Alessandra Learmount

PhD student at the University of Cambridge funded by the BBSRC & Shuttleworth Scholarship.

My PhD is a collaboration between the Department of Pathology, the Crop Sciences Centre and IRRI (Philippines). It explores how to enhance rice yields through harnessing of the beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis. I work with crop breeders to ensure my work remains commercially relevant and can be translated beyond pure academia.