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Download PDF After more than 40 years in plant pathology, a career which Bill Clark describes as often ‘squatting in crops’, he finally hung up his wellies at the end of July. Earlier that month he sat down with CPM to reflect on what’s changed in that time, but most poignantly, what hasn’t. 40 years of progress and fungicide resistance strategies have stayed the same. By Lucy de la Pasture The new NIAB HQ in Cambridge, just a stone’s throw from its original location in Lawrence Weaver Way, opened just before the first lockdown was announced in March 2020. Even as the country was opening back up in July this year, the offices still were eerily empty – much to the frustration of its technical director Bill Clark, who was hoping to experience the buzz the purpose-built hive had been designed to foster. In just a fortnight Bill was due to hand over the pathology reins at NIAB to Dr Aoife O’Driscoll but his passion for his subject is still very much in evidence as he considers how things have changed during the course of his career. He says it’s been earmarked by ‘the cavalry always coming over the hill,’…
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Download PDF After more than 40 years in plant pathology, a career which Bill Clark describes as often ‘squatting in crops’, he finally hung up his wellies at the end of July. Earlier that month he sat down with CPM to reflect on what’s changed in that time, but most poignantly, what hasn’t. 40 years of progress and fungicide resistance strategies have stayed the same. By Lucy de la Pasture The new NIAB HQ in Cambridge, just a stone’s throw from its original location in Lawrence Weaver Way, opened just before the first lockdown was announced in March 2020. Even as the country was opening back up in July this year, the offices still were eerily empty – much to the frustration of its technical director Bill Clark, who was hoping to experience the buzz the purpose-built hive had been designed to foster. In just a fortnight Bill was due to hand over the pathology reins at NIAB to Dr Aoife O’Driscoll but his passion for his subject is still very much in evidence as he considers how things have changed during the course of his career. He says it’s been earmarked by ‘the cavalry always coming over the hill,’…
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