H. Randy Kutcher
Professor
Plant Sciences, Crop Development Centre
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Northern Sales Co. Ltd. – Agronomist, 1980-1982; 1984-1986 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Regina, Postdoctoral Fellow – 1994-1996 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Melfort, SK, Research Scientist, 1996-2011
Research Interest
Mitigation of cereal and flax diseases using integrated pest management (IPM) solutions; focus areas include: stripe rust and fusarium head blight of wheat, crown rust of oat, and pasmo and fusarium wilt of flax.
Publications
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Turkington TK, O'Donovan JT, Harker KN, Xi K, Blackshaw RE, Johnson EN, Peng G, Kutcher HR, May WE, Lafond GP, Mohr RM. The impact of fungicide and herbicide timing on foliar disease severity, and barley productivity and quality. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 2015 May;95(3):525-37.
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Cholango-Martinez LP, Zhang XM, Hucl PJ, Kutcher HR. First Report of Fusarium Head Blight, Caused by Fusarium graminearum, on Annual Canarygrass (Phalaris canariensis) in Saskatchewan, Canada. Plant Disease. 2016 Aug;100(8):1780.
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Brar GS, Kutcher HR. Race characterization of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the cause of wheat stripe rust, in Saskatchewan and southern Alberta, Canada and virulence comparison with races from the United States. Plant Disease. 2016 Aug;100(8):1744-53.
