Dr Paul Neve

Paul Neve

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Life Sciences
Room TP 128
Warwick HRI
Wellesbourne
Warwick
CV35 9EF 		Tel: +44 24 7657 5843
Email: P.Neve@warwick.ac.uk
Weed Research

 

RESEARCH PROFILE


Agricultural weeds represent the ecological and evolutionary response of plants to the challenges and opportunities presented by human crop cultivation. Sustainable weed management practices can only be advocated when the ecological and evolutionary factors underpinning weed adaptation, establishment and persistence are fully understood. Studying these processes makes weedy plants excellent models to examine the impacts of human activity on plant ecological and evolutionary processes in the context of a major threat to global food security. Current research within the group is focused on:

  • The evolutionary ecology of herbicide resistance in grass weeds
  • Experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
  • Weed ecology and life history evolution
  • Climate change impacts on arable plants and crop-weed interactions

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    BACKGROUND


  • 1989 - 1992 BSc Plant Science, University of Liverpool
  • 1994 - 1998 PhD Plant Ecology, University of Liverpool
  • 1999 - 2005 Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
  • 2005 - 2007 Research Fellow, University of Warwick
  • 2007 - 2010 Senior Research Fellow, University of Warwick
  • 2010 - present Assistant Professor, University of Warwick

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    CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS


    • BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship (Laura Davies) Evolution of resistance to glyphosate in UK weedy plants., Funded by: BBSRC/Dow Agrosciences, Project Start Date: 03/10/2011 Project End Date: 02/10/2015
    • BBSRC Industrial CASE studentship (Bayer CropScience): Integrating molecular and modelling approaches to inform the evolution of herbicide resistance in Alopecurus myosuroides, Funded by: BBSRC/Bayer CropScience, Project Start Date: 01/10/2011 Project End Date: 30/09/2015
    • Modelling evolution and management of weed resistance in US cropping with GM herbicide resistant crops., Funded by: Syngenta, Project Start Date: 01/04/2102 Project End Date: 31/03/2014
    • Investigating the 'cost of adaptation' in weed populations with evolved resistance to glyphosate, Funded by: BBSRC Industrial CASE Partnership - Syngenta, Project Start Date: 01/10/2009 Project End Date: 01/10/2013
    • Life History Variation in Weed Populations, with Professor William E Finch-Savage - Warwick HRI, Funded by: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Project Start Date: 01/06/2010 Project End Date: 31/05/2013
    • Experimental evolution of resistance to herbicides in Chlamydomoas reinhardtii, Funded by: The Leverhulme Trust, Project Start Date: 01/09/2009 Project End Date: 01/09/2012

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    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


    • Neve, P.(2007) 'Challenges for resistance evolution and management: 50 years after Harper.' Weed Research 47 365 - 369 (0043-1737)
    • Neve P, Powles S B (2005) 'Recurrent selection with reduced herbicide rates results in the rapid evolution of herbicide resistance in Lolium rigidum ' Theoretical And Applied Genetics 110 (6), 1154 - 1166 (0040-5752)
    • Neve, P., Norsworthy, J. K., Smith, K. L., et al.(2011) 'Modeling glyphosate resistance management strategies for Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) in cotton' Weed Technology 25 (3), 335 - 343 (0890-037X) [article]
    • Neve, P., et al.(2011) 'Modelling evolution and management of glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus palmeri' Weed Research 51 (2), 99 - 112 (0043-1737) [article]
    • Vila-Aiub MM, Neve P, Roux F.(2011) 'A unified approach to the estimation and interpretation of resistance costs in plants' Heredity 107 386 - 394 (0018-067X)

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