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Richard Gutteridge

Cereal plant pathologist

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richard.gutteridge@rothamsted.ac.uk

Research programme Recent publications Research Reports

Research programme

Field-based research on cereals, mainly wheat, contributing to projects on biology and control of take-all (the main cause of 2nd-wheat syndrome) and epidemiology and risk analysis of fusarium ear blight.

Main collaborations within Rothamsted: Geoff Bateman (take-all and Fusarium); Kim Hammond-Kosack (wheat genetic improvement). Informal collaboration and support: Brian Kerry (cereal cyst nematodes); Kostya Kanyuka (Polymyxa and soil-borne viruses).

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Wheat Pathogenomics team

 

Outreach activities

Farmer consultations (through Rothamsted Research Association and personal contacts); agrochemical industry training on disease diagnosis; presentations to consultant groups.

 

Recent publications

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Self MM (2008). Effects of fluquinconazole and silthiofam, applied as seed treatments to single or consecutive crops of wheat, on take-all epidemic development and grain yields. Annals of Applied Biology 152, 243-254.

Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Bateman GL (2007). The potential on non-pathogenic Gaeumannomyces spp., occurring naturally or introduced into wheat crops or preceding crops, for controlling take-all in wheat. Annals of Applied Biology 150, 53-64.

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Cherbawy Y, Thomsett M, Nicholson P (2007). Infection of stem bases and grains of winter wheat by Fusarium culmorum and F. graminearum and effects of tillage method and maize-stalk residues. Plant Pathology 56, 604-615.

Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Bateman GL (2006). Effects of different cultivated or weed grasses, grown as pure stands or in combination with wheat, on take-all and take-all suppression in subsequent wheat crops. Plant Pathology  55, 696-704.

Freeman J, Ward E, Gutteridge RJ, Bateman GL (2005). Methods for studying population structure, including sensitivity to the fungicide silthiofam, of the cereal take-all fungus, Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici. Plant Pathology 54, 686-698.

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF (2005). Wheat rhizosphere interactions and natural suppression of take-all disease: effects of grass weeds and wheat cultivar on inoculum and disease. Aspects of Applied Biology 73, Roots and the Soil Environment, 155-162.

Gutteridge RJ, Zhang J-P, Jenkyn JF, Bateman GL (2005). Survival and multiplication of Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (the wheat take-all fungus) and related fungi on different wild and cultivated grasses. Applied Soil Ecology 29, 143-154.

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF (2004). Take-all and grain yields in sequences of winter wheat crops testing fluquinconazole seed treatment applied in different combinations of years. Annals of Applied Biology 145, 317-330.

Gutteridge RJ, Hornby D (2003). Effects of sowing date and volunteers on the infectivity of soil infested with Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici and on take-all disease in successive crops of winter wheat. Annals of Applied Biology 143, 275-282.

Gutteridge RJ, Bateman GL, Todd AD (2003). Variation in the effects of take-all disease on grain yield and quality of winter cereals in field experiments. Pest Management Science 59, 215-224.

 

Research Reports

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Self MM, Orson J (2006). Optimising the performance and benefits of take-all control chemicals. HGCA Project Report No.395.

Gutteridge RJ, Bateman GL (2006). Grass weeds, grass covers and take-all risk. Rothamsted Research Association News Letter, issue 22 June 2006.

Gutteridge RJ (2006). Take-all test takes guesswork out of second wheat. Farmer’s Weekly, 13 October 2006.

Bateman GL, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Spink J, McVittie J (2006). Take-all in winter wheat – management guidelines. HGCA publication, Autumn 2006.

Bateman GL, Freeman J, Gutteridge RJ, Jenkyn JF, Ward E (2003). Strategies for fungicidal control of take-all. HGCA Project Report No. 309. 76 pp.

Bateman GL, Jenkyn JF, Gutteridge RJ (2003). Optimising the benefits of fluquinconazole seed treatment in sequences of winter wheat crops. Proceedings of the BCPC Congress - Crop Science & Technology 2003, 2, 979-984.