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  • Crop disease management in focus at WA workshops
    Diseases, 03 Jul 2021
    Crop disease management in focus at WA workshops

    WA growers and agronomists are being offered two-day workshops which will be presented by AFREN.

  • Wild wheat relative leads to crown rot gene discovery
    Diseases, 28 Jun 2021
    Wild wheat relative leads to crown rot gene discovery

    Wheat lines containing a crown rot resistance gene have arrived in Australian quarantine, with pre-breeders standing by to test the resistance and combine it with four other sources previously identified in Australia

  • Research aims to put squeeze on crop disease
    Diseases, 23 Jun 2021
    Research aims to put squeeze on crop disease

    The start to the grain cropping season in Western Australia has been wetter than usual which could mean higher-than-average crop disease levels in the coming months.

  • Disease tool to inform growers’ variety choices
    Diseases, 16 Jun 2021
    Disease tool to inform growers’ variety choices

    A project is developing a ‘yield loss to disease’ tool that draws on five years of Australian field trial data and statistical analysis. The tool will be used to determine likely yield responses to various disease loads for wheat varieties with different resistance and tolerance ratings.

  • ‘FR-5’ podcast series a roadmap for fungicide resistance management
    Diseases, 09 Jun 2021
    ‘FR-5’ podcast series a roadmap for fungicide resistance management

    A new GRDC podcast series aims to help growers understand how fungicide resistance develops and how they can prevent it from becoming an issue in their cropping programs.

  • Grasses offer important clues on cereal rust pathogens
    Diseases, 08 Jun 2021
    Grasses offer important clues on cereal rust pathogens

    News reports on COVID-19 over the past 18 months have, at times, made reference to the field of epidemiology – the study of the distribution and causes of diseases in populations. Epidemiology is also vital in plant disease control – for example, delaying epidemic onset and slowing disease progress (‘flattening the curve’) are critical in dampening the epidemic potential of a plant pathogen.

  • Gene editing holds promise for climate-proofing cereal breeding programs
    Diseases, 31 May 2021
    Gene editing holds promise for climate-proofing cereal breeding programs

    Scientists at the University of Queensland believe that gene editing will play a vital role in climate-proofing crops to ensure food security into the future.

  • Keeping canola ahead of evolving blackleg
    Diseases, 14 May 2021
    Keeping canola ahead of evolving blackleg

    Shifts in the efficacy of genetic resistance to blackleg and changing farm practices mean staying ahead of this evolving pathogen takes constant vigilance. Both early sowing and stubble retention practices have an impact on infection patterns and management practices.

  • Suppressing disease to protect break crops
    Diseases, 13 May 2021
    Suppressing disease to protect break crops

    GRDC is targeting profitable disease management in pulses and oilseeds through active disease surveillance and diagnostics, pathogen biology, epidemiology (how diseases function in the environment), genetic solutions and the development of integrated disease management packages.

  • Summer crop disease breakthroughs
    Diseases, 07 May 2021
    Summer crop disease breakthroughs

    For the first time, researchers in Queensland have identified an insect vector for phytoplasma in grain legumes. They have also discovered asymptomatic host crops for Fusarium wilt in mungbeans and quantified the interaction with root lesion nematode.

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