Robert Sutherst

Program Focus

Global Pest & Disease Modeling

Appointments

Emeritus Entomologist
CSIRO
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Biography

Robert led the team that developed the CLIMEX (http://www.hearne.com.au/products/climex/) and DYMEX (http://www.hearne.com.au/products/dymex/) models to address biosecurity and climate change risks posed by a wide range of pests and weeds in particular.

Content from Robert Sutherst

Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research
Potential Global Crop Pest Distributions Using CLIMEX: HarvestChoice Applications
CLIMEX: Predicting the Effects of Climate on Plants and Animals: User Guide

Author's Events

Without Adequate Funding, Deadly Wheat Disease Could Threaten Global Food Supplies, U of M Scientists Say

April, 2013
Source: University of Minnesota Press Release
Participants:
Philip Pardey, Jason Beddow, Darren Kriticos, Terry Hurley, Robert Sutherst

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New Strains Of Common Wheat Diseases May Threaten Global Food Supplies In The Coming Years, Researchers Warn
Planet Save
April 15, 2013

"The study, published in the current edition of the journal Science, examines how Ug99 – new virulent forms of stem rust first found in Uganda in 1999—could continue its movement across Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. It threatens food supplies for millions of people who depend on wheat and other small grains. Scientists have developed new wheat varieties with some resistance to the deadly disease, but the disease evolves and mutates into new forms, requiring new resistant varieties to be developed. "

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Science magazine: Global research to control stem rust disease saves wheat farmers losses worth US $1.12 billion per year

April, 2013
Source: CIMMYT
Participants:
Philip Pardey, Jason Beddow, Darren Kriticos, Terry Hurley, Robert Sutherst

"A study just published in Science by scientists from the University of Minnesota, CSIRO, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and CIMMYT shows that research to control the wheat disease known as stem rust during 1961-2009 has added 6.2 million tons annually to world wheat harvests, worth US $1.12 billion per year at 2010 prices."

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