Prof Rick Roush

Duration: 26 min 43 sec
Format: MP3

Our guest for this episode is Professor Rick Roush, Dean of Land and Food Resources. Rick Roush!|s career spans research, teaching, regulatory, and administrative appointments in both the US and Australia. Rick!|s main efforts for the last 30 years have been to develop integrated pest management solutions and he has also published extensively pesticide resistance management and on biological control of insects, mites and weeds. Roush earned a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked at Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Cornell and Adelaide Universities.

From 1998 through 2002, Roush served as Director of the national Australian Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Weed Management based at the University of Adelaide, and coordinated weed management research and extension on crops and natural ecosystems at 19 state, federal, industry, and university organizations across Australia. This included leading the CRC to its renewal in 2001 for another 7 years with $18 million in federal grants.

"... every transgenic crop, every new variety of a transgenic crop gets scrutinized by regulatory authorities in several countries, and usually in each country there will be at least 20 scientists looking at the data sets that are available." - Prof Rick Roush

Useful Information

Books and Chapters

• Evans K.J, L. Morin, E. Bruzzese, and R.T. Roush 2004. Overcoming limits on rust epidemics in Australian infestations of European blackberry. In: J. M. Cullen, D. Briese, D. T. Kriticos, W. M. Lonsdale, L. Morin, an J. K. Scott, eds. Proceedings of the XI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 2003, pages 514-19. Canberra, Australia: CSIRO Entomology.
• Preston, C. and R.T. Roush. 1999. Variation in herbicide dose rates: risks associated with herbicide resistance, pp. 128-137, in !!!OPrecision Weed Management in Crops and Pastures!!L , eds., R. W. Medd and J. E. Pratley. Proceedings of a workshop, 5-6 May 1998, Wagga Wagga, NSW. CRC for Weed Management Systems, Adelaide. 154 pp.
• Roush, R. T. 1997. Managing Resistance to Transgenic Crops. pp. 271-294, in Advances in Insect Control: The Role of Transgenic Plants, N. Carozzi and M. Koziel, eds. Taylor and Francis (London)
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Journals

• Bates, S. L., J. Cao, J.Z. Zhao, E.D. Earle, R.T. Roush, and A. M. Shelton. 2005. Evaluation of a chemically inducible promoter for developing a within-plant refuge for resistance management. Journal of Economic Entomology 98: 2188-2194.
• Zhao, J.-Z., J. Cao, H. L. Collins, S. L. Bates, R. T. Roush, E. D. Earle, and A. M. Shelton. 2005. Concurrent use of transgenic plants expressing a single and two Bacillus thuringiensis genes speeds insect adaptation to pyramided plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 8426-8430.
• Evans, K.J., M.K. Jones and R.T. Roush. 2005. Susceptibility of invasive biotypes of European blackberry to rust disease caused by the uredinial stage of Phragmidium violaceum under field conditions in Australia. Plant Pathology 54: 275-286.

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Credits

Host: Dr Shane Huntington
Producers: Kelvin Param, Eric Van Bemmel and Dr Shane Huntington
Audio Engineer: Dean Collette
Theme Music performed by Sergio Ercole. Mr Ercole is represented by the Musicians' Agency, Faculty of Music
Voiceover: Paul Richiardi

Series Creators: Eric van Bemmel and Kelvin Param

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