Prof. Robert Park BSc (Hons), PhD
GRDC Chair of Cereal Rust Research

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Plant Breeding Institute
107 Cobbitty Road
Cobbitty NSW 2570
Australia

Robert Park completed a PhD in plant pathology at La Trobe University in 1984. His PhD work focused on Mycosphaeralla diseases of eucalypts, and since graduating, has worked on rust diseases of cereals. He currently holds the GRDC Chair in Cereal Rust Research at the Plant Breeding Institute, and leads the Australian Cereal Rust Control Program. His research interests include variability in Puccinia triticina, P. graminis f. sp. tritici, P. hordei and P. coronata f. sp. avenae, and the genetics of resistance to these diseases in their respective hosts.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals and books