Information regarding potato common scab is available through the Cornell University Vegetable MD Online site.

The Streptomyces scabies 87-22 genome sequence is available through the StrepDB Streptomyces Annotation Server and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Prior to coming to Memorial University, Dr. Bignell was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Rosemary Loria in the Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University. Dr. Loria is now Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida.