Becca Testa

Becca is a PhD student in the Borrill lab.

Her research project focuses on the timing of wheat leaf senescence, which is linked to wheat grain yield and protein content. Becca aims to better understand the regulation of senescence by transcription factors, through identifying new transcriptional regulators of senescence and understanding potential coordination between known transcription factors.

Before her PhD, Becca completed a BA in Natural Sciences and an MPhil in Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Her MPhil project investigated the polar positioning of chloroplasts in bundle sheath cells of C4 plants. Becca also completed a summer placement at Rothamsted Research, characterising grain traits of a soft wheat mapping population.