Dr Nida Ghori

Dr Nida Ghori is the wheat Take-all team leader at Rothamsted Research working within the BBSRC funded Delivering Sustainable Wheat as well as Growing Health projects. Nida has ~12 year’s experience in wheat research across three continents. Her expertise lies in wheat genetics, genomics, and biotic stresses (insect pests and diseases). During her PhD at Kansas State University, USA, she focused on the map-based cloning and marker development for a Hessian fly resistance gene in wheat. Currently, her Take-all fungal-wheat root disease research is uncovering the hidden genetic potential in the historic Watkins collection and mapping genomic regions (QTLs) responsible for tissue-based resistance to Take-all root disease. One aim is to develop high-throughput diagnostic KASP markers for use in UK wheat breeding programmes. Additionally, she is interested in investigating the effect of root architecture and the interaction of microbial communities in the soil/wheat root rhizosphere with Take-all. Nida has extensive experience supervising master's and undergraduate students. She has actively participated in outreach events and activities at Kansas State University and now at Rothamsted. She is enthusiastic and determined to combat pathogens and is open to collaborate with other scientists across the globe.