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Griffith University: Research unveils the blight attacking Australian chickpeas

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Griffith University-led research is discovering the genetic diversity of Chickpea/Ascochyta Blight, the major pathogen threat to Australia’s billion-dollar chickpea industry. Published in Microbial Genomics, the collaboration with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, South Australian Research and Development Institute and Curtin University has catalogued the genetic sequences of the causal fungus Ascochyta rabiei […]