[citation needed] He was awarded a Royal Scholarship to attend Imperial College London where he graduated with first class honours in botany;[2] he was a student of William Brown.
[2] He was the doctoral advisor of the British mycologist, Michael Francis Madelin, who had carried out pioneering research in slime moulds and conidial fungi.
[8] He was also the secondary advisor to the pioneering Ghanaian plant pathologist, George C. Clerk during his PhD studies.
He served as the honorary secretary of the Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) and the chairperson of the Plant Pathology Committee of the British Mycological Society (BMS).
[citation needed] Additionally, he was one of the earliest honorary members of the British Society for Plant Pathology.
[citation needed] The German Federal Republic awarded Wood the Otto-Appel-Denkmunze in 1978 at the third International Congress of Plant Pathology held in Munich.