Kerry Leslie

Potato Consultant and Nematologist at SAC Consulting

SRUC

kerry.leslie@sac.co.uk

Kerry is a consultant with the potatoes team at SAC Consulting (SRUC). With a PhD focusing on PCN, and previous employment at SASA, she hopes to bridge the gap between researchers, government/policy makers and growers through the Knowledge Exchange and Communications Work Package (8).

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.