Professional Memberships
- Institute of Biology
- Society of Chemical Industry
- Higher Education Academy (Network of deputy and pro vice-chancellors and vice-principals)
- ICA (Inter University consortium for agriculture and related sciences in Europe)
- UK Deans of Science Committee
- European Association of Potato Research
- European Association of Weed Research
Teaching Duties
- Post-Harvest physiology to agriculture and mechanisation students
- SXR 375 : A 15 Credit final year module for the Open University, Entitled "Plants, Pigments and Light"
Research Interests
- Post-Harvest physiology and Biochemistry of stored crops, especially potatoes and sugar beet
- The interaction of agrochemicals with plant growth and development, especially relating to the modes of action of herbicides and fungicides
- Herbicide resistance
Publications
- Reade, J., Milner, L. and Cobb, A.H. (2004) A role for Glutathione S-Transferase in herbicide resistance in grasses. Weed Science. 52, 145-151
- Reade, J. and Cobb, A.H. (2003) Can Picoxystrobin protect wheat from environmental stress? British Crop Protection Conference 2, 863-868
- Reade, J. and Cobb, A.H. (2002) Herbicides: Modes of Action and Metabolism. Weed Management Handbook (9th Edition) Ed, Naylor, R., Blackwell Publications. Chapter 8 , pp134-170
- Ibrahim, L., Spackman, V. and Cobb, A.H. (2001) An investigation of wound healing in sugar beet roots using light and fluorescence microscopy. Annals of Botany. 88 , 313-320.
- Spackman, V. and Cobb, A.H. (2001) An enzyme-based method for the rapid analysis of sucrose, glucose and fructose in sugar beet roots and the effects of impact damage post-harvest and in clamps. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 82 ,80-86
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Other Roles
- Current and recent external examinerships at SAC and UCD
- (undergraduate) and Durham (postgraduate)
- Institutional Auditor for the Quality Assurance Agency
- Member of the Defra Arable LINK Programme Management Committee
