Murray Grant

Thursday saw the Agricultural Universities Council launched with Sir Charles Godfray and Melanie Welham (Exec Chair BBSRC) supporting the event ! Looking forward to collaborating on UK Ag. @CEIAgri @WarwickLifeSci #AUCResearchStrategy

The cabbage tree (ti kouka, Cordyline australis), a lily with more usable carbohydrate per g/FW than sugar cane! What’s not to like? Matches Kauri as my favourite tree. Suffer(ed) from sudden decline (bacterium vectored by the passion vine hopper). @BacPlantDis #PlantHealthWeek

We have an exciting, multidisciplinary 4 year NSF/BBSRC funded project on plant systemic immune signalling, collaborating with the Kachroo laboratories in Kentucky, USA. Checkout; jobs.ac.uk/job/CVY259/res… Please RT

@KamounLab I know, disappointing. They need to up their game.

« You can also bring 42 litres of beer and 18 litres of wine »

The mighty majestic Kauri (Agathis australis) often > 1000 yo, has but one minor weakness; Kauri dieback caused by Phytophthora agathidicida. Success in plant health will be the knowledge to mitigate such impacts on our global flora #PlantHealthWeek #PlantHealthDay @BactPlantD

Favourite plants? Stuck between two, Malus x domestica presented here in a jug of my mind blowing, clear sparkling cider and the iconic New Zealand cabbage tree Cordyline australis (tī kōuka); who needs 5-a-day? #PlantsMakeLifeBetter @BactPlantDis #planthealthweek @WarwickLifeSci

@JWM177 Puny John, oldest truck in the book using the grandchild's wheelbarrow for scale. What's the disease?

Stage two, the washing. Maybe sow less this season? Seed quality too good these days!

Looking forward to the Bacterial Plant Diseases mid-term meeting here in sunny Sheffield. Finally F2F! @BactPlantDis

Exciting opportunity for a PDRA cell-biologist to join my group in Warwick to study plant metabolic immunity, using organelle targeted genetically encoded reporters to understand cellular processes underpinning disease and defence. jobs.ac.uk/job/CMW263/res… Please RT!

Finally, shamed into a tweet by @KamounLab. Sharing, rapid transcriptional dynamics underpinning ETI generated SAR by my highly talented ex. PhD student @GaikwadTrupti24 Anticlockwise bottom right RPM1, RPS4, control (PTI) and RPS2 activated luciferase activity. Enjoy