Michelle Hubbard, PhD
Dr. Michelle Hubbard leads a field, greenhouse, growth chamber and lab based research program on important diseases of pulse crops, including ascochyta blight of chickpea, root rot of pea and lentil and anthracnose of lentil.
Current research and/or projects
Current research projects include the exploration of
- Intercropping chickpea and flax to manage ascochyta blight of chickpea and/or promote chickpea maturity
- Ascochyta blight of chickpea management through the interactions of genetics, fungicides and IMI herbicides
- Fungicide insensitivity in anthracnose of lentil
- An emerging health issue of chickpea
- Management of root rot in pea via
- Crop rotation
- Liming
- Intercropping
- Biocontrol
- Fusarium avenaceum and graminearum in pulses and cereals
- Plant defense priming
- Pulse camelina intercropping
- Impact of KCl fertility on chickpea health
Professional activities / interests
Innovative and sustainable disease management
Intercropping
Farmer outreach
Interactions between climate change and plant disease
Key publications
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Hossain, Z., Hubbard, M., Gan, Y., Bainard, L.D. (2021). Root rot alters the root-associated microbiome of field pea in commercial crop production systems. Plant and Soil, [online] 460(1-2), 593-607. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04779-8
2021 - View publication details
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Karppinen, E.M., Payment, J., Chatterton, S., Bainard, J.D., Hubbard, M., Gan, Y., Bainard, L.D. (2020). Distribution and abundance of Aphanomyces euteiches in agricultural soils: effect of land use type, soil properties, and crop management practices. Applied Soil Ecology, [online] 150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.103470
2020 - View publication details