Reader in Plant Nematology - research interests biofumigation, trap crops, plant extracts. Specific experience with potato cyst nematodes - All views my own
Joined September 2015
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
14 Feb 2025
🆕 In our newly published paper in @Forests_MDPI, we explored how wood incubation influences the detection of the #pinewood_nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) in both pallet samples and fresh wood
🗞️ Read the paper at mdpi.com/1999-4907/16/2/339 | doi.org/10.3390/f16020339
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8 Jan 2025
Braving the frost with my colleague @FusariumUK and our group of PgC students taking the Plant Health Practices. We still managed to find 10 different symptoms of disease and pest damage on oilseed rape, sugar beet and winter wheat! @HarperAdamsUni
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6 Dec 2024
As always a fantastic day in the Nematologists calendar @aab_nematology Advances in Nematology at the London @LinneanSociety. Great representation by @HarperAdamsUni staff and students. Guest appearance by my daughter Emily
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
28 Nov 2024
I'm delighted to advertise our new fully funded PhD project: Can regenerative farming techniques increase the biocontrol potential of entomopathogenic nematodes against the cabbage stem flea beetle? Supervisors: Fisayo Daramola, Neil Havis, @DrMattBack. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super…
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Interested in supporting the new Dr. Richard Sikora Travel Award? See information about this great cause in the flyer below.
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24 Oct 2024
Amazing week at the 8th International Symposium of Biofumigation in San Pedro, Argentina. Thank you to @biofumigationar for their kind invitation @HarperAdamsUni
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10 Oct 2024
News - International experts meet at University to discuss latest research on major crop pest | Harper Adams University harper-adams.ac.uk/news/2112… @AABiologists @aab_nematology @DrKasiaDybal
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
26 Sep 2024
Would you ever consider non-crop annual plants (eg annual wildflowers) to support pollination, natural pest control or other ecosystem services on-farm? We would love to hear your thoughts.
26 Sep 2024
Do you use or promote non-cropped field margins or strips on arable land? Do you think annual plant communities could be used effectively in these? We would love to hear your thoughts. Please follow the link below:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk…
#agriculture #farming @H2020Cropdiva
ALT Flowering Crimson Clover and Common Vetch in a grass seed mixture
ALT Array of flowering annual plants on farmland
ALT Bumblebee inside a Phacelia flowering head
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
26 Sep 2024
It's 11-13 Nov 2025 Register grassland.org.nz/events.php: share/ register @KiwiYoung @GrasslandSocSA @GrassResearch @CGIAR @ILRI @LincolnAgritech @AgResearchNEWS @DrMattBack @ADjikeng @lmsibanda @BSPPjournals @royalsocietynz @HRivedal @Plant_Pathogens @plantdisease @EndophyteDiva
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Excited to welcome around 150 new Agrics to @HarperAdamsUni today as their Course Manager, a new chapter for me and for them! They passed their first test with flying colours managing to spell out AGRIC on the cricket pitch. Thanks to Dr Andrew Watson for the drone imagery.
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25 Sep 2024
Looking forward to @biofumigationar 8th International Symposium of Biofumigation in Argentina! @HarperAdamsUni @KAWALYAFRANCIS1
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21 Sep 2024
Please could someone explain why this Dahlia has a partially white inflorescence?
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13 Sep 2024
The Nematology Group @HarperAdamsUni celebrated @tripathi_niru passing her PhD - congratulations 🙌 Niru!
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
11 Sep 2024
My first ever PCN conference . It has been fascinating and action packed two days with lots of work from Potato industry, cover crops, soil amendments ,resistance, chemical control, policy , detection, phenotyping of nematodes. #PCNSYM6 @AABiologists @Valeria_orl7 @DrMattBack
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11 Sep 2024
Never forget my mentor, Dr Pat Haydock who initiated research on nematodes @HarperAdamsUni #PCNSYM6
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11 Sep 2024
Fabulous first day - 6th Symposium of PCN Management @DrKasiaDybal @HarperAdamsUni #PCNSYM6 Great variety of presentations on diverse topics. Plus Nematology Cèilidh! Thank-you @certis_belchim @cupgra @CABI_Knowledge @AABiologists
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Excited to be @HarperAdamsUni for Symposium on Potato Cyst Nematodes, which explores strategies to mitigate the impact of these very damaging pests. 🥔🪱
Online registration still available!
🕸️ web.cvent.com/event/56a2ab8b…
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Matthew Back 🇺🇦 retweeted
3 Sep 2024
@HarperAdamsUni Research Conference continues with a talk about suppressing nematodes in narcissus by @vongaichekanai
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