Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 31/10/2025Equally stoked to check out the UBC botanical garden and have a look at all their kiwifruit vines!! They have a gorgeous and incredibly comprehensive Asian garden section planted within a native coastal forest. 030
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 31/10/2025Delighted to present on behalf of the BENEFIT project in the Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Systems showcase @ Cultivating Resilience summit this week! (+ a lightening talk + a poster, for completeness' sake...) 🦠🌱 160
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 04/02/2025Great to see this preprint out, based on Haileigh Patterson's MSc work with me, Matt, & Jay! 🥝🌿 091
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 06/01/2025Stoked to have my picture on the February cover of Plant, Cell & Environment! Massive win for Psa enthusiasts everywhere 🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 051
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 25/10/2024The spread of these effector loss variants is currently limited, and they appear unlikely to cause more severe symptoms than the current population. We recommend ongoing genome biosurveillance in orchards to enable early detection and management of variants of interest. 110
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 25/10/2024We carried out pathogenicity and competition assays to understand the risk of these HopF1c loss variants spreading & revisited the orchards these isolates emerged in for further surveillance. 110
Lauren Hemara @hemara.nz · 25/10/2024We've carried out sampling across New Zealand's main kiwifruit growing regions, focusing on commercial monocultures of green-fleshed 'Hayward' and yellow-fleshed 'Zesy002' - our Psa3 population has a star-shaped core SNP phylogeny, indicative of rapid expansion from a clonal origin 🌟 121