Research Probes Solutions For Canola Sclerotinia

Sclerotinia stem rot costs western and southern canola growers around $59 million dollars in crop losses annually. In today’s podcast, Dr Lars Kamphuis from the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) shares the latest research on pre-breeding efforts to develop resistant varieties.

Supported by the GRDC, researchers from the CCDM have sourced diverse canola genotypes from around the globe in a bid to discover germplasm with better genetic resistance.

Contact

Carole Kerr, CCDM
carole.kerr@curtin.edu.au

More information

• CCDM Sclerotinia hub
• GRDC Grains Research Update papers
• Sclerotinia Stem Rot in Canola fact sheet
• GRDC Western Region Canola GrowNotes™
• DPIRD Sclerotinia hub
• NVT Online