Phenomics to improve disease management and resistance breeding
Project aims to boost nitrogen benefit of chickpea and mungbean crops
05 Sep 2024Legumes fix an estimated 3.5 million tonnes of nitrogen in Australian agriculture each year, equivalent to an annual fertiliser cost of $3.5 billion. This investment will focus on identifying strains with potential as superior inoculants...
Enhancing crop trial data to strengthen variety decisions
05 Sep 2024Innovations in Plant Variety Testing in Australia (INVITA) is a GRDC investment working with its National Variety Trials (NVT) program...
Phenomics – the link between crop genetics and performance
04 Sep 2024Bridging the knowledge gap between improving crop genetics and evaluating field performance has traditionally been time-consuming and laborious. But new technologies are enabling a step...
Enticing data scientists to take on grain challenges
03 Sep 20246 A global competition has proved to be a novel means of engaging data scientists to solve a challenge for the grains industry. The competition centred...
Analytics internship brings a step change to field research
02 Sep 2024An internship at the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry has built skills and confidence for Agriculture Victoria’s Dr Hari Dadu to transition from controlled environment pathology research to field-based research. His new skills are bringing greater insights to data being collected from several GRDC-supported pathology research projects and improved outputs for grower decision-making.
Analytics identifying valuable new genetics
30 Aug 2024GRDC invests through the CAIGE program to access germplasm from CIMMYT in Mexico and ICARDA in Morocco. Underpinned by sophisticated...
Big data approach improves on-farm trial insights
29 Aug 2024Researchers at CCDM are using precision agricultural tools like yield maps and remote sensing to manage variability in Australian cropping...
