UKCPVS Stakeholder Event 2023

The UK Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey (UKCPVS) has monitored cereal rusts and mildews in the UK for over 50 years (since 1967), detecting and warning industry and growers of new races of disease emerging on resistant varieties.

Managed by NIAB and funded by AHDB and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), UKCPVS receives infected cereal leaf samples from agronomists, trials officers and researchers.

From these samples, pathogen isolates are selected and tested to check their virulence against wheat and barley varieties.

The testing can detect new races of cereal pathogens capable of causing disease on previously resistant cereal varieties.

Targeted at breeders, crop scientists and technical agronomists, the stakeholder event reported on the latest UKCPVS results.

It also featured additional pathology papers that look at cereal diseases from a national and international perspective.

Visit the UKCPVS home page for project information, including reports and previous events.

Programme

10:00am Opening remarks
John Lucas, Rothamsted Research (event Chair)

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10:05am UKCPVS reports from the 2022 season
Charlotte Nellist and Amelia Hubbard, NIAB/UKCPVS

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Watch presentation on reports from the 2022 season

11:50am Wheat IPM strategies in Denmark

Lise Jørgensen, Aarhus University

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Watch wheat IPM strategies in Denmark discussion

12:10pm Evolutionary biology of pathogens

Nichola Hawkins, NIAB

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Watch presentation on the evolutionary biology of pathogens

12:30pm Fusarium head blight resistance

Paul Nicholson, JIC

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Watch the fusarium head blight resistance

12:50pm Rust management in the UK 

Aoife O’Driscoll, NIAB

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Watch discussion on rust management

1:10pm Recommended Lists and the UKCPVS
Catherine Harries, AHDB

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Watch video on Recommended Lists and the UKCPVS

1:30pm Closing remarks
John Lucas, Rothamsted Research (event Chair)