There's many ways to be a good #planthealthcitizen ✅By sourcing our plants responsibly: choose reputable nurseries & UK suppliers 🛍️For some helpful tips check out👉‘Buying Responsibly with Pippa Greenwood’ tinyurl.com/34yf9v5f Pippa Greenwood Defra UK #planthealthweek

Do you have experience providing laboratory support?

SASA are recruiting a Bacteriologist in #Edinburgh to perform testing of potatoes and plants for bacterial diseases.

Learn more: ow.ly/q8j950Rc4GH

#CivilServiceJobs #ScienceJobs #LabJobs

This week the AIC team visited SASA's site near Edinburgh.

We heard about seed testing & certification, variety testing, pesticide surveillance, potato virology & zoology, plus the plant health work they do. Our thanks to SASA for hosting this valuable tour & discussion.

Great ION_BRU talk from Alan McCluskey Alan McCluskey from SASA looking at metabarcoding of honey from Annan Academy bee club using Oxford Nanopore sequencing through a The Royal Society partner grant 🐝 🍯 🧬 #STEM

Steve Campbell from SASA talks to Dougie Vipond on BBC Landward this week about SASA's recent research into badgers, foxes and lamb predation: (bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…)

Great to see SASA’s innovative work on lamb predation featured on this weeks Landward (BBC Scotland - Landward, 2024, Episode 5) repeated on Sunday & Monday and available on iplayer

This was a very interesting visit with lots of exciting innovation coming down the track. Thanks to SRUC for the invite

Our Updating Event in Scotland has now been confirmed

🗓️22 May 2024,
📌SASA, Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh, EH12 9FJ

Places are limited on 2024 events, so please book by emailing [email protected]

#UpdatingEvents #AmenityForum

Scotland’s #Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme Quarterly Report data for 2018 and 2023 updated PAW Scotland #SASAChemistry #Pesticides sasa.gov.uk/animal-poisoni…

Opportunity for a Bacteriologist to join the #SASA team SASA. Visit tinyurl.com/4um5t83j for more info #jobs #ApplyNow

Opportunity for a Horticulture & Marketing Officer to join the #HMU team SASA. Visit tinyurl.com/kk39u3cc for more info #jobs #ApplyNow

New report presents the results of a survey of rodenticide use on arable farms in Scotland in 2022 #rodenticides #arable #pesticideusage gov.scot/isbn/978183521…

Can Potato Cyst Nematodes be effectively controlled by the introduction of resistant varieties?

A joint project between MathsStats@Strath and SASA

Student applications are now invited for the 10-weeks summer project funded by British Society for Plant Pathology

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James Price James Price introduces PCN Action PCN Action Scotland which is a collaborative network that aims to research all aspects of Potato Cyst Nematode, which is a real threat to UK potato industry.
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Opportunity for a Potato Pathologist to join the #SASAteam SASA. Visit tinyurl.com/2f82fr4u for more info #jobs #ApplyNow

New paper by #SASAWildifeManegement finds that rules governing rodenticide use have not reduced non-target exposure in foxes #wildlife #foxes #rodenticides tinyurl.com/275fsjcm

Opportunity for a Seed Analyst to join the #SASAteam SASA. Visit tinyurl.com/muvkwjfk for more info #jobs #ApplyNow

Opportunity for a Crops and GMO Policy Manager to join the #SASAteam SASA. Visit tinyurl.com/yc7r987c for more info #jobs #ApplyNow

Research on reports of badger predation on lambs on Scottish farms has found foxes were most likely responsible. Responding to growing concerns in the farming sector, the study was carried out by SASA, NatureScot, NFU Scotland & Scottish Land & Estates: nature.scot/foxes-most-lik…

Fantastic forensic DNA testing work by SASA to show not only that peregrines were not related to declared parents but also linked to several wild nest sites where birds had been obtained from scotland.police.uk/what-s-happeni…