Thomas Fetch

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Research Scientist

Conducting research on control of stem rust of cereal crops that leads to development of new wheat, barley, and oat cultivars.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Morden, MB

Current research and/or projects

  • Developing new wheat, barley, and oat cultivars
  • Biovigilance of wheat stem rust (Ug99) virulence

Key publications

  1. Fetch, T., Mitchell Fetch, J., Zegeye, T., Xue, A. (2021). Races of Puccinia graminis on barley, oat, and wheat in Canada from 2015 to 2019. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, [online] 43(3), 463-471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2020.1829066

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  2. Fetch, T., Mitchell Fetch, J., Zegeye, T., Xue, A. (2021). Races of Puccinia graminis on barley, oat, and wheat in Canada in 2013 and 2014. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, [online] 43(1), 101-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2020.1745892

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  3. Kumar, S., Fetch, T.G., Knox, R.E., Singh, A.K., Clarke, J.M., Depauw, R.M., Cuthbert, R.D., Campbell, H.L., Singh, D., Bhavani, S., Pozniak, C.J., Meyer, B., Clarke, F.R. (2021). Mapping of Ug99 stem rust resistance in Canadian durum wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, [online] 43(4), 599-611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2020.1843073

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  4. Hiebert, C.W., Moscou, M.J., Hewitt, T., Steuernagel, B., Hernández-Pinzón, I., Green, P., Pujol, V., Zhang, P., Rouse, M.N., Jin, Y., McIntosh, R.A., Upadhyaya, N., Zhang, J., Bhavani, S., Vrána, J., Karafiátová, M., Huang, L., Fetch, T., Doležel, J., Wulff, B.B.H., Lagudah, E., Spielmeyer, W. (2020). Stem rust resistance in wheat is suppressed by a subunit of the mediator complex. Nature Communications, [online] 11(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14937-2

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  5. Kebede, A.Z., Bekele, W.A., Mitchell Fetch, J.W., Beattie, A.D., Chao, S., Tinker, N.A., Fetch, T.G., McCartney, C.A. (2020). Localization of the stem rust resistance gene Pg2 to linkage group Mrg20 in cultivated oat (Avena sativa). Phytopathology, [online] 110(10), 1721-1726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-03-20-0076-R

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  6. Saini Sharma, J., Fetch, T., Hiebert, C.W. (2020). Characterization and mapping of stem rust resistance in McNair 701 winter wheat, 42(3), 390-395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07060661.2019.1669076

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  7. Aboukhaddour, R., Fetch, T., McCallum, B. D., Harding, M. W., Beres, B. L., & Graf, R. J. (2020). Wheat diseases on the prairies: A canadian story. Plant Pathology, 69(3), 418-432. doi:10.1111/ppa.13147

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  8. Kebede, A.Z., Admassu-Yimer, B., Bekele, W.A., Gordon, T., Bonman, J.M., Babiker, E., Jin, Y., Gale, S., Wight, C.P., Tinker, N.A., Menzies, J.G., Beattie, A.D., Mitchell Fetch, J., Fetch, T.G., Esvelt Klos, K., McCartney, C.A. (2020). Mapping of the stem rust resistance gene Pg13 in cultivated oat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (TAG), [online] 133(1), 259-270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00122-019-03455-5

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  9. Randhawa, H.S., Brown, P.D., Fetch, J.M., Fetch, T., Gilbert, J., McCallum, B., Menzies, J., Gaudet, D. (2020). Aac crossfield red spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 100(2), 239-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2019-0237

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  10. Knox, R.E., Bokore, F.E., Cuthbert, R.D., Berraies, S., McCallum, B.D., Henriquez, M.A., Kumar, S., Burt, A., Fetch, T., Monro, C., Bhavani, S., Piche, I., Campbell, H.L., Meyer, B., Ruan, Y., Bhadauria, V., N'diaye, A., Pozniak, C.J., A. Sharpe, A., R., and DePauw, R. 2019. Molecular Breeding Opportunities and Challenges for Complex Trait Recombination on Wheat Chromosome 4B. XXVII International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, January 12-16, 2019.

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  11. Kumar, S., Fox, S.L., Fetch, J.M., Green, D., Fetch, T., McCallum, B., Aboukhaddour, R., Henriquez, M.A. (2019). Aac warman canada western red spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 99(2), 289-298. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2018-0221

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  12. Ruan, Y., Singh, A.K., Depauw, R.M., Knox, R.E., Cuthbert, R.D., McCallum, B., Fetch, T., Beres, B.L. (2019). AAC stronghold durum wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 99(4), 560-567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2018-0224

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  13. Kumar, S., Fox, S.L., Mitchell Fetch, J., Green, D., Fetch, T., McCallum, B., Aboukhaddour, R., Henriquez, M.A. (2019). AAC magnet Canada western red spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 99(6), 988-996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2019-0180

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  14. Kumar, S., Fox, S.L., Mitchell Fetch, J., Green, D., Fetch, T., McCallum, B., Aboukhaddour, R., Henriquez, M.A. (2019). AAC LeRoy Canada western red spring wheat. Canadian Journal of Plant Science, [online] 99(6), 997-1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2019-0184

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  15. Brar, G.S., Fetch, T., McCallum, B.D., Hucl, P.J., Kutcher, H.R. (2019). Virulence dynamice and breeding for resistance to stripe, stem, and leaf rust in Canada since 2000. Plant Disease, [online] 103(12), 2981-2995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-19-0866-FE

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  16. Rosa S., Langille L., Humphreys G., McCallum B., Fetch T., Randhawa H., Henriquez M.H., Voldeng H., Cummiskey A., Blackwell B., Scheeren P., Valerio I., and Turra C. (2018) Brazilian spring wheat germplasm as source of genetic variability. Poster and abstract presented at 4th Canadian Wheat Symposium, Nov. 19-22, 2018 in Winnipeg, MB.

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  17. Mitali, B., Beyene, B. Mitchell Fetch, J. W. and Wang, X. (2018). Response of Oat Genotypes to Fusarium Head Blight in Western Canada. 2018 European Fusarium seminar. Tulln, Austria. April 8-11, 2018.

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  18. Wang, X., Che, M. Z., Khalil, H., McCallum, B., Fetch, T., Bakkeren, G., and Saville. B. J. (2018) The involvement of reactive oxygen species in the pathogenesis of wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina. Plant and Animal Genome Conference, January 13-17, San Diego, California, USA (poster).

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  19. Wang, X., Che, M. Z., Khalil, H., McCallum, B., Fetch, T., Bakkeren, G., and Saville. B. J. (2018) The involvement of reactive oxygen species in the pathogenesis of wheat leaf rust fungus, Puccinia triticina. Plant and Animal Genome Conference, January 13-17, San Diego, California, USA (poster).

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  20. Knox, R.E., Bokore, F., Cuthbert, R., McCallum, B., DePauw, R.M., Hiebert, C., Campbell, H.L., Meyer, B., Fetch, T., Ruan, Y., Sharpe, A.G., and Bhadauria, V. 2018. Evidence for the Lr46 leaf rust resistance gene in the wheat cultivar Carberry. XXVI International Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, January 13-18, 2018.

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Contact

Research facility

Morden Research and Development Centre
Route 100, Unit 100-101
Morden, MB R6M 1Y5
Canada

Expertise

Agriculture›Agri-Food

Language

English