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  • GRDC backed breeding program set to dial up the heat tolerance of wheat
    Plant Breeding, 15 Nov 2022
    GRDC backed breeding program set to dial up the heat tolerance of wheat

    A hot finish on a bumper crop can have devastating effects for grain growers across Australia, with heat stress estimated to cost the grains industry $37 million annually in wheat alone.

  • Ascochyta blight discovery to improve variety choices for lentil growers
    Plant Breeding, 31 Oct 2022
    Ascochyta blight discovery to improve variety choices for lentil growers

    Australian researchers have discovered a gene in the fungal pathogen causing ascochyta blight that triggers disease resistance in lentils, helping researchers to advise growers on lentil varieties with strong genetic resistance.

  • Fresh focus on seeds and spikes
    Plant Breeding, 29 Oct 2022
    Fresh focus on seeds and spikes

    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

  • Lupin establishment project sows seeds for success
    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.

  • New fungus to help landholders fight fast spreading weed
    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.

  • Voyage of discovery: destination salinity-tolerant chickpeas
    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.

  • Wild peanut’s legacy reaches across the world
    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

  • Cropping’s quiet achiever establishes a foothold
    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.

  • Versatile vetch builds system agility
    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.

  • Lodging in sorghum remastered
    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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