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Dale Walters is Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh. His research interests included induced resistance to plant pathogens, novel approaches to plant disease control, and plant-pathogen interactions. For 35 years he taught Plant Biotic Interactions, Plant Pathology and Plant Responses to Stress, to final year undergraduates. He was Head of the the Plant Biology Department from 1997 to 2003 and leader of the Crop Protection research team until his retirement in 2016.
He has written two textbooks (Plant Defense: warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores, and parasitic plants and Physiological Responses of Plants to Attack ) and has edited three others (Induced Resistance for Plant Defence, Disease Control in Crops, and Molecular Biology in Crop Protection). He has also written a popular science book - Fortress Plant: how to survive when everything wants to eat you, OUP, 2017).
Dale Walters did his undergraduate degree at Wye College, University of London, and his PhD at Lancaster University. He was awarded a DSc from Lancaster University in 1999, and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Dale is currently writing another popular science book and is also in the process of writing a book for children between the ages of 9 and 12.
He lives in Prestwick on the west coast of Scotland with his wife, two dogs and two cats.
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