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Analysis of the samples was coordinated by Curtin University-based Fran Lopez-Ruiz, project lead for the Australian Fungicide Resistance Extension Network.

Dr Lopez-Ruiz agrees the best approach is for growers to shift to newer barley cultivars with improved genetic resistance to NFNB, and to adopt agronomic disease-management practices including rolling or grazing barley stubble and planting non-barley crop rotations.

Growers wanting to limit the chances of fungicide resistance developing can follow AFREN’s Fungicide Resistance Five principles: