Dr Paul Melloy

Research Fellow

School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability

p.melloy@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Dr Paul Melloy is a research fellow at UQ on a GRDC-funded project, collaborating with DPIRD, to assist in the development of plant disease models that can be used as decision support tools. Paul's current work is focused on, modeling the spread of ascochyta blight in chickpeas, reviewing effective management strategies for controlling net blotch in barley and engaging with agritech platforms to deliver a spatial model estimating blackspot risk in field peas at sub-field scales. Paul is assisting in the adoption of the disease decision support tools YellowSpotWM and StripeRustWM to improve farm profitability.

Publications

Journal Articles (8)

Conference Paper (1)

Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Sapak, Zaiton, Melloy, Paul, Minchinton, Elizabeth J., Salam, Moin U. and Galea, Victor J. (2023). The influence of temperature and vapour pressure deficit on conidia germination and germ tube production in an Australian Podosphaera xanthii isolate. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 166 (3), 315-328. doi: 10.1007/s10658-023-02664-5

Khaliq, Ihsanul, Melloy, Paul and Sparks, Adam H. (2022). ascotraceR: an R package resource to simulate the spatiotemporal spread of Ascochyta blight in a chickpea field over a growing season. Phytopathology, 112 (9), PHYTO01220016A-2035. doi: 10.1094/phyto-01-22-0016-a

Melloy, Paul, Del Ponte, Emerson Medeiros and Sparks, Adam H. Henry (2022). Timing of triazole-based spray schedules for managing mungbean powdery mildew in Australia: a meta-analysis. Plant Disease, 106 (3) PDIS06211256RE, 918-924. doi: 10.1094/pdis-06-21-1256-re

Melloy, Paul, Del Ponte, Emerson Medeiros and Sparks, Adam H. (2021). Timing of triazole-based spray schedules for controlling mungbean powdery mildew in Australia: a meta-analysis. AgriRxiv, 2021. doi: 10.31220/agrirxiv.2021.00042

Khaliq, Ihsanul, Fanning, Joshua, Melloy, Paul, Galloway, Jean, Moore, Kevin, Burrell, Daniel and Sparks, Adam H. (2020). The role of conidia in the dispersal of Ascochyta rabiei. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 158 (4), 911-924. doi: 10.1007/s10658-020-02126-2

Khudhair, M., Melloy, P., Lorenz, D. J., Obanor, F., Aitken, E., Datta, S., Luck, J., Fitzgerald, G. and Chakraborty, S. (2014). Fusarium crown rot under continuous cropping of susceptible and partially resistant wheat in microcosms at elevated CO2. Plant Pathology, 63 (5), 1033-1043. doi: 10.1111/ppa.12182

Melloy, P., Aitken, E., Luck, J., Chakraborty, S. and Obanor, F. (2014). The influence of increasing temperature and CO2 on Fusarium crown rot susceptibility of wheat genotypes at key growth stages. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 140 (1), 19-37. doi: 10.1007/s10658-014-0441-6

Melloy, Paul, Hollaway, Grant, Luck, Jo, Norton, Rob, Aitken, Elizabeth and Chakraborty, Sukumar (2010). Production and fitness of Fusarium pseudograminearum inoculum at elevated carbon dioxide in FACE. Global Change Biology, 16 (12), 3363-3373. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02178.x

Conference Paper

Finlay, K. J., Luck, J. E., Chakraborty, S., Constable, F., Freeman, A., Griffiths, W., Hollaway, G., Melloy, P., Nancarrow, N. and Trebicki, P. (2011). An analysis of plant disease and vector threats under future climates. 2011 APS-IPPC Joint Meeting, Honolulu, HI, United States, 6-10 August 2011.

Thesis

Melloy, Paul (2015). The effect of CO2 and temperature on Fusarium crown rot incidence, severity, pathogen colonisation, toxigenic potential and host resistance in a selection of wheat germplasm. PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1

Areas of research

Plant and crop science