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Dr Alexandra Schlenzig

Senior Plant Pathologist,
Team Leader Horticultural Pathology

Telephone Number
+44(0)131 244 8937

Email Address
alexandra.schlenzig@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

  

 

Research interests/Areas of expertise

  • Diagnosis of horticultural plant diseases using molecular, serological and classical techniques
  • Risk assessments, surveillance planning and outbreak management for quarantine and regulated non-quarantine diseases
  • Developing and evaluating disease testing methods
  • Identification, management and epidemiology of Phytophthora diseases
  • Susceptibility testing for Potato Wart Disease
  • Soft fruit diseases

Biography

  • Joined SASA in 2002.
  • 2000-2002: Postdoctoral research scientist, Syngenta Crop Protection, Switzerland. Genotyping of Phytophthora infestans (Potato Late Blight), molecular studies into fungicide resistance of Septoria tritici (Leaf blotch disease on wheat).
  • 1998-2000: Postdoctoral research scientist in Forest Pathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Development of PCR based detection and identification methods for Phytophthora diseases on forest trees.
  • 1994-1997: PhD project on Phytophthora infestans, Technical University of Munich

Publications

Schlenzig A.  2011.  A duplex PCR method for the simultaneous identification of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae. EPPO Bulletin. 41(1):27-29.
Schlenzig A, Campbell R, Mulholland V.  2011.  Thuja occidentalis: a new host for Phytophthora lateralis. New Disease Reports. 24:8.
Schlenzig A, Chard J.  2010.  Examination of latent infection in raspberry canes with Phytophthora rubi and P. idaei and transmission in micropropagation. EPPO Bulletin. 40(2):213-218.
Schlenzig A.  2009.  Identification of Phytophthora fragariae var. rubi by PCR. Plant Pathology : Techniques and Protocols. 508:161-169.
Schlenzig A.  2008.  An update on Potato Wart disease. Proceedings Crop Protection in Northern Britain 2008. :211-215.
Schlenzig A.  2008.  Phytophthora ramorum in Scotland - is it all over? Proceedings of the Sudden Oak Death Third Science Symposium. :443-446.
Schlenzig A.  2008.  Raspberry root rot control in the Scottish raspberry certification scheme. IOBC/WPRS Bulletin 39. 39:165-167.
Schlenzig A.  2006.  Phytophthora ramorum: The situation in Scotland. EPPO Bulletin. 36(2):380-382.
Schlenzig A, Chard J.  2005.  Comparison of baiting method and PCR for the detection of Phytophthora fragariae var. rubi in certified raspberry stocks. EPPO Bulletin. 35(1):87-91.
Schlenzig A.  2005.  First report of Phytophthora inflata on nursery plants of Rhododendron spp., Gaultheria shalon and Vaccinium vitis-idaea in Scotland. Plant Pathology. 54(4):582.