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GRDC invests in data cataloguing to transform R&D
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-17T09:00:00+10:00GRDC’s $3.6 billion investment in research for Australian growers has highlighted the need for improved data accessibility, leading to the development of a new data catalogue to enhance data findability and usability, ultimately driving innovation and research efficiency in the grains industry.
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Assessing sensors for enhanced canola plant architecture selection
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-16T09:00:00+10:00GRDC is exploring the potential of next-gen phenomic tools with a Dutch company, PhenoKey, and the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, to improve yield selection in canola. Preliminary studies are showing promise for the application of LiDAR, X-ray and RTK-GPS for high-throughput non-destructive estimation of biomass, harvest index and other traits.
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Grains research recruits from a wide science nursery
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-13T09:00:00+10:00The opportunity to acquire and analyse big data from new technology such as drones, satellites and sensors is attracting more students from diverse backgrounds to research in the grains industry. Supported by GRDC Research Scholarships, recent examples are Chrisbin James and Daniel Smith, who are completing PhD’s with Professor Scott Chapman at the University of Queensland, while Dr Andrew Longmire has completed his with Professors Deli Chen and Pablo Zarco-Tejada at the University of Melbourne.
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Novel techniques identify drought-tolerant roots
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-12T09:00:00+10:00Professor Daniel Rodriguez, Dr Dongxue Zhao, Associate Professor Karine Chenu, Professor Lee Hickey, Professor David Jordan, Professor Emma Mace, Professor Hannah Schneider, Associate Professor Andries Potgieter, Dr Vijaya Singh, Dr Anton Wasson and Dr Hammad Khan
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Push to step up trait knowledge adoption
Supplement: Analytics, Data and Phenomics, July-August 2024 - 2024-09-11T09:00:00+10:00Can UAV mounted hyperspectral cameras be used to assess potential useful physiogical traits to enhance the yield potential of Australian wheat? This is a question being addressed in a GRDC/Australian Grain Technologies supported project aiming to optimise the deployment of physiology-based traits in wheat breeding using phenomic tools.
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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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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.