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Brian McGuinness

Technologist - Horticulture Development Department

Research Interests

  • Mushroom crop productivity and industry support
  • Horticultural crop disease diagnostics
  • Plant Pathology
  • Valorisation of Mushroom Crop by-products

Current Projects

  • Beyond Peat (DAFM)
  • Detect- PNP (DAFM)
  • Mushroom services (Core)
  • Nurtur
  • Micro-Shift

Education

  • MSc(ind), Trinity College Dublin
  • MA Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin
  • Dip Bioanalysis, TU Dublin

Corbett, E., Grogan, H., McGuinness, B.W., Tumbure, A., Walsh, L., & Gaffney, M.T.
Real-time matric potential dynamics in peat casings amended with wood fibre and bark and their relationship to Agaricus bisporus yield and quality. Fungal Biology. 2025

Young, G., Corbett, E., Grogan, H., McGuinness, B.W., Walsh, L., & Gaffney, M.T.
The potential of Sitka spruce bark as an alternative to peat casing for mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) production. Horticulturae. 2023

Clarke, J., McGuinness, B.W., Fitzpatrick, D.A., Kavanagh, K., & Grogan, H.
Response of the mushroom pathogen Cladobotryum mycophilum to the fungicides prochloraz and metrafenone and two Bacillus-based biological control agents in mushroom crop trials.Crop Protection. 2021

Whelton, A., McGuinness, B., Grogan, H., & Baars, J-R.
Prunus laurocerasus – A crop walker’s guide to pests and diseases.
Teagasc Horticulture Development Department. 2019

Nemesio-Gorriz, M., McGuinness, B.W., Grant, J., Dowd, L., & Douglas, G.C.
Lenticel infection in Fraxinus excelsior shoots in the context of ash dieback. iForest – Biogeosciences and Forestry. 2016

McEvoy, A., O’Regan, F., Fleming, C.C., Moreland, B.P., Pollock, J.A., McGuinness, B.W., & Hodkinson, T.R.
Bleeding canker of horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in Ireland: incidence, severity and characterisation using DNA sequences and real-time PCR. Plant Pathology. 2015

McGuinness, B.
Climate change producing work for plant disease detectives.
Today’s Farm. 2015

McGuinness, B. & Grogan, H.
Horticulture plant pathology. TResearch. 2013

McGuinness, B.W.
Computer-supported sensory profiling analysis of three Agaricus cultivars.

Guinan, K.J., Cunningham, R.T., Meenagh, A., Gonzalez, A., Dring, M.M., McGuinness, B.W., Middleton, D., & Gardiner, C.M.
Signatures of natural selection and coevolution between killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and HLA class I genes.
Genes and Immunity. 2010.