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Phenomics to improve disease management and resistance breeding
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-06T09:00:00+10:00In the quest for sustainable agriculture, the effective management of crop diseases and the development of resilient, disease-resistant crops are paramount. Phenomics, the study of an organism’s physical and biochemical traits as influenced by the environment and genetics, has emerged as a powerful tool to achieve these goals. GRDC is investing in these new methods, both at field and laboratory level. Barley Net blotches, wheat rusts and blackleg in canola are the first targets.
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Enhancing crop trial data to strengthen variety decisions
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-05T09:00:00+10:00Innovations in Plant Variety Testing in Australia (INVITA) is a GRDC investment working with its National Variety Trials (NVT) program using advanced technologies such as imaging and drone data to predict crop performance and account for environmental effects. Through comprehensive monitoring and data analysis, INVITA is looking to better understand genotype by environment interactions offering growers better and faster crop variety data for smarter decisions.
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Phenomics – the link between crop genetics and performance
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-04T09:00:00+10:00Bridging 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 change in accuracy and throughput by using innovative platforms and advanced sensors to accelerate exciting advances in crop improvement. The Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPN), supported by significant investments from federal and state governments, universities and GRDC, is providing much-needed infrastructure to facilitate this step change.
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Enticing data scientists to take on grain challenges
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-03T09:00:00+10:00A global competition has proved to be a novel means of engaging data scientists to solve a challenge for the grains industry. The competition centred on finding robust solutions for wheat head detection using field images from different regions. With GRDC support through the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry initiative, researchers are now looking to further automate this machine-learning-driven phenotyping of wheat.
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Analytics internship brings a step change to field research
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-02T09:00:00+10:00An 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.
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Analytics identifying valuable new genetics
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-08-30T09:00:00+10:00GRDC invests through the CAIGE program to access germplasm from CIMMYT in Mexico and ICARDA in Morocco. Underpinned by sophisticated analytical support from the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry, the program is providing valuable diversity to commercial breeding companies, which has resulted in several variety releases.
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Big data approach improves on-farm trial insights
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-08-29T09:00:00+10:00Researchers at CCDM are using precision agricultural tools like yield maps and remote sensing to manage variability in Australian cropping systems, improving crop yields and quality. With GRDC and Food Agility CRC support and in collaboration with industry partners, they aim to develop spatial analysis tools for growers, helping them to make more informed decisions through visualisation of data, implementation of on-farm experimental strip trials and advanced statistical methods.
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Digital technologies transforming grains RD&E
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-08-28T09:00:00+10:00Data collection, management, and analytics technologies are converging to transform grains research, development, and extension (RD&E). GRDC is making foundational investments in analytics, data, and phenomics to realise opportunities to improve RD&E outcomes.
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Analytics to power grains decisions
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-08-27T09:00:00+10:00The Australian grains sector is embracing a data-driven revolution, leveraging statistics and analytics to enhance research, development and extension projects. Building on previous investments GRDC’s new Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) initiative aims to elevate the industry’s competitiveness through cutting-edge analytics, fostering collaboration and enhancing the analytics workforce to drive profitability and efficiency for grain growers.