Host: Grains Research, Development and Extension Communications Manager, Amber Atkinson
Guest Speaker: DPIRD Senior Plant Pathologist, Manisha Shankar

Western Australian grains researchers have wrapped up a ground-breaking project resulting in 11 new wheat lines with very high levels of resistance to yellow spot.

In this podcast, DPIRD Senior Plant Pathologist and Project Leader ManishaShankar discusses the project undertaken to get these wheat lines and how they could make future wheat varieties less susceptible to yellow spot.

In Australia, yellow spot is estimated to cause losses totalling $212 million per annum.

The lines developed by the research project have now been delivered to various breeding companies and are crucial genetic stocks for future breeding.

Manisha explains plant genetics and how it relates to disease resistance.  She also explains the interests that led her into the exciting field of genetics.

Episode links:
Click here to read: Research project yields new wheat lines to help withstand yellow spot.
Click here to read: More yellow spot resistance genes discovered
Click here to read: Germplasm enhancement for yellow spot resistance in wheat