Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Hons Option Leader for Agronomy

Research Interests

Non-combinable crops agronomy and physiology: potatoes, sugar beet, field scale vegetables
Seed potato production and management
Agronomy and physiology of combining peas
Integrated crop management and integrated farming systems, organic farming systems

Undergraduate Teaching

AGR107 British Agriculture
AEF221 Agricultural Marketing
AGR203 Arable Crops
AGR210 Agriculture II: Crop Production ML
AGR215 Principles of Agronomy and Crop Improvement ML
AGR221 Agriculture and the Environment
AGR307 Combinable Crops
AGR317 Non Combinable Crops(ML)
AGR329 Applied Crop Protection
AGR333 Crop Pests Field Course
AGR336 Crop Production in Organic Systems
AGR338 The Origins of Organic Farming Field Course
AGR340 Rural Enterprise Diversification(ML)
AGR342 Crop Product Quality and Marketing(ML)
BNS317 Plants as Food

• Tétard-Jones C, Edwards MG, Rempelos L, Gatehouse AMR, Eyre M, Wilcockson SJ, Leifert C. Effects of previous crop management, fertilization regime and watersupply on potato tuber proteome and yield. Agronomy 2013. In Press.
• Leifert C, Stanley R, Melchett P, Wilkinson A, Wilcockson SJ. Effect of fertilisation and variety on the nutritional composition of wheat inorganic cereal production systems in the United Kingdom. Journal of Science of Agriculture and Food 2012. In Preparation.
• Giotis C, Theodoropoulou A, Cooper J, Hodgson R, Shotton PN, Shiel RS, Eyre M, Wilcockson S, Markellou E, Liopa-Tsakalidis A, Volakakis N, Leifert C. Effect of variety choice, resistant rootstocks and chitin soil amendments on soil-borne diseases in soil-based, protected tomato production systems. European Journal of Plant Pathology 2012, 134(3), 605-617.
• Sabli HMZ, Gowing JW, Wilcockson SJ. Effects of Different Nutrient Formulations Supplied at Different Crop Growth Stages on Yield in Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) Plants Grown in Stonewool. In: 28th International Horticultural Congress on Science and Horticulture for People (IHC)/International Symposium on Greenhouse and Soilless Cultivation. 2012, Lisbon, Portugal: International Society for Horticultural Science.
• Alebrahim MT, Majd R, Rashed Mohassel MH, Wilcockson S, Baghestani MA, Ghorbani R. Evaluating the efficacy of pre- and post-emergence herbicides for controlling Amaranthus retroflexus L. and Chenopdium album L. in potato. Crop Protection 2012, 42, 345-350.
• Leifert C, Stanley R, Melchett P, Wilkinson A, Wilcockson SJ. Improving yield and bread making quality charactersitics of wheat in organic cearel production systems in the United Kingdom: effects of season, location and agronomic management. Journal of Science of Agriculture and Food 2012. In Preparation.
• Rempelos L, Cooper J, Wilcockson S, Eyre M, Shotton P, Volakakis N, Orr CH, Leifert C, Gatehouse AMR, Tétard-Jones C. Quantitative proteomics to study the response of potato to contrasting fertilisation regimes. Molecular Breeding 2012. In Press.
• Giotis C, Markellou E, Theodoropoulou A, Kostoulas G, Wilcockson S, Leifert C. The effects of different biological control agents (BCAs) and plant defence elicitors on cucumber powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii). Organic Agriculture 2012, 2(2), 89-101.
• van Dijk J, Cankar K, Hendriksen P, Beenen H, Zhu M, Scheffer S, Shepherd L, Stewart D, Davies H, Leifert C, Wilcockson S, Gruden K, Kok E. The identification and interpretation of differences in the transcriptomes of organically and conventionally grown potato tubers. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2012, 60(9), 2090-2101.
• Stanley R, Wilcockson SJ. Better Organic Bread: Integrating raw material and process requirements for organic bread production. Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK: HGCA, 2011. HGCA Project Report 474.
• Eyre MD, Critchley CNR, Leifert C, Wilcockson SJ. Crop sequence, crop protection and fertility management effects on weed cover in an organic/conventional farm management trial. European Journal of Agronomy 2011, 34(3), 153-162.
• Wilcockson SJ. Educating Beta: learning lessons from 'Beet the Best'. British Sugar Beet Review 2011, 79(1), 30-31.
• Eyre MD, Critchley CNR, Leifert C, Wilcockson SJ. Exploring weed species functional groups in explaining weed cover in relation to crop type and organic and conventional crop protection and fertility management. Weed Research 2011. In Preparation.
• Eyre MD, Critchley CNR, Leifert C, Wilcockson SJ. Previous crop, crop protection, fertility management and weed cover in winter wheat: implications for lower input management. Weed Science 2011. In Preparation.
• Ghorbani R, Wilcockson S, Koochecki A, Leifert C. Soil management for sustainable disease control: a review. In: Lichtfouse, E, ed. Organic Farming, Pest Control and Remediation of Soil Pollutants. Sustainable Agriculture Reviews Volume 1. London, New York: Springer Dordtrecht Heidelberg, 2009, pp.177-201.
• Ghorbani R, Wilcockson S. Reducing copper-based fungicide use in organic crop production systems. In: Cooper, J., Niggli, U., Leifert, C, ed. Handbook of Organic Food Safety and Quality. Abington Hall, Abington, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited, 2007, pp.392-412.
• Wilcockson SJ. UK Crop Production - Supply Chain Management. In: Bourlakis, M. and Weightman, P, ed. Food Supply Management Textbook. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp.62-82.
• Beaver T, Wilcockson S, Franks JR. An appraisal of the UK's outgoers' scheme. Farm Management 2003, 11, 513-529.
• Zarb J, Ghorbani R, Juntharathep P, Shotton P, Wilcockson S, Leifert C, Litterick AM, Bain RA, de Boer E, Halder F, Sellers M, Wolfe M. Control strategies for late blight in organic potato production. In: Crop Protection in Northern Britain. 2002, Dundee, Scotland.
• Dhital, B.K. and Wilcockson, S.J. Manipulating Physiological Age of Diffuse Light Stored Seed Potatoes in the Sub-Tropical Region: An Issue for Consideration. Lumle Seminar Paper No. 98/25. Kaski, Nepal: Agricultural Research Station Lumle 1999.
• Dhital BK, Wilcockson SJ. Promotion of diffused light storage of seed potatoes in the hills of Nepal: a review. Nepalese Horticulture 1999, 3(1), 56-70.
• Younger, A., Wilcockson, S.J. and Cain, P.J. Physical Performance of an Integrated Farming System; in Legumes in Sustainable Farming Systems. In: Occasional Publication no. 30, British Grassland Society; Ed. by D Younie, SAC, Aberdeen, 314-316. 1996.