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Primary supervisor - Prof Paul Nicholson Wheat rusts are a continual global threat to wheat production, with the potential to cause total crop loss in untreated susceptible varieties. Wheat yellow
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of the University of Porto, hereby advertises the opening of a 10-working-day international call for recruitment of one PhD researcher within Project ‘Wheatbiome: Unravelling the potential of the wheat microbiome
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Primary supervisor - Prof Diane Saunders Wheat rusts are known as the “polio of agriculture” due to the threat they pose to wheat production worldwide. The wheat stem and yellow rust pathogens
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Primary supervisor - Prof Cristóbal Uauy Wheat provides 20% of the calories and protein consumed by humans. The world population will reach 9 billion by 2050, which requires food production
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plant health. This is particularly relevant for take-all, the most devastating wheat root disease worldwide, which can reduce yields by up to 20%. The importance of root microbial community in take-all
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-suppressing effectors from the major wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici. These effectors have diverse phenotypes when expressed in plants and many have high-confidence AlphaFold predictions. This project aims
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interactions with potential pathogens. To achieve this objective, we will use the genetically tractable model fungus Zymoseptoria tritici. This fungus also causes Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease of wheat
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important cereal crops like barley and wheat. Several of these new immune receptors contain unusual protein regions that likely directly bind pathogen molecules called “effectors”. Currently, we understand
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efficient use of soil water and drought stress resilience. The studies in the project will include different crops, mainly winter wheat and perennial ryegrass. The project will work in two main directions: 1