Ian Toth

Senior Principal Researcher at the James Hutton Institute, Director of Scotland's Plant Health Conference

The James Hutton Institute

ian.toth@hutton.ac.uk

Ian is a science group leader at the James Hutton Institute and Director the Scotland’s Plant Health Centre (PHC). His science focus is on pests and pathogens of potato, mainly blackleg disease, but he is also leading the PCN project as part of his role within the PHC. He has close ties to potato industry stakeholders and is keen to use his science to make a positive difference for them.

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.