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Prof. John Anthony Pickett, CBE, DSc, FRS
Address:Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herts AL5 2JQ, UK
Telephone:01582763133 x2321
email:john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk
Career:
2010–to date Michael Elliott Distinguished Research Fellow & Scientific Leader of Chemical Ecology Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
1984–2010 Head, Dept of Biological Chemistry; concurrently Scientific Director, Centre for Sustainable Pest & Disease Management (Individual Merit Band 2, 1993)
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK
1976-1983 Principal Scientific Officer IACR-Rothamsted, Harpenden, UK
1972-1976 Senior Scientist, Chemistry Dept Brewing Research Foundation, UK
1970-1972 Postdoctoral fellowship
Uni. of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology
Education:
1967 Uni. of Surrey B.Sc. Chemistry, 2:1 Honours
1971 Uni. of Surrey Ph.D. Organic Chemistry
1993 Uni. of Nottingham D.Sc. Chemical Ecology
Honours & Prizes:
•1991-present: Honorary Professor, Uni. of Nottingham.
•Bachelor of the Uni. of Surrey, honoris causa, 2 November 2011.
•Honorary Fellowship, Royal Entomological Society, 2010.
•Wolf Foundation Prize for Agriculture, 2008. Honorary DSc, Uni. of Aberdeen, 2008. Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture & Forestry, 2005.
•CBE, Services to Biological Chemistry, 2004.
•International Society of Chemical Ecology Medal, 2002.
•Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, 2001.
•Fellow of the Royal Society, 1996.
•The Rank Prize, Nutrition & Crop Husbandry, 1995.
Recent Invited Lectures:
Keck Distinguished Seminar, North Carolina State Uni., Raleigh, 12 Sept. 2013. Millennium Address, ASSOCHAM’s 9th Knowledge Millennium Summit, New Delhi, India & recipient of 2011 Millennium Award, 8 Nov. 2011. Wilson Baker Lecture, Uni. of Bristol, 17 March 2010. Cornell Uni. Lecture, Ithaca, USA, 31 March 2009. Royal Society Croonian Prize Lecture, “Plant & Animal Communication”, 3 June 2008. HR MacCarthy Pest Management Lecture, Uni. British Columbia, 10 Oct. 2007. Andersonian Chemical Society Centenary Lecture, Uni. Strathclyde, 5 April 2006. Cameron-Gifford Lecture, Uni. Newcastle, 9 Feb. 2000. Barrington Memorial Lecture, Uni. Nottingham, 29 April 1999. Woolhouse Lecture, Society for Experimental Biology, Uni. York, 26 March 1998. Alfred M. Boyce Lecture, Uni. California, Riverside, 1993. Distinguished Lecture in Life Sciences, Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell Uni., 1991.
Selected Recent Publications (total 480):
Pickett, JA et al. (2014) Prospects of genetic engineering for robust inset resistance. Current Opinion in Plant Biology (In Press) Open Access
Pickett, JA et al.(2014) Push-pull farming systems. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 26:125-132 Open Access
Pickett, JA et al. (2014) Delivering sustainable crop protection systems via the seed: exploiting natural constitutive and inducible defence pathways. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 369:20120281
Khan, ZR et al. (2014) Achieving food security for one million sub-Saharan African poor through push–pull innovation by 2020. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 369:20120284
Babikova, Z et al. (2013) Underground signals carried through fungal networks warn neighbouring plants of aphid attack. Ecology Letters 16:835-843.
Oluwafemi, S. et al. (2013) Priming of production in maize of volatile organic defence compounds by the natural plant activator cis-jasmone. PLOS ONE 8:6:e62299
Tamiru, A et al. (2011) Maize landraces recruit egg and larval parasitoids in response to egg deposition by a herbivore. Ecology Letters 14:1075-1083.
Bruce, TJA et al. (2008) cis-Jasmone induces Arabidopsis genes that affect the chemical ecology of multitrophic interactions with aphids and their parasitoids. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 105:4553-4558.
Beale, MH et al. (2006) Aphid alarm pheromone produced by transgenic plants affects aphid & parasitoid behaviour. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 103:10509-10513.
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Enhancement of crop resistance to pests |
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BioVision Alexandria 7-9 April 2014
ABSTRACT
Enhancement of crop resistance to pests
John A. Pickett, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, U.K.
Email: john.pickett@rothamsted.ac.uk
Secondary plant metabolism has the potential to offer robust and sustainable plant protection and can represent similar effectiveness to current pesticides. However, in order to avoid strong selection for resistance, more sophisticated integrated pest management (IPM) strategies for deployment are required. Thus, when designing strategies to exploit secondary metabolism through breeding and GM, e.g. wheat expressing the aphid alarm pheromone, and by incorporating natural plant diversity to generate crop protection via companion planting, inducible expression is an essential component. Such induction agents or elicitors include patentable natural products from both aerial and rhizosphere interactions between damaged and intact plants. The push-pull technology, involving companion plants that are grown as intercrops to repel pests and attract natural enemies, and externally grown trap crops that attract pests, is working dramatically well in Africa. From this research and technology transfer programme, there are valuable lessons for developing and deploying GM crops in industrialised agriculture.
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