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Prof. Xiangming Xu
Head of Department
Research Focus
Plant disease epidemiology
Soil microbial structure in relation to plant health
Scientific Activities
Leading Pest & Pathogen Ecology Department
Leading a research group on understanding disease development in relation to external environmental/soil conditions to develop management strategies
Significant Publications
Feng Wei, Xiaoping Hu & X-M. Xu (2016) Dispersal of Bacillus subtilis and its effect on strawberry phyllosphere microbiota under open field and protection conditions. Scientific Report 6, Article number: 22611 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep22611
F. Wei, T.A.J. Passey, X.-M. Xu (2016) Amplicon-based metabarcoding reveals temporal response of soil microbial community to fumigation-derived products. Applied Soil Ecology, 103, 83-92, doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.03.009 71.
X.-M. Xu and P. Nicholson (2009). Community ecology of fungal pathogens causing wheat head blight. Annual Review of Phytopathology 47, 83-103
Collaborators
Prof. Naresh Magan DSc
Professor of Applied Mycology
More about Prof. Naresh Magan...Dr. Angel Medina-Vaya PhD MRSB
Lecturer in Food Mycology, AgriFood MSc Programme Director, MSc Food Chain Systems Course Director
More about Dr. Angel Medina-Vaya...Dr. Richard Harrison
Head of department; Genetics, Genomics and Breeding
More about Dr. Richard Harrison...
