Conferences / Workshops
2018 Canola Pathology Workshop
National Meeting on Diseases of Canola
University of Melbourne, Parkville
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Welcome and Introduction(Alex Idnurm)
Session I: Diseases of canola (Chair: Don McCaffery, NSW DPI)
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02 | Andrew Ware (SARDI) & Andrea Hills (DPIRD) Ciara Beard (DPIRD) Joop Van Leur (NSW DPI) |
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Session II: Basic research into canola diseases (Chair: Kate Light, Dow)
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04 | Josh Koh (AgVic)
Rimbaud (CSIRO) | Drone technologies for plant phenotyping Review of NBGIP traits Modelling pathogen populations in wheat canopies – can it be applied to blackleg and Sclerotinia in canola? Spatial deployment of R genes in Canola Use of new gene disruption technology to understand blackleg disease |
Session III: Sclerotinia (Chair: Matt Denton-Giles, CCDM)
| 01 02 03 | Blake Gontar (SARDI) Lars Kamphuis (CCDM) Kurt Lindbeck (NSW DPI) & Ravjit Khangura (DPIRD) | Sclerotinia in canola on the lower Eyre Peninsula – findings from 2017 Resistance to Sclerotinia Stem Rot in Brassica napus Major findings for Sclerotinia control from the National Canola Pathology Project and where to go next |
Session IV: Blackleg disease (Chair: Wayne Burton, Seednet)
| 01 02 03 04 | John Kirkegaard (CSIRO) Susie Sprague (CSIRO) Ken McKee (Syngenta) Art Diggle (DPIRD) | Update and outcomes from the Canola optimisation project Upper canopy infection – flowering, yield and fungicide control options Miravis – a new chemistry for controlling blackleg Blackleg CM app – commercial release |
Session V: Industry related issues (Chair: Randall Wilksch, GRDC)
01 * 02 | Angela Van de Wouw (UM) & Steve Marcroft (MGP) Angela Van de Wouw (UM) Steve Marcroft (MGP) | Report of Industry and Breeder perspective on usefulness R groupings of canola cultivars A review of the implementation of rotation of resistance genes Resistance groups in the field – where to next? |
General Discussion and Wrap up (Barb Howlett)
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