• Explores the challenges facing future fungicide development and the longevity of the global fungicide market
• Considers how plant pathogens develop resistance to fungicides, as well as how to detect and measure resistance
• Reviews the development of anti-resistance management strategies

Professor Richard Oliver has recently retired from his position as John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Crop Disease Management at Curtin University, Australia. Amongst other honours, Professor Oliver is an Honorary Fellow of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Honorary Professor at Nottingham Universities and was previously a Fellow at Rothamsted Research in the UK and a Visiting Professor at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He is also a past President of the British Society for Plant Pathology.