Joan Moore (phytopathologist)

After completing her PhD, she returned to research under Glynne on wheat eyespot, showing that the disease had become widely distributed in the UK.

[2][3] In 1951, as Secretary of the laboratory's Publications Sub-Committee, she was involved in the foundation of the journal Plant Pathology.

In this role, she guided global policy on assessing disease in plants via advising the United Nations.

[2][3] In 1973, she obtained a senior position within the newly created Chief Scientist's Group at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries headquarters in London, where she managed ministry-funded research on arable crops and plant sciences.

[2] She served on various committees of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany from 1965, holding a position on its council from 1980 until her death.