Professor Giles Oldroyd

Sustainable Crop Nutrition based at the Crop Science Centre

 

My research focuses on understanding the signalling and developmental processes in plants that allow interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that facilitate the capture of nutrients from the environment. My mission is to eradicate the need for inorganic fertilisers in agriculture, through the use of these beneficial microbial associations. We aim to achieve this through optimising the use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that form associations with most crop plants and through the transfer of the nitrogen-fixing association to the many crop plants that lack this association. Greater use of these beneficial microbial associations in agriculture has much potential for enhancing the sustainability of agriculture in high and middle-income countries and providing sustainable productivity for farmers in low-income countries.  

 

 

2019-present Director, Crop Science Centre

2017-present Group Leader, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University

2002-2017 Group leader, John Innes Centre, Norwich

1998-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Stanford University, California

 

1994-1998 PhD in Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley

1990-1994 BA Plant Biology, University of East Anglia

 

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