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Year of election: | 2001 |
Section: | Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences |
City: | Hertfordshire |
Country: | Great Britain |
Main areas of research: The chemical ecology of interactions between insects, between insects and their plant or animal hosts, and between plants eventually for management of pests. This specifically involves the chemical characterisation of molecular structures for semiochemicals via synthesis and spectroscopy and includes the first identification of aphid, mosquito and sandfly reproductive pheromones.