Dr. Daniel Joseph Leybourne

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsOrganismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems,Ecology of Land Use
KeywordsMulti-trophic interactions, Pest Suppression, Symbiosis, Sustainable Agriculture, Agro-ecology

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityBelfast
InstitutionAgri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI)
InstituteSustainable Agri-Food Sciences Division

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Emily Poppenborg MartinInstitut für Geobotanik, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023DJ Leybourne, M Ramsden, S White, R Wang, H Huang, C Xie, P Yang: On-line decision support systems, remote sensing and AI applications for wheat pests. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2023
2022Daniel J Leybourne, Petra Melloh, Emily A Martin: Common facultative endosymbionts do not influence sensitivity of cereal aphids to pyrethroids. In: Agricultural and Forest Entomology, doi.org/10.1111/afe.12539, 2022,
2022DJ Leybourne, GI Aradottir: Common resistance mechanisms are deployed by plants against sap-feeding herbivorous insects: insights from a meta-analysis and systematic review. In: Scientific Reports, 12, 2022, 17836
2022Daniel J Leybourne, Kate E Storer, Pete Berry, Steve Ellis: Development of a pest threshold decision support system for minimising damage to winter wheat from wheat bulb fly, Delia coarctata. In: Annals of Applied Biology, 180, 2022, 118-131
2022DJ Leybourne, TA Valentine, K Binnie, A Taylor, AJ Karley, JIB Bos: Drought stress increases the expression of barley defence genes with negative consequences for infesting cereal aphids. In: Journal of experimental botany, 73, 2022, 2238-2250
2021DJ Leybourne, KF Preedy, TA Valentine, JIB Bos, AJ Karley: Drought has negative consequences on aphid fitness and plant vigor: Insights from a meta-analysis. In: Ecology and Evolution, 11, 2021, 11915-11929
2021C Escudero-Martinez, DJ Leybourne, JIB Bos: Plant resistance in different cell layers affects aphid probing and feeding behaviour during non-host and poor-host interactions. In: Bulletin of Entomological Research, 111, 2021, 31-38
2020DJ Leybourne, TA Valentine, JIB Bos, AJ Karley: A fitness cost resulting from Hamiltonella defensa infection is associated with altered probing and feeding behaviour in Rhopalosiphum padi. In: Journal of Experimental Biology, 223, 2020,
2020F Pickering, S White, S Ellis, L Collins, I Corkley, D Leybourne, S Kendall, M Newbert, R Pphillips: Integrated Pest Management of Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle in Oilseed Rape. In: Outlooks on Pest Management, 31, 2020, 284-290
2020KF Preedy, MAJ Chaplain, DJ Leybourne, G Marion, AJ Karley: Learning-induced switching costs in a parasitoid can maintain diversity of host aphid phenotypes although biocontrol is destabilized under abiotic stress. In: Journal of Animal Ecology, 89, 2020, 1216-1229
2020DJ Leybourne, JIB Bos, TA Valentine, AJ Karley: The price of protection: a defensive endosymbiont impairs nymph growth in the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi. In: Insect Science, 27, 2020, 69-85
2019DJ Leybourne, TA Valentine, JAH Robertson, E Pérez-Fernández, AM Main, AJ Karley, JIB Bos: Defence gene expression and phloem quality contribute to mesophyll and phloem resistance to aphids in wild barley. In: Journal of Experimental Botany, 70, 2019, 4011-4026