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Jeffrey Davies has died in Norwich at the age of 78
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A scientist and musician who helped boost vaccine research has died at hospital in Norwich.
Professor Jeffrey Davies, who latterly lived in Cromer, died at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital on Tuesday, February 23 at the age of 78 after a short illness.
Having moved to Norfolk in 1979 following work in the US and Netherlands, Prof Davies joined the John Innes Centre as the head of virus research.
He directed a group of scientists in this position until he retired in 2001.
Professor Jeffrey Davies has died at the age of 78 following a short illness
Illustrated children’s book ‘Aphid Attack!’ promotes plant health 17th March 2021
However, a collaboration between one of our PhD students, Josh Joyce, and an illustration student, Lauren Harris continued independently beyond this formal finish and led to an engaging children’s book highlighting the importance of plant health.
The illustrative book tells the story of Billy and his encounter with a plant scientist working to prevent wheat being attacked by aphids.
As part of the International Year of Plant Health, the formal collaboration focused on topics within our Plant Health research programme.
PhD student Josh was one of our researchers who got involved with the project. In February 2020 Josh spoke to second year illustration students about his research. Josh works on investigating how plants respond to insect attack and he focusses on understanding the signalling mechanisms involved in plant defences a
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Shanghai scientists make new discovery in plant immunity By ZHOU WENTING in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-11 10:41 Share CLOSE Researchers from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the discovery in Shanghai on Wednesday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Shanghai scientists have discovered the correlation between two immune pathways that plants use to protect themselves against diverse pathogens, providing new insights into strategies of improving plant resistance to numerous diseases.
Plants have a two-layered immune system - comprising of pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) and effector-triggered immunity (ETI) - to defend themselves against pathogens. Previous studies showed that PTI and ETI have significant differences in signaling initiation and early transduction events, and therefore have traditionally been considered to act