Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP) - University of Sydney: Delivering genetic tools and knowledge required to breed wheat and barley with resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust
Investment
GRDC Code: UOS1801-004RTX
Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP) - University of Sydney: Delivering genetic tools and knowledge required to breed wheat and barley with resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust
Wheat and barley rusts have the potential to cause significant production losses in Australia. Although fungicides control rusts, they do not provide complete control in highly susceptible cultivars. Genetic resistance therefore remains the foundation of integrated rust control. This project exploits and builds on the previous achievements and investments by continuing and expanding efforts to find new rust resistance genes to achieve durable control: to leaf rust, stem rust and stripe rust in wheat and to the exotic stripe rust pathogen in barley.
The work will allow:
- breeders with access to and utilising closely linked molecular markers for cloned genes conferring APR to develop new varieties with improved rust resistance
- breeders and pre-breeders using new knowledge and understanding of the value of single and multiple APR genes across different genetic backgrounds and environments to generate new varieties with durable resistance
- breeders access to germplasm and marker resources for exotic rust types to ensure preparedness of the industry in the event of an incursion.
- Project start date:
- 01/01/2018
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2022
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Organisation
- University of Sydney
- Region:
- North, South, West
- Project status
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Completed
GRDC News
Reaping the benefits of monitoring cereal rust...
08 Nov 2023
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First reports of wheat stripe rust for...
29 Aug 2023
The first detection of stripe rust on 7 July this year was about nine weeks...
Identifying pathotypes provides basis of rust control...
01 Nov 2022
Cereal rust pathotypes (aka races or strains) are isolates of rust that differ in their...
Fungicide insensitivity detected in barley leaf rust...
17 Aug 2022
A key to the success of pathogenic microbes in causing disease is the ability to...
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Update papers
- 19 Jul 2022, Northern region wheat stripe rust epidemic in 2021 - learnings for 2022 - GRDC
- 21 Feb 2022, Wheat stripe rust epidemic in 2021 – learnings for 2022 - GRDC
- 18 Aug 2021, Cereal disease update 2021 - GRDC
- 15 Feb 2021, Wheat rust developments - new stripe rust pathotypes with implications for wheat (common and durum) and triticale; pathotypes of leaf rust and virulence for resistance gene Lr24 - GRDC
Podcasts
Stripe rust outlook for 2022 - GRDC
05 Apr 2022Project code. UOS1801-004RTX Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP) - University of Sydney: Delivering genetic tools and knowledge required to...
