This study follows on from a previous showing that binary mixtures of wheat cultivars affect the evolution Zymoseptoria tritici populations within field epidemic beginning (t1) to end (t2) growing season. Here, we focused impact interseason sexual reproduction this evolution. We studied susceptible and resistant (carrying Stb16q, recently broken-down resistance gene) in proportions 0.25, 0.5 0....

Two key decisions that need to be taken about a fungicide treatment programme are (i) the number of applications that should be used per crop growing season, and (ii) the dosage that should be used in each application. There are two opposing considerations, with control efficacy improved by a higher number of applications and higher dose, and resistance management improved by a lower number of ...