Author: Dr Gio Braidotti
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Fighting back against the chickpea scourge
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2023-03-03T09:00:00+11:00An upgrade in the ability to protect chickpea crops from Ascochyta blight (Ascochyta rabiei) is being engineered through five research programs that are working in lockstep to overcome key disease control limitations
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Fresh focus on seeds and spikes
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-10-29T09:00:00+11:00Advanced imaging technology that uses X-rays is helping researchers and breeders to better target seed size and spike morphology to improve yield and yield resilience
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Soil carbon farming a poor fit for the grains industry
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-06-04T09:00:00+10:00Healthy soils prove more valuable for the productivity boost they provide compared to farming soil carbon to trade as offsets for greenhouse gas emissions
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Australian grain a good fit in a low-carbon future
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-06-01T09:00:00+10:00Many efforts to assess greenhouse gas emissions from grain production have failed to target the whole sector or to account for Australian condition and practices. This has been corrected with the release of a GRDC-commissioned report by CSIRO
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New green fertiliser sources
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-05-29T09:00:00+10:00Alternative methods to produce fertiliser products are under development in Australia and stand to deliver benefits both in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and fixing disruptions to global supply chains
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Weed busting with serradella pasture
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-02-09T09:00:00+11:00Weed management benefits from a serradella pasture phase have been systematically characterised in multi-year field trials
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Computing the impact of soil trait variability on yields
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-01-19T09:00:00+11:00Machine learning software has successfully translated paddock maps of soil characteristics into maps that display the importance of that variation to crop yields
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Lodging in sorghum remastered
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-12-15T15:00:00+11:00New avenues for breeding greater lodging resistance into sorghum have been identified on the back of one of the world’s largest genetic analyses of a sorghum trait
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New role for medical imaging technology in grains research
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-12-13T09:00:00+11:00The ability to screen for stress-tolerant grain and legume germplasm is about to take a giant leap forward with the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility adding an X-ray CT scanner to its automated imaging capabilities
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Genome sequencing muscles-up seed quarantine
Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-10-25T09:00:00+11:00New diagnostic technology is revealing both harmful and highly beneficial microorganisms that hitch a ride in pulse seed imported into Australia