Illustrated children’s book ‘Aphid Attack!’ promotes plant health 17th March 2021
However, a collaboration between one of our PhD students, Josh Joyce, and an illustration student, Lauren Harris continued independently beyond this formal finish and led to an engaging children’s book highlighting the importance of plant health.
The illustrative book tells the story of Billy and his encounter with a plant scientist working to prevent wheat being attacked by aphids.
As part of the International Year of Plant Health, the formal collaboration focused on topics within our Plant Health research programme.
PhD student Josh was one of our researchers who got involved with the project. In February 2020 Josh spoke to second year illustration students about his research. Josh works on investigating how plants respond to insect attack and he focusses on understanding the signalling mechanisms involved in plant defences against aphids.