David Cooke

Dr David Cooke is a senior plant pathologist at the James Hutton Institute in Dundee, UK and has almost 30 years’ experience in studying potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans. He works with industry and research partners at national and international scales to co-ordinate the GB Fight Against Blight and EuroBlight genetic fingerprinting of the rapidly evolving pathogen population. He collaborates with many stakeholders from breeders, agronomists and crop protection chemical manufacturers to use the knowledge on the pathogen population to improve the effectiveness of late blight management and the sustainability of potato production.