James Price

Dr James Price in a field of potatoes
Project Leader and Work Package 2 Lead: Decision Support (DSS)
The James Hutton Institute
james.price@hutton.ac.uk

James is a molecular plant pathologist and nematologist at The James Hutton Institute with a PhD in and 10 years of experience working with plant-parasitic nematodes. With a specific focus on PCN, he has investigated parasite-host interactions, specifically; hatching, nematode surface-coats, screening for host PCN resistance and investigating host tolerance to PCN. 

James holds an honorary lectureship appointment at the University of St. Andrews and also provides lectures on nematode life cycle biology for the University of Ghent International Master of Science in Agro- and Environmental Nematology (IMaNema) course. 

James is currently the project lead of the PCN Action Scotland Group. 

Publications

Work Package 1 - Economics, Work Package 6 - Groundkeeper Control, Work Package 2 - Decision Support, Work Package 3 - Resistance marker development and mobilising new resistances, Work Package 4 - Dihaploid induction for accelerated crop improvement, Work Package 5 - Mechanistic understanding of tolerance to PCN to aid breeding, Work Package 7 - Novel IPM tools, Work Package 8 - Knowledge Exchange and Communications | Final Report

Project Report Year One - Delivering a sustainable potato industry for Scotland through management of potato cyst nematode (PCN)

Authors: Ian Toth, Ingo Hein, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, John Jones, Xinwei Chen, Pete Skelsey, James Price, Sonia Humphris, Kerry Leslie, Steven Thomson, Fiona Burnett, Andrew Barnes, Eric Anderson, Jim Wilson, Jon Pickup, K Preedy
May 2023

A summary report of progress made across the work packages addressed by the PCN working group in year one.