Amber’s work focuses on characterising disease resistance genes from the diverse wild relatives of crops, which often harbour untapped diversity that can be deployed in the field to improve yield. She carried out such work on primitive cultivars and wild relatives of bread wheat during her PhD at the John Innes Centre. She is now applying these skills to new pathosystems  to identify novel sources of resistance to Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) for deployment in Africa, as well as applying bioinformatics approaches to identify resistance to Phythopthera infestans, the late blight pathogen, in potato (Solanum spp.) and its relatives.