Research interests
Plant Nematology
Root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus thornei & P. neglectus)
Breeding for disease resistance
Wheat

Professional memberships
Member of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society
Member of the Australasian Association of Nematologists

Research most recent
Sheedy JG, McKay AC, Lewis J, Vanstone VA, Fletcher S, Kelly A, Thompson JP (2014) Cereal cultivars can be ranked consistently for resistance to root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus thornei & P. neglectus) using diverse procedures. Australasian Plant Pathology DOI 10.1007/s13313-014-0333-4.

Sheedy JG, Thompson JP, Kelly A (2012) Diploid and tetraploid progenitors of wheat are valuable sources of resistance to the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus thornei. Euphytica 186:377-391. DOI 10.1007/s10681-011-0617-5.

Sheedy JG and Thompson JP (2009) Resistance to the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus thornei of Iranian landrace wheat. Australasian Plant Pathology 38, 478-489.

Publications in ePrints

Khoo, Kelvin H. P. and Sheedy, Jason G.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5016 and Taylor, Julian D. and Croser, Janine S. and Hayes, Julie E. and Sutton, Tim and Thompson, John P.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-5695 and Mather, Diane E. (2021) A QTL on the Ca7 chromosome of chickpea affects resistance to the root‑lesion nematode Pratylenchus thornei. Molecular Breeding, 41 (12):78. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1380-3743

Thompson, John P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-5695 and Sheedy, Jason G.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5016 and Robinson, Neil A.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-7038 and Clewett, Timothy G. (2021) Tolerance of wheat (Triticum aestivum) genotypes to root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) in the subtropical grain region of eastern Australia. Euphytica, 217 (3):48. pp. 1-30. ISSN 0014-2336

Thompson, John P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-5695 and Sheedy, Jason G.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5016 and Robinson, Neil A.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-7038 (2020) Resistance of Wheat Genotypes to Root-Lesion Nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) Can be Used to Predict Final Nematode Population Densities, Crop Greenness, and Grain Yield in the Field. Phytopathology, 110 (2). pp. 505-516. ISSN 0031-949X

Robinson, Neil A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6636-7038 and Sheedy, Jason G.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5016 and Macdonald, Bethany J. and Owen, Kirsty J.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-8225 and Thompson, John P.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-5695 (2019) Tolerance of wheat cultivars to root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) assessed by Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is predictive of grain yield. Annals of Applied Biology, 174 (3). pp. 388-401. ISSN 0003-4746

Rodda, M. S. and Hobson, K. B. and Forknall, C. R. and Daniel, R. P. and Fanning, J. P. and Pounsett, D. D. and Simpfendorfer, S. and Moore, K. J. and Owen, K. J.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-8225 and Sheedy, J. G.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6569-5016 and Thompson, J. P.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-5695 and Hollaway, G. J. and Slater, A. T. (2016) Highly heritable resistance to root-lesion nematode (Pratylenchus thornei) in Australian chickpea germplasm observed using an optimised glasshouse method and multi-environment trial analysis. Australasian Plant Pathology, 45 (3). pp. 309-319. ISSN 0815-3191

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