Information on managing specific crop diseases
Cereal crops
The pages listed below cover how to manage specific foliar diseases in wheat, barley, oats and triticale.
For more information on managing cereal diseases contact Geoff Thomas, Kith Jayasena, Andrea Hills or Ciara Beard. For more information on cereal viruses contact Brenda Coutts (contact information at bottom of page).
- Smut and bunt diseases of cereal (biology, identification and management)
- Wheat streak mosaic virus and wheat curl mite
- Managing barley yellow dwarf virus and cereal yellow dwarf virus in cereals
Wheat
For information on how to manage specific foliar diseases in wheat refer to:
Rust
- Diagnosing stripe rust of wheat
- Diagnosing stem rust of wheat
- Diagnosing leaf rust of wheat
- Managing stem rust of wheat
- Managing stripe rust and leaf rust of wheat
- Implications of the known wheat leaf rust pathotypes in WA
Powdery mildew
- Powdery mildew in cereals
- Managing powdery mildew in wheat
- Foliar fungicide strategies for managing powdery mildew in wheat - 2016 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper
- Fungicides at seeding for management of powdery mildew in wheat- 2017 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper
- Wheat powdery mildew epidemiology and crop management options - 2019 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper
Variety disease ratings
Barley
For information on how to manage specific foliar diseases in barley refer to:
Net blotches in barley
- Managing net type and spot type net blotch of barley
- Yield and grain quality losses in barley varieties infected with spot type net blotch (STNB)
- Fungicides at seeding for management of spot type net blotch in barley- 2017 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper (scroll to second paper at this link)
- Management of barley net blotches in the face of fungicide resistance
Powdery mildew
Rust
- New barley leaf rust pathotype and implications
- “Where we are with Adult Plant Resistance varieties for barley leaf rust - is it worth spraying?” - 2018 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper
Loose smut
- Managing loose smut in barley
- Barley loose smut – control, variety susceptibility and effects on grain yield - 2019 GRDC Grains Research Updates paper
Variety disease ratings
Oats
For information on how to manage specific foliar diseases in oats refer to: