Crop Disease Podcast
Constantly dealing with disease outbreaks on your paddock? Sprayed a fungicide lately that just didn’t seem to work? Or perhaps trying to catch up on some agronomy while on the move? Join Megan Jones from the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) as she interviews researchers, growers and agronomists on all things crop disease from across the Australian grain growing region. The CCDM is a national research centre co-supported by Curtin University and the Grains Research and Development Corporation.
Crop Disease Podcast
Sclerotinia: how to manage a disease that has more than 400 different plant hosts
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CCDM
Canola - what a break crop! It can be so profitable. But no crop is perfect, and canola sure has its problems. One of them being Sclerotinia Stem Rot.
In this podcast Megan Jones talks to CCDM sclerotinia researcher Dr Mark Derbyshire on his latest published research that confirms the pathogen causing sclerotina has the ability to infect more than 400 different plants. Mark talks about why this is not such a bad thing...
Nutrien agronomist Kyran Brooks also features on the show, discussing management of the disease for the coming season in his region - in Great Southern WA, and why this disease is so difficult to manage.