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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.