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Plant Breeding, 05 Oct 2022
Lupin establishment project sows seeds for success
Results from a two-year project to help lupin growers in Western Australia maximise establishment, yields and grain quality and reduce incidence of split seed have been released.
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Biosecurity, 25 Aug 2022
New fungus to help landholders fight fast spreading weed
Landholders now have a new biocontrol tool to help fight one of Australia's most challenging agricultural weeds, flaxleaf fleabane.
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Plant Breeding, 20 Jul 2022
Voyage of discovery: destination salinity-tolerant chickpeas
Long-term, collaborative research has yielded new plant breeding tools for the development of salt-tolerant chickpea varieties that could push the crop’s expansion into salinity-affected areas.
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Plant Breeding, 24 Feb 2022
Wild peanut’s legacy reaches across the world
One well-travelled wild peanut has had a profound influence on food security and pest and disease resistance around the world, showing what can be achieved when genetics are shared
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Plant Breeding, 18 Feb 2022
Cropping’s quiet achiever establishes a foothold
In the past 30 years vetch has become an established part of Australia’s cropping landscape. It is one of those crops every Australian farmer has heard of but would not always recognise. A specialist vetch breeder and agronomist, Stuart Nagel of SARDI believes vetch is, in many ways, the quiet achiever of the cropping world – a versatile annual legume that has several potential purposes or markets.
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Plant Breeding, 18 Jan 2022
Versatile vetch builds system agility
In the past 30 years vetch has become an established part of Australia’s cropping landscape, especially in dryland mallee areas such as south-eastern Western Australia around Esperance, all across South Australia, in Victoria’s Mallee and central regions, and in New South Wales’ Riverina and central west cropping zones. Grower Charlie Williams, owner of one of Victoria’s biggest hay and stockfeed grain producers, is one of the crop's most loyal advocates.
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Plant Breeding, 15 Dec 2021
Lodging in sorghum remastered
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
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Plant Breeding, 13 Dec 2021
New role for medical imaging technology in grains research
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
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Plant Breeding, 26 Nov 2021
Multi-pronged strategy tackles LMA wheat quality defect
Research into the wheat quality defect late maturity alpha-amylase (LMA) targets genetic improvements, field predictions and new testing methods
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Plant Breeding, 14 Nov 2021
Statistical modelling upgrade improves variety trials analysis
Varieties can be compared more easily across environments with a method that helps both breeders and growers understand yield’s biological drivers