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Author: Dr Gio Braidotti

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  • Fighting back against the chickpea scourge
    Fighting back against the chickpea scourge
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2023-03-03T09:00:00+11:00

    An 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

  • Fresh focus on seeds and spikes
    Fresh focus on seeds and spikes
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-10-29T09:00:00+11:00

    Advanced 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

  • Soil carbon farming a poor fit for the grains industry
    Soil carbon farming a poor fit for the grains industry
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-06-04T09:00:00+10:00

    Healthy soils prove more valuable for the productivity boost they provide compared to farming soil carbon to trade as offsets for greenhouse gas emissions

  • Australian grain a good fit in a low-carbon future
    Australian grain a good fit in a low-carbon future
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-06-01T09:00:00+10:00

    Many 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

  • New green fertiliser sources
    New green fertiliser sources
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-05-29T09:00:00+10:00

    Alternative 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

  • Weed busting with serradella pasture
    Weed busting with serradella pasture
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-02-09T09:00:00+11:00

    Weed management benefits from a serradella pasture phase have been systematically characterised in multi-year field trials

  • Computing the impact of soil trait variability on yields
    Computing the impact of soil trait variability on yields
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2022-01-19T09:00:00+11:00

    Machine learning software has successfully translated paddock maps of soil characteristics into maps that display the importance of that variation to crop yields

  • Lodging in sorghum remastered
    Lodging in sorghum remastered
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-12-15T15:00:00+11:00

    New 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

  • New role for medical imaging technology in grains research
    New role for medical imaging technology in grains research
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-12-13T09:00:00+11:00

    The 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

  • Genome sequencing muscles-up seed quarantine
    Genome sequencing muscles-up seed quarantine
    Author: Dr Gio Braidotti, 2021-10-25T09:00:00+11:00

    New diagnostic technology is revealing both harmful and highly beneficial microorganisms that hitch a ride in pulse seed imported into Australia

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