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Alison Lees

Staff picture: Alison Lees
Cell and Molecular Sciences
Cell and Molecular Sciences
Potato Pathologist
alison.lees@hutton.ac.uk
+44 (0)1382 568834

The James Hutton Institute
Invergowrie
Dundee DD2 5DA
Scotland UK

 

Current research interests

  • Tools for Integrated Pest Management of potato diseases

  • Novel in-field detection methods for Phytophthora infestans to improve late blight forecasting.
  • DNA-based diagnostics to investigate the epidemiology of potato diseases and for disease risk assessment.
  • Epidemiology and control of soil-borne potato diseases including black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes), powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea) and Rhizoctonia.
  • Euroblight – A potato late blight Network for Europe.
  • Alison is a key staff member leading Integrated Pest and Disease Management (IPM) research at the James Hutton Institute. For details of ongoing IPM research areas and projects, please visit the IPM@hutton website.  

Past research

  • Coordination of EU Concerted Action ‘Eucablight’ – A Late Blight Network for Europe.
  • Inheritance of resistance to fungal potato pathogens.
  • Fusarium diseases of wheat

Scientific posters/conferences

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File The use of microsatellite markers to examine European P. infestans populations using the EUCABLIGHT database 218.37 KB
File Using SSR markers to investigate Scottish Phytophthora infestans populations and the epidemiology of potato late blight 787.86 KB
File The use of SSR markers to examine Scottish Phytophthora infestans populations 189.16 KB
File Eucablight (QLRT-2000-00971) 922.21 KB
File Eucablight – A Late Blight Network for Europe 513.17 KB
File Investigations into the biology of C. coccodes
Developing effective integrated measures for the control of black dot
224.06 KB
File Diagnostic testing for seed- and soil-borne diseases
Improving decision-making for the management of potato diseases using real-time predictive diagnostics
215.92 KB
File Black Dot Control Measures 122.08 KB
File Diagnostics - improving management decisions 115.05 KB
File The monitoring of GB blight outbreaks: mating type and genetic fingerprint analysis 381.34 KB
File Genetic analysis of Scottish Phytophthora infestans populations with emphasis on within-outbreak diversity in 2004 720.8 KB
File Tracking Late Blight in the Field 118.5 KB
File Using molecular tools to investigate the role of tuber and soil-borne inoculum of Phytophthora infestans 775.52 KB
File Investigating factors affecting infection of potato by Spongospora subterranea 737.38 KB
File Changing GB blight populations: mating type and genotype fingerprint analysis 905.72 KB
File Drivers and possible consequences of a changing population of Phytophthora infestans on the GB potato industry 805.63 KB
File Validating predictive diagnostics for soil-borne potato diseases 403.39 KB
File Mapping resistance to Late Blight in two S.verrucosum populations 290.72 KB
File The changing Phytophthora infestans population: implications for Late Blight epidemics and control 5.1 MB

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