Net blotch (Pyrenophora teres Drechsler): An increasingly significant threat to barley production

Abstract

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is a plant species cultivated across all continents that holds great significance in the beer industry, spirits production, livestock feed production and human nutri-tion (McLean et al. 2010;Verstegen et al. 2014). However, barley is susceptible to numerous plant pathogens, the most significant being the foliar pathogen Pyrenophora teres Drechsler [anamorph