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Dr. Jon WestSenior Post-doctoral Scientist 
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Jon West is a senior post-doctoral plant pathologist at Rothamsted Research, with extensive experience in applied multi-disciplinary crop protection projects. He obtained a BSc in Biology from Royal Holloway, London in 1990 and a PhD in Plant Pathology at Reading in 1994. At Rothamsted, since 1997, Jon’s work has focussed on the biology and control of fungal diseases, measurement of plant disease resistance, the early detection of diseases by optical sensing and airborne-dispersal of spores. The latter is a key interest with implications for inoculum detection and forecasting, population studies, disease escape and crop tolerance. Systems currently under investigation are, fusarium ear blight and septoria leaf blotch in wheat and sclerotinia and stem canker (blackleg) of oilseed rape.
Jon is a member of the executive committee of the British Aerobiology Federation, a committee member of the applied mycology and bacteriology group of the Association of Applied Biologists and an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Plant Pathology.
Rogers SL, Atkins SD, West JS. 2009 Detection and quantification of airborne inoculum of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum using quantitative PCR. Plant Pathology 58, 324-331.
West JS, Atkins SD, Fitt BDL. 2009 Detection of airborne plant pathogens; halting epidemics before they start. Outlooks on Pest Management 20, 11-14.
Limpert E, Burke J, Galan C, Trigo MD, West JS, Stahel WA .2008 Data, not only in aerobiology: how normal is the normal distribution? Aerobiologia 24, 121-124.
West JS, Atkins SD, Emberlin J, Fitt BDL. 2008 PCR to predict risk of airborne disease. TRENDS in Microbiology. 16 (8), 380-387.
Boys EF, Roques SE, Ashby AM, Evans N, Latunde-Dada AO, Thomas JE, West JS, Fitt BDL. 2007 Resistance to infection by stealth: Brassica napus (winter oilseed rape) and Pyrenopeziza brassicae (light leaf spot) in Europe. European Journal of Plant Pathology 118, 307-321.
Huang YJ., Liu Z, West JS, Todd AD, Hall AM, Fitt BDL. 2007 Effects of temperature and rainfall on date of release of ascospores of Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) from winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) debris in the UK. Annals of Applied Biology. 151, 99-111.
Moshou D, Bravo C, Wahlen S, West JS, McCartney HA, De Baerdemaeker J, Ramon H. 2006 Simultaneous identification of plant stresses and diseases in arable crops using proximal optical sensing and self-organising maps. Precision Agriculture, 7 (3), 149-164.
Fitt BDL, Huang Y-J, van den Bosch F, West JS. 2006 Coexistence of Related Pathogen Species on Arable Crops in Space and Time. Annual Review of Phytopathology 44, 163-182.
Aubertot JN, West JS, Bousset-Vaslin L, Salam MU, Barbetti MJ, Diggle AJ. 2006 Improved resistance management for durable disease control: a case study of phoma stem canker of oilseed rape (Brassica napus). European Journal of Plant Pathology 114, 91-106.
West JS, Fitt BDL. 2005 Population dynamics and dispersal of Leptosphaeria maculans (blackleg of canola). Australasian Plant Pathology 34, 457-461.
Fraaije BA, Cools HJ, Fountaine J, Lovell DJ, Motteram J, West JS, Lucas JA. 2005 QoI resistant isolates of Mycosphaerella graminicola and the role of ascospores in further spread of resistant alleles in field populations. Phytopathology 95, 933-941.
Moshou D; Bravo C; Oberti R; West J; Bodria L; McCartney A; Ramon H. 2005. Plant disease detection based on data fusion of hyper-spectral and multi-spectral fluorescence imaging using Kohonen maps. Real-Time Imaging 11 (2), 75-83.
Huang Y-J, Fitt BDL, Jedryczka M, Dakowska S, West JS, Gladders P, Steed JM, Li Z-Q. 2005 Patterns of ascospore release in relation to phoma stem canker epidemiology in England (Leptosphaeria maculans) and Poland (L. biglobosa). European Journal of Plant Pathology 111, 263-277.
Moshou D, Bravo C, West JS, Wahlen S, McCartney HA, Ramon, H. 2004. Automatic detection of yellow rust in wheat using reflectance measurements and neural networks. Journal of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 44, 173-188.
West JS, Bravo C, Oberti R, Lemaire D, Moshou D, McCartney HA. 2003. The potential of optical canopy measurement for targeted control of field crop diseases. Annual Review of Phytopathology 41, 593-614.
Bravo C, Moshou D, West J, McCartney HA, Ramon H. 2003. Early disease detection in wheat fields using spectral reflectance. Journal of Biosystems Engineering. 84, 137-145.
Schmit J, West J, Narcy JP, Roux J, Balesdent MH, Rouxel T, Gout L, 2002 La nécrose du collet du colza : analyse de la distribution du champignon dans la plante à l'aide d'outils moléculaires (Stem canker in oilseed rape: analysis of the distribution of the fungus in the plant using molecular tools. Ocl-Oleagineux Corps Gras Lipides 9, 79-85.
West JS, Fitt BDL, Leech PK, Biddulph JE, Huang Y-J, Balesdent M-H (2002) Effects of timing of Leptosphaeria maculans ascospore release and fungicide regime on phoma leaf spot and phoma stem canker development on winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in southern England. Plant Pathology 51, 454-463.
West JS, Fox RTV (2002) Stimulation of Armillaria mellea by phenolic fungicides. Annals of Applied Biology 140, 291-295.
West JS, Balesdent M-H, Rouxel T, Narcy JP, Huang Y-J, Roux J, Steed JM, Fitt BDL, Schmit J (2002) Colonisation of winter oilseed rape tissues by A/Tox+ and B/Tox0 Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) in France and England. Plant Pathology 51, 311-321.
West JS, McCartney HA (2002) Optical disease detection and estimation of latent infections around disease foci for targeted pesticide application. Aspects of Applied Biology 66, International advances in pesticide application. pp463-468.
Huang YJ, Underwood CT, Fitt BDL, Todd AD, West JS, Koopmann B, Balesdent MH (2001) Effects of temperature on germination and hyphal growth from ascospores of A-group and B-group Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker of oilseed rape). Annals of Applied Biology 139, 193-207.
Sun P, Fitt BDL, Steed JM, Underwood CT, West JS (2001) Factors affecting development of phoma canker (Leptosphaeria maculans) on stems of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in southern England. Annals of Applied Biology 139, 227-242.
West JS, Kharbanda PD, Barbetti MJ, Fitt BDL (2001) Epidemiology and management of Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker) on oilseed rape in Australia, Canada and Europe. Plant Pathology 50, 10-27.
Toscano-Underwood C, West JS, Fitt BDL, Todd AD, Jedryczka M (2001) Development of phoma lesions on oilseed rape leaves inoculated with ascospores of A-group or B-group Leptosphaeria maculans (stem canker) at different temperatures and wetness durations. Plant Pathology 50, 28-41.
West JS, Hughes C., Fox RTV (2000) Armillaria mellea can infect the perennial weed, Rumex obtusifolius, in the UK. New Disease Reports [www.bspp.org.uk/ndr/2000/2000-11.htm] and Plant Pathology 49, 808.
West JS, N Evans, S Liu, B Hu, L Peng (2000) Leptosphaeria maculans causing stem canker of oilseed rape in China. New Disease Reports [www.bspp.org.uk/ndr/2000/2000-3.htm] and Plant Pathology 49, 800.
West JS, Pearson S, Hadley P, Wheldon AE, Henbest RGC (2000) Spectral filters for the control of Botrytis cinerea. Annals of Applied Biology 136, 115-120.
West JS (2000) Chapter 9; Chemical Control of Armillaria; In: Armillaria root rot: biology and control of Honey Fungus; edited by R.T.V. Fox, Intercept Books, Andover.
West JS, Biddulph JE, Fitt BDL, Gladders P (1999) Epidemiology of Leptosphaeria maculans in relation to forecasting stem canker severity on winter oilseed rape in the UK. Annals of Applied Biology 135, 535-546.
Zhou Y, Fitt BDL, Welham SJ, Gladders P, Sansford CE, West JS (1999) Effects of severity and timing of stem canker (Leptosphaeria maculans) symptoms on yield of winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus) in the UK. European Journal of Plant Pathology 105, 715-728.
van Haeringen CJ, West JS, Davis FJ, Gilbert A, Hadley P, Pearson S, Wheldon AE, Henbest RGC (1998) The development of solid spectral filters for the regulation of plant growth. Photochemistry and Photobiology 67, 407-413.
McCartney HA, West JS. 2007 Dispersal of fungal spores through the air In: "Food Mycology – a multifaceted approach to Fungi and Food", Eds. J Dijksterhuis & RA Samson, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA; 403pp.
Lacey ME, West JS 2006 The Air Spora. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 156pp.
McCartney HA, Fitt BDL, West JS 2006 Chapter 6; Dispersal of foliar fungal plant pathogens: mechanisms, gradients and spatial patterns In: "The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases", 2nd Edition, Eds. B. M. Cooke, D. Gareth Jones & B Kaye; Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 576pp.
Moshou D, Bravo C, Wahlen S, West JS, McCartney HA, De Baerdemaeker J, Ramon H 2003 Simultaneous identification of plant stresses and diseases in arable crops based on a proximal sensing system and Self-Organising Neural Networks In: “Precision Agriculture”, Eds. J. Stafford & A. Werner; Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands. p425-432.
West JS. 2000 Chapter 9; Chemical Control of Armillaria; In: “Armillaria root rot: biology and control of Honey Fungus”; edited by R.T.V. Fox, Intercept Books, Andover.