Disease management: Fungicide resistance found in WA barley

Updated February 12 2018 - 2:27pm, first published 2:06pm
Dr Fran Lopez-Ruiz leads the GRDC-supported and Curtin University-based Centre for Crop and Disease Management research team that has uncovered barley resistance in SFNB to some Group 3 DeMethylation Inhibitors fungicides.
Dr Fran Lopez-Ruiz leads the GRDC-supported and Curtin University-based Centre for Crop and Disease Management research team that has uncovered barley resistance in SFNB to some Group 3 DeMethylation Inhibitors fungicides.

FUNGICIDE resistance in the pathogen responsible for spot form of net blotch (SFNB) has been detected in barley in Western Australia.

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