonstrate sustainable soil management; integration of major UK field experiments., Crop Production in Southern Britain Meeting: Precision Decision for Profitable Cropping, Peterborough Arena, 25-26 November 2014. Aspects of Applied Biology, 127, 233-239.
- Skelsey, P.; Newton, A.C., (2014) Impacts on Agriculture: ‘‘Climate Change and Wheat Fusarium Head Blight Epidemics: Present and Future Risks., CXC Summary Report.
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