Protecting plants against fungal pathogens

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Plant diseases are becoming increasingly problematic in Canadian canola production resulting in reduced yieldsand economic losses. While current management tools include seed applied and foliar fungicides that are ofteneffective, timing of application, and their specific mode of action is sometimes lacking. Thus, there is a need tobetter understand how new seed treatment chemistries can be developed to protect plants from devastatingfungal pathogens. Further, improving plant resistance to disease is a desirable long-term strategy but hasproven extremely difficult to achieve, especially when multiple disease organisms are involved. BayerCropScience is committed to providing canola growers with long-term solutions to manage plant diseasethrough the development of new crop protection technologies. The aim of this Engage Plus project is to betterunderstand the genetic mechanisms that provide protection to canola against some of Canada's most prevalentfungal pathogens. The information gained from this project will allow Bayer CropScience to improvechemistry selection programs for experimental compounds and new canola varieties, and thereby shortening thetime it takes to bring innovative products to the market.