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Description: Seminar given by Dr. Araz Solman from the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. Short abstract: Research into plant-pathogen interactions has historically taken a simplified approach involving a single host and a single disease. However, in natural and agroecosystems, plants are frequently co-infected with several pathogen species or genotypes, exhibiting complexities not captured by the widely used single disease approach. In this seminar, I will address the complex dynamics of plant co-infection by focusing mainly on a tripartite pathosystem consisting of wheat as the host and two major fungal pathogens: Pyrenophora tritici-repentis (Ptr) and Parastagonospora nodorum (Pan).