Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
Australian wheat crops are under attack from a potentially debilitating fungal disease, which has developed resistance to some of the most common fungicides. The [New South Wales] Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and Charles Sturt University (CSU) have identified fungicide resistant septoria tritici blotch (STB) in a number of crops.
DPI’s Dr Andrew Milgate said this is the 1st record of a wheat pathogen developing fungicide resistance in Australia. “Septoria tritici blotch is a
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