Francine Govers
FrancineGovers,ProfessorofWageningenUniversity.Herexpertise:Genomics,Hostparasiterelationships,Mycology,Plantdiseases,Plantpathogenicfungi,Oomycota,Molecularplantpathology,Fungi,Hostpathogeninteractions,Phytophthorainfestans,Plantpathology,Plant-microbeinteractions.Shefocusesonthebiologyandpathologyofoomycetepathogens,inparticularthelateblightpathogenPhytophthorainfestansthatwasresponsiblefortheIrishpotatofaminein1845.ThemorethanhundredPhytophthoraspeciescausedevastatingdiseasesonnumerouscropsandornamentalsandhaveanenormouseconomicimpact.