KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺

@karchuntan

A/Prof of @theccdm on agric & effector biology. 🥰👉cook-gamer-guitar-cars & proud dad. Own views.

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Perth, Western Australia Joined May 2016

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KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan Sep 2

No longer monitoring this account. You can find me here
linkedin.com/in/kar-chun-ta…

au.linkedin.com Kar-Chun Tan - Wheat Initiative | LinkedIn I am a principal investigator and foundation project leader on fungal diseases of crops… · Experience: Wheat Initiative · Education: Murdoch University · Location: Greater Perth Area · 500+ connect...

KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan Jul 22

A few of us from @theCCDM will be heading up to the Gold Coast for the Australian Crop Breeders (ACB) Breeders Week 2026 in early August.

Hope to see some of you there!

CCDM @theCCDM Jul 22

🌾 CCDM at Australian Crop Breeders Week!
We have some CCDM researchers and students attending and presenting at the Australian Crop Breeders Week, a flagship event bringing together crop breeders, researchers and industry leaders from across Australia.
@theGRDC @CurtinUni

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KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan Jul 17

Very glad to share our first venture/paper on the pathotyping of Australian Blumeria graminis f. sp tritici isolates. The study was led by our @theCCDM and @InterGrain1 PhD student @tony_ancy 👩‍🔬 in collaboration with Ben Saunders of @CurtinEandA.

CCDM @theCCDM Jul 17

CCDM and @CurtinUni researchers, with @Intergrain1 and @mullan_daniel, identified wheat powdery mildew resistance sources effective against diverse Australian pathogen populations, supporting future wheat breeding.
Read more: buff.ly/axwRTcS

@theGRDC

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KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan Jul 1

💥 Out now! 💥 Our @MPMIjournal publication, led by @theCCDM Shota Morikawa & @CallumVerdonk , looks at domain functions of a transcription factor involved in necrotrophic effector regulation and co-factor interactions in Parastagonospora nodorum, a fungal pathogen of wheat. 👇

CCDM @theCCDM Jul 1

🧬 New CCDM research reveals how the wheat pathogen Parastagonospora nodorum switches on genes needed to infect crops, uncovering potential targets for future disease control. 🌾
Read more: buff.ly/aFqzJ7j
@theGRDC @CurtinUni

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KC 👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan Jun 17

An excellent summary of the recent @WheatInitiative #IWC2026Bologna meeting. Checkout the newsletter.

Wheat Initiative @WheatInitiative Jun 16

Our latest Newsetter is out today!

Insights from WI committee meetings, IWC2026 Bologna, Expert Working Group activities, Early Career awards, and a wheat research highlight.

wheatinitiative.org/newsletter

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