Lina Farfan Caceres

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lina.farfancaceres@curtin.edu.au

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Biography

Lina is a Research assistant in the fungicide Resistance Management team at CCDM, working on the application of the latest sequencing technology for rapid fungicide and disease diagnostics and monitoring. Lina is an Agricultural Microbiologist with more than ten years of experience in plant pathology and molecular biology.

Related Resources & Publications

Zulak, K. G., Farfan-Caceres, L., Knight, N. L., & Lopez-Ruiz, F. J. (2024) "Exploiting long read sequencing to detect azole fungicide resistance mutations in Pyrenophora teres using unique molecular identifiers." Scientific Reports, 14, 6285. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56801-z

Henares, B. M., Blake, S. N., Farfan-Caceres, L., Tahghighi, H., Debler, J. W., Russ, M. H., Farquharson, E. A., Rose, J. A., Khani, M., Davidson, J., Kamphuis, L. G., & Lee, R. C. (2023). "Virulence profiles and genome-wide association study for Ascochyta lentis isolates collected from Australian lentil-growing regions." Phytopathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-10-22-0397-R

Lee, R. C., Grime, C. R., O'Driscoll, K., Khentry, Y., Farfan-Caceres, L. M., Tahghighi, H., & Kamphuis, L. G. (2023). "Field Pea (Pisum sativum) Germplasm Screening for Seedling Ascochyta Blight Resistance and Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveal Loci Associated with Resistance to Peyronellaea pinodes and Ascochyta koolunga." Phytopathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-02-22-0051-R

Blake S.N., Lee R.C., Russ M.H., Farquharson E.A., Rose J.A., Herdina, Goonetilleke S.N., Farfan-Caceres L., Debler J.W., Syme R.A. and Davidson J.A. (2022) "Phenotypic and Genotypic Diversity of Ascochyta fabae Populations in Southern Australia" Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.918211

Henares, B.M., Debler, J.W., Farfan-Caceres, L.M., Grime, C.R., Syme, R.A., Blake, S.N., Herdina., Davidson, J.A., Oliver, R.P., Singh, K.B., Kamphuis, L.G., Lee, R.C. (2022) "The novel avirulence effector AlAvr1 from Ascochyta lentis mediates host cultivar specificity of ascochyta blight in lentil" Molecular Plant Pathology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.13203

Bar, I., Thanjavur Sambasivam, P., Davidson, J., Farfan-Caceres, L.M., Lee, R.C., Hobson, K., Moore, K., Ford, R. (2021) "Current population structure and pathogenicity patterns of Ascochyta rabiei in Australia" Mircobial Genomics DOI: http://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000627

Lee, R.C., Farfan-Caceres, L., Debler, J.W., Williams, A.H., Syme, R.A., Henares, B.M. (2021) "Reference genome assembly for Australian Ascochyta lentis isolate A14." G3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab006

Lee, R.C., Farfan-Caceres, L.M., Debler, J.W., Syme, R.A. (2020) "Characterization of Growth Morphology and Pathology, and Draft Genome Sequencing of Botrytis fabae, the Causal Organism of Chocolate Spot of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.)." Frontiers in Microbiology DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00217

Shah R.M., Williams A.H., Hane J, Lawrence J., Farfan-Caceres L.M., Debler J., Oliver R.P., Lee R. (2020) "Reference Genome Assembly for Australian Ascochyta rabiei Isolate ArME14" Genetics GSA G3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.120.401265

Henares, B.M., Debler, J.W., Farfan-Caceres, L.M., Grime, C.R., Lee, R.C. (2019) "Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and expression of GFP in Ascochyta lentis to characterize ascochyta blight disease progression in lentil." PLOS One DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223419

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