PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Deciphering Critical Regulators in Wheat Rust Immunity

Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

Institution: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 and a Research Training Support Grant of £5,000pa for each year of the studentship.
Deadline: 30 Nov 2026 · 18 days left

About this position

Successful plant pathogens hijack plant metabolism and biosynthetic pathways to enrich nutrient availability. However, exploiting host physiology creates changes in metabolites that plants can sense and interpret as indicators of pathogen infection. This includes branched chain amino acids (BCAAs), which represent important energy sources for pathogens, yet BCAA accumulation in plants also increases levels of the defence compound salicylic acid (SA), which plays a central role in directing immune signaling against biotrophic pathogens. We previously showed in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum), t

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