F. Hutton

Detection and quantification of the 120 bp insert in the CYP51 upstream region of the wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici associated with azole fungicide resistance using digital droplet PCR

A ddPCR is developed to accurately detect the insert in individual isolates and to quantify in field populations and reveals how the Irish Z. tritici population has changed, with high variability in its frequency originally observed in the mid-2010 replaced by a relatively stable frequency at approximately 5% since fro...