Associate Professor Sambasivam (Sam) Periyannan, a crop geneticist and pathologist with the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) has completed the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation's (ARLF's) TRAIL program, with support from CRDC.
Sam has a passion for crop protection and in his previous work with CSIRO characterised new pathotypes of Puccinia sp. which causes rust disease in wheat. Sam co-developed a rapid resistance gene cloning technique and characterised several resistance genes for rust disease. He also was a co-inventor in three patent applications while at CSIRO.
TRAIL is one of two CRDC-supported leadership programs run by the ARLF, along with the Australian Rural Leadership Program. CRDC supports one cotton industry participant through TRAIL each year, as part of our commitment to developing cotton's research capacity.
