News from SLU Network Plant Protection
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13 January 2022
Two ERC starting grants to SLU
This year, two SLU researchers are awarded one of the most prestigious research grants in Europe, a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC): Petra Marhava, for studies of how plants deal with temperature variations, and Derek Lundberg, for studies of interactions between bacteria and plants. ERC staring grants are worth on average €1.5 million.
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09 September 2021
Grace contributes to food security with push-pull technologies
Grace Mercy want to contribute to food security, sustainable agriculture and new biocontrol solutions with her new PhD project on push-pull technology. This is a cropping system that
that reduces pest pressure by providing repellent stimuli (push), combined with attractive stimuli (pull). We took the chance to ask her some questions!
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31 May 2021
Landscape complexity promotes resilience of biological pest control
Ecosystem services can be vulnerable to climate change. How vulnerable depends on how resilient they are to, for example, changing temperatures. In a new study, landscape complexity was found to promote resilience of biological pest control to climate change.
