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Oliver Buchannon
Alyssa Martino

PhD in Molecular Plant Pathology from The University of Sydney | Postdoctoral Researcher at Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens


Robigalia Roundup LXXXIX: The pathogen that started a famine and still costs USD 10 billion a year

Robigalia Roundup LXXXIX: The pathogen that started a famine and still costs USD 10 billion a year

Plus, a chance to author an international pest ID guide, and a Cornell PhD student hunting durable resistance genes

Jul 20, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVIII: FAO wants forestry institutions to apply as official Reference Centres

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVIII: FAO wants forestry institutions to apply as official Reference Centres

Plus, the pathogen that jumped an ocean from Californian oaks to British larch, and a review warning Southern Hemisphere forests are next

Jul 13, 2026

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5 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVII: The rust about to be released on one of Australia's worst weeds

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVII: The rust about to be released on one of Australia's worst weeds

Plus, an imaging system that catches a wheat pathogen before symptoms show, and a chestnut disease that lives a double life

Jul 6, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVI: The rice pathogen that thrives as the world warms

Robigalia Roundup LXXXVI: The rice pathogen that thrives as the world warms

Plus: cold-induced rust resistance in wheat, and a new network for early-career plant pathologists

Jun 22, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXV: Machine learning can spot scab resistance before the fungus even shows up

Robigalia Roundup LXXXV: Machine learning can spot scab resistance before the fungus even shows up

Plus: a wood-rotting bracket fungus, and a researcher training the next generation of African plant pathologists

Jun 15, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXIV: The plant receptor that fools a pathogen into attacking the wrong target

Robigalia Roundup LXXXIV: The plant receptor that fools a pathogen into attacking the wrong target

Plus: the oomycete behind 140 years of copper dependence, and a Colombian researcher chasing a cleaner alternative

Jun 8, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXIII: Tell your students about these funding deadlines

Robigalia Roundup LXXXIII: Tell your students about these funding deadlines

Plus: coffee leaf rust meets its match, and a Penn State PhD on microbiomes and maize

Jun 1, 2026

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7 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXII: Get your research in front of 10,000 plant pathologists

Robigalia Roundup LXXXII: Get your research in front of 10,000 plant pathologists

Plus: the honey bees carrying rust spores, and a wilt pathogen with more than 450 hosts

May 25, 2026

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7 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXXI: Nature Portfolio wants your plant disease research

Robigalia Roundup LXXXI: Nature Portfolio wants your plant disease research

Plus: a host jump paper rewriting how we think about emerging diseases, and Rice black-streaked dwarf virus

May 18, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXX: International Day of Plant Health

Robigalia Roundup LXXX: International Day of Plant Health

Plus the grey mould costing growers $100 billion a year, and a Cambridge researcher screening yeasts to fight it

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXIX: An internal alarm system nobody knew existed

Robigalia Roundup LXXIX: An internal alarm system nobody knew existed

Plus a fungus costing wheat farmers billions, and a genomics researcher tackling it head-on

May 4, 2026

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6 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXVIII: Fields of Remembrance

Robigalia Roundup LXXVIII: Fields of Remembrance

Plus Northern corn leaf blight, bacterial pathogens of poppy, and a PhD candidate from Florida

Apr 27, 2026

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5 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXVII: Anniversary of Robigalia

Robigalia Roundup LXXVII: Anniversary of Robigalia

Plus new training events for coding and research, and meet the pathogen behind cacao black pod disease

Apr 20, 2026

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4 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXVI: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellowships open

Robigalia Roundup LXXVI: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellowships open

PLUS the bacterium blocking Europe's olive trees from the inside

Apr 13, 2026

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11 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXV: Magnaporthe oryzae, the world's most important fungal pathogen

Robigalia Roundup LXXV: Magnaporthe oryzae, the world's most important fungal pathogen

PLUS AMS grants for early-career mycologists, BMS committee openings, and jobs across three continents

Apr 6, 2026

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11 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXIV: A fungus with 400+ hosts and the researcher fighting back

Robigalia Roundup LXXIV: A fungus with 400+ hosts and the researcher fighting back

Plus new jobs, scholarships, and new opportunities for ECRs

Mar 30, 2026

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10 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXIII

Robigalia Roundup LXXIII

🌾 Help shape the future of Robigalia, recent developments in developing resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, and meet Saif Ullah

Mar 23, 2026

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10 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXII

Robigalia Roundup LXXII

Resurrect Bio Closes Initial $8M Series A, ten new jobs listed, and meet Francis Mirara

Mar 16, 2026

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11 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXXI

Robigalia Roundup LXXI

🌽 Registrations for PPATH2026 are open, all about Aspergillus flavus, and meet Carlos Muñoz-Zavala

Mar 9, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXX

Robigalia Roundup LXX

🧅Stemphylium leaf blight in onion, and meet Matthew John

Mar 2, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXIX

Robigalia Roundup LXIX

🍌 A boost of funding for Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4, control and detection of the powdery mildew pathogen Oidium neolycopersici, and meet Mah Rukh Qamar Khan

Feb 23, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXVIII

Robigalia Roundup LXVIII

All about Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), submit your EOI for the Plant Health Video contest, and meet Jasmine Sidhu

Feb 16, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXVII

Robigalia Roundup LXVII

Cryotherapy for virus eradication, all about Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV), and meet Jean Carlos Bettoni

Feb 9, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXVI

Robigalia Roundup LXVI

A boost of funding for the Sainsbury Lab, Ritman Scholarships open, and meet Priyanka Gupta

Feb 2, 2026

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9 min read

Robigalia Roundup LXV

Robigalia Roundup LXV

Peptides as antifungal agents, 6 new opportunities, and meet Annalise Taylor

Jan 26, 2026

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8 min read

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