DrTony Twamley
Lecturer/Assistant Professor
School of Agriculture and Food Science
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- Lecturer/Assistant ProfessorSchool of Agriculture and Food Science
- 01 716 7721
- University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests lie in plant health and sustainable horticulture, with a focus on the interactions between plants, microbes, and their environment. I am particularly interested in:
Defence priming and elicitors as sustainable alternatives to conventional crop protection.
Valorisation of agricultural by-products (e.g., mulches, composts, extracts) for use in crop production and pest management.
Plant-microbe-environment interactions, including microbiome dynamics and the impact of stresses such as pathogens.
Applied horticultural innovation, from slug and weed control to improving resilience in protected cropping systems.
GRANTS
- OTHER GRANTInvestigating the role of receptor-like kinases (RLKs) in defence priming in wheatIrish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2020 - 30 Sep 2022People funded by this grant:
- Twamley T,
- Feechan A,
- Twamley T