Fighting Fusarium
Thursday, 09 August, 2001
Scientists at CSIRO Plant Industry are examining cotton varieties with improved resistance to the devastating fungal disease, Fusarium wilt. Fusarium was first confirmed in Australia in 1993 and is a serious threat to the $2 billion a year cotton industry.
Using the multiple approaches of traditional breeding, gene technology and studying native cottons CSIRO set out to address the problem. "So far we have identified some existing cultivars of cotton including Sicala V-2 and Sicot 189, that appear to have some resistance to Fusarium wilt," says Dr Greg Constable, leader of the cotton research team at Narrabri. "We are using micro-array analysis to identify which genes are in use when the cotton is infected by Fusarium wilt."
Item provided courtesy of Science Industry
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