Monday, 26th May Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference 2025

Dr Cathy Aime

• Innovative use of collections: A few case studies in Pucciniales   - Cathie Aime

Deciphering the intrinsic and extrinsic factors for husk rot disease epidemiology in macadamia - Shukti Rani Chowdhury
Investigating high-resolution proximal imaging and artificial intelligence for Hull rot detection in almonds - Tonya Wiechel
Monitoring fungicide resistance in Australian vineyards - Ismail Ahmed Ismail
The current situation of controlling Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 in Guangxi's banana industry, China - Jiaman Sun
Diversity of Colletotrichum species infecting Australian native plants: insights from state culture collections - Aindreeya Alcova
Viability PCR reagent: a novel tool for rapid quantitation of viable and intact microorganisms by qPCR - Brigitta Saul
Comparing qPCR and isolation methods to assess Eutypa lata infection in grapevine wounds - Tarita Furlan
Evaluation of UAV RGB imagery for high throughput phenotyping of cereal leaf blotches - A case study with yellow leaf spot of wheat - Janardhan Vignarajan
Emergence of downy mildew in cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) and its impact on seed production in New Zealand - Rui Zhao
Genetic diversity and population structure of field isolates of Ganoderma boninense Pat. from Indonesia. - Hadi Hendra
Investigating the impact of foliar phosphite (Foschek®) and Du-Wett® application on the water relations of kauri (Agathis australis) - Matthew Arnet
The effects of drought management practices on the soil food web in South Australian Broadacre cropping - Katherine Linsell
Developing Karnal bunt surveillance systems for Australia - Kiflu KT Tesfamicael
The role of fusarium acuminatum associated with vetch (vicia sativa) in western australia - Kithsiri W Jayasena
Evaluation of the efficacy of Tithonia diversifolia and Ageratum conyzoides liquid extracts on the growth and phytopathology of eggplant. Title of my presentation for the conference - Alice Virginie Dr TCHIAZE IFOUE
Common foliar diseases of crops in Champasak Province, Southern Laos - Montana Hickey
Detached bunch technique for investigating the fungal microbiome in pre-harvest grapes - Cathryn Todd
RNA biopesticides for next generation protection of crops and native plants - Anne Sawyer
Powdery Mildew records from Timor Leste. - Luisa De Fatima Soares Moniz
Exploring the potential of RNA Interference (RNAi) for controlling Phytophthora cinnamomi in avocado - Luciasih Agustini
The pathogenicity of Fusarium oxysporum isolates in ginger. - Andrea Matthews
Identifying the fungal associates of Tea shot hole borer, Euwallaceae perbrevis, in NSW - Conrad Trollip
The Role of Seed Potato Certification in Disease Control - Mia Novakovic

• Oxalic acid is associated with the pathogenicity of Botrytis cinerea in macadamia - Hariharan Ganeshamoorthy
• Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum species associated with citrus disease in Australia using a leaf-based bioassay - Weixia Wang
• Impact of fruit diseases on macadamia on-farm crop loss in Australian orchards - Ziyu Shao
• Investigating Myrtle Rust and Other Fungal Diseases on Agonis flexuosa - Eric K. Asare
• Hide and seek with black core rot in citrus - Zali I Mahony
• Pathogenic diversity of Pyrenophora teres f. maculata underpins the development of resistant barley varieties to Spot form net blotch (SFNB) in Australia - Aruni Buddhika Udugama Vithanage

• Fungicide resistance in the air! - Ismail Ahmed Ismail
• Spatiotemporal dynamics of fluxapyroxad in seed treated barley implications for fungicide resistance development - Arundhati Singh
• Detection of fungicide resistance in mungbean powdery mildew populations - Ayesha Senanayake
• Fitness of fungicide resistant Erysiphe necator and Plasmopara viticola - Cian R Hoban
• Characterisation of the genetic basis of fungicide resistance profiles in Gummy Stem Blight culture collections - Aastha Ranjan
• Fungicide management strategies to reduce saprophytic fungal staining of oaten hay windrows - Kylie Chambers
• Evaluating new fungicides and application timings for in-season management of pink rot in stored potatoes. - Phillip S Wharton

• Homeodomain (HD) locus as a strain-specific diagnostic for Ceratobasidium theobromae, causal agent of vascular-streak dieback of cocoa - Jacob Downs
• Identifying Seedborne Mycobiota in the Revitalised Australian Sesame Industry - Dante L. Adorada
• Assessment of grey mould contamination of wine grapes based on ergosterol analysis and detection of Botrytis antigens - Christopher C Steel
• Deciphering the intrinsic and extrinsic factors for husk rot disease epidemiology in macadamia - Shukti Rani Chowdhury
• Investigating high-resolution proximal imaging and artificial intelligence for Hull rot detection in almonds - Tonya Wiechel
• Biosecurity Queensland plant pathogen surveillance - David Lane
• Sensitivity of Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni from almond to four copper products - Tonya J Wiechel
• Monitoring fungicide resistance in Australian vineyards - Ismail Ahmed Ismail
• The current situation of controlling Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 in Guangxi's banana industry, China - Jiaman Sun
• Diversity of Colletotrichum species infecting Australian native plants: insights from state culture collections - Aindreeya Alcova
• Viability PCR reagent: a novel tool for rapid quantitation of viable and intact microorganisms by qPCR - Brigitta Saul
• Reevaluation of pepper (Capsicum spp.) germplasm for resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) - Hyeonseok Oh
• Fungicide resistance screening of a Botrytis cinerea population from Australian vineyards and development of qPCR-based assays to detect resistance associated mutations in field samples. - Ismail Ismail
• Bolstering the microbial army to combat stubble-borne disease in retained stubble farming. - Leela Rizal
• Comparing qPCR and isolation methods to assess Eutypa lata infection in grapevine wounds - Tarita Furlan
• Evaluation of UAV RGB imagery for high throughput phenotyping of cereal leaf blotches - A case study with yellow leaf spot of wheat - Janardhan Vignarajan
• Can RNA interference control fungal disease in crops? - Mark F Fisher
• Potential of weather-based prediction model for managing Botryosphaeria branch dieback in macadamia - Theophilus A Mensah
• Emergence of downy mildew in cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) and its impact on seed production in New Zealand - Rui Zhao
• Effects of Macrophomina phaseolina on the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi: Insights into disease resistance in sorghum - Manjeet .
• Impact of soil pH modification on disease suppression and health of oil palm: evaluating the role of liming in mitigating Ganoderma infection in a nursery study - Cu Ean Ong
• Genetic diversity and population structure of field isolates of Ganoderma boninense Pat. from Indonesia. - Hadi Hendra
• The Role of Seed Potato Certification in Disease Control - Mia Novakovic
• Use of Nature as sweetpotato virus symptoms.  - Priyaashna Kumar
• Investigating the impact of foliar phosphite (Foschek®) and Du-Wett® application on the water relations of kauri (Agathis australis) - Matthew Arnet
• The effects of drought management practices on the soil food web in South Australian Broadacre cropping - Katherine Linsell
• Developing Karnal bunt surveillance systems for Australia - Kiflu KT Tesfamicael
• Detection of Xylella fastidiosa in New Zealand indigenous plant collections held overseas by metagenomics - Sandra B. Visnovsky
• The role of fusarium acuminatum associated with vetch (vicia sativa) in western australia - Kithsiri W Jayasena
• In vitro effects of plant extracts and biocontrol agents on Phytophthora citrophthora and P. nicotianae, the causal agents of citrus brown rot - Teresa Prof Coutinho
• Exploring plant-pathogen interactions through a micro lens: Identifying microRNAs expressed during fungal infection - Chapa Manawaduge
• Evaluation of the efficacy of Tithonia diversifolia and Ageratum conyzoides liquid extracts on the growth and phytopathology of eggplant. Title of my presentation for the conference - Alice Virginie Dr TCHIAZE IFOUE
• Aerial spore dispersal patterns of grapevine trunk disease fungi in Australian vineyards - Tarita Furlan
• Common foliar diseases of crops in Champasak Province, Southern Laos - Montana Hickey
• Targeting agricultural threats: advanced molecular detection for managing critical plant pathogens  - Brigitta Saul
• Boosting agricultural economy and laboratory efficiency: molecular diagnostics solutions for Phytoplasma disease management  - Brigitta Saul
• Elucidating the distribution of Cryptovalsa ampelina in Australian vineyards - Tarita Furlan
• Development of a CRISPR-Cas Based Diagnostic Assay for Xanthomonas campestris campestris in Brassica Crops - Fridtjof Snijders
• Detached bunch technique for investigating the fungal microbiome in pre-harvest grapes - Cathryn Todd
• RNA biopesticides for next generation protection of crops and native plants - Anne Sawyer
• Powdery Mildew records from Timor Leste. - Luisa De Fatima Soares Moniz
• Exploring the potential of RNA Interference (RNAi) for controlling Phytophthora cinnamomi in avocado - Luciasih Agustini
• Sustainable approaches for managing potato early die. - Phillip S Wharton
• The pathogenicity of Fusarium oxysporum isolates in ginger. - Andrea Matthews
• Biological control of Sudden Decline Syndrome caused by Fusarium solani on Date Palm in the UAE using Endophytic Actinobacteria - Khaled A El-Tarabily
• Trichoderma longibrachiatum MR33, as an environmentally friendly fungicide, mitigated the damping-off disease induced by Pythium aphanidermatum in tomato plants. - Khaled A El-Tarabily
• Structured biographical and collection data for plant pathologists - Bevan S Weir
•  SURVEY OF ROOT ROT OF GUAR CROP IN SINDH - Dr.Ishrat Jahan
• Identifying the fungal associates of Tea shot hole borer, Euwallaceae perbrevis, in NSW - Conrad Trollip
• Morphological characteristics of Sclerotinia isolates from lentil and canola in South Australia - Marzena Krysinska-Kaczmarek
• Development of RNA biopesticides for controlling rust pathogens of cereal crops - Chris Mann
• Timing of infection and incidence of walnut blight, caused by Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis, in a semi-arid climate - Ke Wang
• Screening of kikuyu yellows and black spot resistance in kikuyu (Cenchrus clandestinus) cultivars - Jia Ling Vivien Tan

Dr Toni Chapman and Dr Bevan Weir

• Bacterial Culture Collections: Advancing Diagnostics and Safeguarding Biosecurity - Toni A Chapman
• Culture Collection data - Bevan S Weir

Spotlight Speaker 
Prof Teresa Coutinho

• Emerging plant pathogenic bacteria: new threats and opportunistic challenges - Teresa A Coutinho
• Etiology of rachis tip dieback of macadamia flowers in Australia - Xiaoxue Xu
• Neopestalotiopsis species as an emerging pathogen causing persimmon dieback in Australia - John Darby Taguiam
• Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Phytophthora cinnamomi across hosts and regions in New Zealand - Ashika A Prasad
• Phomopsis graft dieback disease in macadamia nurseries - Jahangir Khan

• How glyphosate and atrazine application affect white leaf spot (Neopseudocercosporella capsellae) epidemics on herbicide-resistant canola - YAN AI
• Controlling the mango dieback disease Lasiodiplodia theobromae in the United Arab Emirates by the use of endophytic actinobacteria - Khaled A El-Tarabily
• A Biological Intervention for the Rapid Stump Degradation of Basal Stem Rot-Affected Oil Palm - YUVARANI NAIDU RAJU NAIDU
• Pythium oligandrum promotes tomato development and has biocontrol potential against soil-borne pathogens that cause poor root growth of tomatoes.    - Minxiao Mr. Ma
• Biotic and abiotic factors regulating Verticillium dahliae inoculum levels in cotton soils - Gupta Vadakattu
• Biological control of soilborne fungal pathogens - Lachlan Dow
• Durability of microbial biological control products – Botrytis pathogens as a proof of concept - Marta Gallart

• Survey of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes in Northern Australia: Implications for Biosecurity and Crop Management - Yujuan (jady) Li
• Improving viral diagnostics in clonal grasses in Australian Post Entry Quarantine - Ruvini V Lelwala
• How to fix nematodes if you want an ID - Mike Hodda
• Investigating the presence of microbial endophytes in established asymptomatic tissue culture material - Hayley J Ridgway
• Streamlining diagnostics for horticulture seeds imported into Australia - Anjali Zaveri
• Coupling MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry diagnostics with reference collections  - Chris Nellessen
• National Diagnostics and Surveillance Protocols – current and future directions - Harsh Garg

• An in planta system for establishing latent infections of Botrytis cinerea in winegrapes for crop protection studies - Akeem O Taiwo
• Assessment of disease tolerance in wheat to tan spot and stagonospora nodorum blotch  - Robabeh Hosseini Ghavamabad
• Predicting and characterising disease resistance gene analogues across the Oryza genus  - Sabrina Morrison
• Precise image-based phenotyping of barley foliar diseases enhances the identification and genetic characterisation of quantitative resistance - Matthew Ulrich
• Multi-omic analysis identifies markers of introgression between Cicer arietinum (chickpea) and its wild relative Cicer echinospermum that contribute to increased Phytophthora root rot resistance. - Jonathan M Plett
• Optimising the use of Nanopore direct RNA reads to improve gene annotations in a crop plant under disease pressure - Jade Davis
• The CIMMYT Australia ICARDA Evaluation Contribution to Identify Adapted High-Yielding Wheat Lines with Genetic Resistance to Multiple Pathogens of Economic Importance to the Australian Grain Growing Regions - Laura Ruiz Espinosa