Research finds somered warning flags' in the vineyard

摘要

FUNGICIDE RESISTANCE in Australian vineyards is not at crisis levels but, as Barbara Hall puts it, there are 'red warning flags all over the place'.Hall, a pathologist and Senior Research Scientist with the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), is leading a collaborative national project designed to determine the incidence and severity of resistant fungal populations of the big three diseases (powdery mildew, downy mildew and botrytis), better understand how resistance develops, and work out the best response.