The big picture: using wildflower strips for pest control
They may be beautiful, but these strips prove pretty deadly for every farmer's mortal enemy: aphids
Science
Mrs Charity Mareya
Chemical Ecologist - PhD Student
Translating Biotic Interactions
Location
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, AL5 2JQ
Professional Platforms
ORCID
ResearchGate
Biography
Charity is currently undertaking a collaborative SWBio DTP funded project between Rothamsted Research and the University of Exeter. Her project titled ‘Characterising secondary metabolite-based aphid resistance mechanisms from ancestral introgressions into modern wheat’, seeks to characterise volatile organic compound (VOC) and secondary metabolite (SM)-based resistance mechanisms through established germplasm resources (modern, ancestral and introgressed cereal lines). This is a highly multidisciplinary project spanning entomology, chemical ecology, analytical chemistry, bioinformatics and genetics fields.
Awards
- 2018 - MSc Biochemistry (RD), University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2015 - BSc Honours Biochemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2014- BSc Life and Environmental Sciences with specialisation in Biochemistry and Psychology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa