Meet the Team

Project Leader

Ian Toth PCN project leader
Ian Toth
Senior Principal Researcher at the James Hutton Institute, Director of Scotland's Plant Health Conference
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 1 Leader

Steven Thomson
Work Package 1 Lead: Economics
Scotland’s Rural College

Work Package 2 Leader 

Dr James Price in a field of potatoes
James Price
Work Package 2 Lead: Decision Support (DSS)
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 3 Leader

Ingo Hein Work Package 3 Leader
Ingo Hein
Work Package 3 Lead: Resistance Marker Development
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 4 Leader

Glenn Bryan
Work Package 4 Lead: Dihaploid induction
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 5 Leader

John Jones Leader of Work Package 5
John Jones
Work Package 5 Lead: Mechanistic understanding of tolerance to PCN
The James Hutton Institute

Work Package 6 Leader

Jim Wilson
Managing Director SoilEssentials Ltd.
SoilEssentials

Work Package 7 Leader

Eric Anderson work package 7 leader
Eric Anderson
Senior Agronomist for Scottish Agronomy
Scottish Agronomy

Work Package 8 Leader

Work package 8 leader Dr Philip Burgess
Dr Philip Burgess
Leader of scottishpotatoes.org