Dr
Hossein Golzar
Research Scientist
My role in the department
Hossein is a research scientist who is working on genetic improvement for disease resistance with Grains Research & Industry Innovation. His current research is on cereal disease resistance, specialised on phenotyping for resistance to septoria nodorum blotch and powdery mildew on wheat.
My background
As a plant pathologist with over 28 years’ experience on plant disease resistance and plant disease diagnostics, Hossein has worked on sources of resistance to cereal fungal diseases, and identification of plant pathogens, specialised on fungal taxonomy related to plant diseases. He is currently working with the cereal pathology team, providing a plant disease diagnostic service for local agricultural industries in WA.
Projects
- Genetic improvement - disease resistance
- Increasing resistance of wheat to nodorum blotch and powdery mildew.
- Developing improved and robust phenotyping for wheat nodorum blotch at the adult plant stage in the field and under controlled environment conditions.
- Developing improved and robust phenotyping for wheat powdery mildew at the adult plant stage under controlled environment conditions.
- Providing support for conducting, inoculating and rating of other field and glasshouse trials
Key Expertise
Improved sources of resistance to nodorum blotch and powdery mildew, supporting wheat breeding for improving resistance to main fungal diseases in commercial wheat varieties in WA
Qualifications
- PhD in Plant Pathology, 1999
- MSc in Plant Pathology, 1988
