Paul Goodman

Research Group

Plant-Parasite Interactions based at the Crop Science Centre

Research Overview

Plant-parasitic nematodes are highly destructive and economically impactful pests, with crop loss and management costs exceeding $100 billion per annum. Regulatory pressure has restricted the use of toxic conventional nematicides, and the development of safer alternatives is limited by traditional discovery pipelines – which study the nematode in isolation. My PhD research focuses on the application of high-throughput imaging and phenomics to nematicide screening on infected plants. These techniques when applied to the plant-nematode complex may facilitate the discovery of nematicides which disrupt plantparasite interactions.