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#RESEARCH AREAS
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#Trade-off mitigation in plant immune responses
The genetic basis of disease interactions and resistance trade-offs in plants.
How plants leverage the microbiome to mitigate resistance trade-offs: microbiome competence.
How plant immunity is regulated at the population level: ecological competence.
#Pathogen-microbiome interactions
The microbiome as a reservoir for disease emergence and re-emergence
The role of mobile molecules in pathogen-pathogen and pathogen-microbiome interactions
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#Durable plant immunity in crops
Durable use of R genes in resistance breeding
Breeding for multiple disease resistance (MDR)
#CURRENT PROJECTS
Rational use of agricultural biodiversity in resistance breeding.
The genetic and molecular basis of disease interactions and resistance tradeoffs in cereals.
A field-metagenomics approach to trait discovery and monitoring of durable plant immunity.
Ecological effectors discovery from the cereal phyllosphere mirobiome.
The genetic basis of Fusarium head blight (FHB) complex assembly in cereals.
#RESOURCES
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#The 'Phy' Library: a collection of microbes inhabiting the cereal phyllosphere
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#dMorphX: resources for precision phenomics and micro-phenomics
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