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from the University of Melbourne’s School of Botany, each variety of canola has been traditionally bred to incorporate different resistance genes that protect against infection from the fungus, but the blackleg fungus can evolve very quickly by gaining, losing or mutating genes to overcome these disease resistant genes. Ms Howlett said that although the blackleg fungus can never be eradicated, farmers can stay “one step ahead� of it as her team and colleagues from state departments of agriculture have discovered while monitoring the disease at 36 sites across Australia. “After canola harvesting in November/December we collect the disease-infested crop stubble and analyse the fungus to identify diseasecausing genes and their mechanism
of action,� Ms Howlett said. In 2011 the researchers observed that although yields were not diminished, commonly grown canola cultivars in the Eyre Peninsula region had high levels of blackleg disease. This region experienced $30 million in canola crop losses in 2003. As a result, the research team produced a fact sheet for farmers warning them not to grow these cultivars, recommending alternative cultivars to sow in the 2012 growing season. This advice was taken up widely by farmers and trial sites showed the banned cultivars suffered severe losses but the recommended alternative cultivars did not. Calculations from subsequent harvests now show the recommendations saved farmers at least $18 million in crop losses.
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AFTER working with farmers, scientists have found a way to predict and prevent a speciďŹ c disease in canola crops which will save farmers at least $18 million. Scientists from the University of Melbourne and Horshambased Marcroft Grains Pathology have developed an extensive disease monitoring and management program, funded by the Grains Research and Development Research Corporation, which helps predict and prevent the devastating blackleg fungal disease in canola. Each year, Australia’s canola industry is threatened by the blackleg fungus (pictured), a wind-borne pathogen that causes the most signiďŹ cant yield loss to canola crops worldwide. According to Barbara Howlett
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