Molecular dissection of septoria blotch of oats

Curtin University

  • Project code: PRJ-005648

  • Project stage: Closed

  • Project start date: Friday, June 18, 2010

  • Project completion date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012

  • National Priority: FCR-Production of high-quality export-grade fodder

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Summary

To develop preliminary resources to enable the study of the pathogenicity in the oat Septoria blotch pathogen, Stagonospora avenae.

Program

Export Fodder

Research Organisation

Curtin University

Objective Summary

1. Developed methods to culture fungal isolates and infect oats in the growth chamber
2. Preliminary analyses of culture filtrate reactions on selected oat cultivars
3. Genome sequence assembly and preliminary annotation