Identifying novel plant disease treatment in New Zealand kiwifruit orchards by Javier Martinez-Perez
Javier Martinez is agri-food and biological systems engineer by training. He specialised in Crop Protection and worked for the agrochemical industry before starting a PhD with the Malone lab at the John Innes Centre. He is now contributing to unlocking the biosynthetic potential of New Zealand kiwifruit Pseudomonas bacteria to fight back against P. syringae pv. actinidiae, a kiwifruit pathogen.
Javier Martinez-Perez presents Micro-Talks: Identifying novel plant disease treatment in New Zealand kiwifruit orchards.
Micro-Talks is a new seminar series spearheaded by the ECS committee, and aims to be a platform to highlight the work of ECS members.
Format
Talks will be 15 minutes long and targeted at a broad microbiology audience. It will be hosted as a webinar with a Q&A session afterwards, both of these will then be available to view on the SfAM website for the week (and will later be added to our archive of talks).
You can read more about Javier's work in the September 2020 issue of Microbiologist
