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ByMartynFisher
Thursday26thJune2014,9:00GMT
Plantscience
honourforJames
Hutton
researchers
Cooke,left,andWhite
DrDavidCooke-whohasworkedonbehalfofPotatoCouncil-hasbeen
presentedwiththeRoyalAgriculturalSocietyofEngland2013Research
Medal
T
woresearchersbasedattheJames
Professor White said: “It is a great
Council and the Scottish Government for
Hutton Institute have been
achievementtobeoneofonly24Scottish
support and funding, the contribution of
recognisedfortheircontribution
academics to be named on this list of the
many colleagues within the institute,
world’s leading scientists. I am honoured.
collaborators across the world and,
However, since modern science is not the
importantly those walking the fields and
effort of any individual alone, credit
collectingpotatoblightsamples.”
toplantscience.
ProfessorPhilipJWhitehasbeenlistedby
Thomson Reuters as one of 176 Highly
should be shared with all my gifted
Cited Researchers in Plant and Animal
collaborators,whohavehelpedproduceso
“DrCookehasbeenastalwartofourFight
Scienceovertheperiod2002-2012,whileDr
manywell-citedpapers.”
Against Blight campaign for almost a
David Cooke - who has worked on behalf
decade,”saidPotatoCouncildirector,Rob
of Potato Council - has been presented
Onreceivingthe2013ResearchMedalfrom
Clayton. “He has a unique ability and
with the Royal Agricultural Society of
theRoyalAgriculturalSocietyofEngland,
commitment to making sure primary
England
2013
Medal,
in
Dr Cooke said: “This recognition means a
producers understand the significance of
work
of
lot to me. I ventured on my career in
what can be at times a complex research
outstanding merit carried out in the UK,
agricultural
outcome. His globally leading interest in
whichisprovenorlikelytobeofbenefitto
intellectualchallengeofdiscoveryandthe
understanding
agriculture.’
desiretoconvertscientificknowledgeinto
populationhelpsputGBonthefrontfoot
recognition
of
Research
‘research
research
for
both
the
a
changing
blight
practicalbenefitsfortheindustry.Itisvery
when responding to an ever-changing
Thomson Reuters’ lists of Highly Cited
satisfying that I appear to have been
industryproblem.”
Researchers
successfulinthisconversionprocess.
contains
over
3,000
researchers across 21 broad subject
categories in life sciences, medicine,
physical sciences, engineering and social
ProfessorIainGordon,Chief Executive of
“IwouldliketoacknowledgePotato
theJamesHutton Institute, congratulated
bothscientistsandsaid:
sciences.
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“ThisdemonstratesthattheJamesHutton
EdinburghandCambridge.Between2006
andexploitationofgeneticmarkersfor
Instituteishometoworldclassscientists.
and2011,heledthesuccessfulEnvironment
examiningthepopulationbiology,
TheexcellentsciencethatProfessorWhite
PlantInteractionsProgrammeatthe
epidemiologyandmanagementof
leadshasbeenaptlyrecognisedwithhis
ScottishCropResearchInstitute,a
Phytophthorainfestans,thepathogen
inclusionasaHighlyCitedResearcherin
predecessoroftheJamesHuttonInstitute.
responsibleforblightofpotato,tomato
plantandanimalscience,andDrCooke’s
Heiscurrentlyengagedonprojects
andotherrelatedhosts.
researchonthegeneticsofthepotatolate
addressingplantmineralnutrition,from
blightpathogenhelpskeeptheJames
thegenestotheharvest.
DrCookealsoco-ordinatespathogendata
fortheEuroBlightproject,whichexamines
Huttoninstituteattheforefrontofthe
Afistclasshonoursgraduateinagricultural
populationsofP.infestansinEurope,and
botanyandPhDinplantpathologyfrom
hismostrecentpaper(“Irishpotatofamine
theUniversityofAberystwyth,DrCooke
pathogenPhytophthorainfestans
hasbeenwiththeJamesHuttonInstitute
originatedincentralMexicoratherthan
ProfessorWhitegraduatedfromOxford
anditspredecessortheScottishCrop
theAndes”)waspublishedinProceedings
UniversitywithaBAinbiochemistryand
ResearchInstitutesince1994asaproject
oftheNationalAcademyofSciencesofthe
wasawardedaPhDinnaturalsciences
leaderinplantpathology.Hismain
UnitedStates.
(botany)fromtheUniversityof
researchinterestsincludethedevelopment
globalchallengeofdeveloping
biotechnology-basedtoolstotacklecrop
disease.”
Manchester.Hehasworkedatthe
Universitiesof
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