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Delivery of Improved Invertebrate Pest Management in the Northern Grains region. logo
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Delivery of Improved Invertebrate Pest Management in the Northern Grains region.

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project will deliver reduced economic losses caused directly by invertebrate pests or by poorly implemented pest management (IPM) strategies. New knowledge and tools for key pests, including six economic case studies, will be delivered by the project. These will increase grower and adviser understanding of, and confidence in IPM...

1 Jul 2014 - 30 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland (DAFQ)

Insecticide resistance management in RLEM and chemical sensitivities logo
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Insecticide resistance management in RLEM and chemical sensitivities

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Pest mites are a significant threat to the establishment of grain crops and the emergence of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids and organophosphates in the red legged earth mite (RLEM) is of particular concern. This investment will optimise insecticide-testing methodologies, develop baseline sensitivity data and test field populations across Australia if/when...

1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Melbourne

CropPhen: Remote mapping of grain crop type and phenology logo
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CropPhen: Remote mapping of grain crop type and phenology

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project aims to develop a software-based tool to remotely map crop type (wheat, barley, chickpea, lentils, sorghum and mungbean) and development stage at the sub-paddock scale. The project will combine remote sensing, crop simulation modelling, machine learning and field validation datasets to develop an approach that captures data on...

24 Feb 2020 - 30 Jan 2024

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Australian Cereal Rust Control Program - Novel sources of stem rust resistance from uncultivated wild relatives of wheat logo
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Australian Cereal Rust Control Program - Novel sources of stem rust resistance from uncultivated wild relatives of wheat

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Rusts are have the potential to cause significant losses for Australia wheat growers. These potential losses are largely prevented through the incorporation of sources of genetic resistance into varieties. This project aims to continue the successful incorporation of rust resistance from related species into wheat and distribute the elite lines...

1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

AgScore: An agricultural approach to assessing the skill of seasonal climate forecasting systems and their value for aiding on-farm decision making logo
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AgScore: An agricultural approach to assessing the skill of seasonal climate forecasting systems and their value for aiding on-farm decision making

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project takes an agriculturally focused approach to assessing the skill of seasonal climate forecasting systems and their value for aiding on-farm decision making. It makes use of AgScore - an innovative software tool that provides robust comparisons of seasonal climate models using agriculturally relevant metrics. AgScore is a cloud-based...

13 Apr 2020 - 30 Dec 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP) - University of Sydney: Delivering genetic tools and knowledge required to breed wheat and barley with resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust logo
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Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP) - University of Sydney: Delivering genetic tools and knowledge required to breed wheat and barley with resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and stem rust

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Wheat and barley rusts have the potential to cause significant production losses in Australia. Although fungicides control rusts, they do not provide complete control in highly susceptible cultivars. Genetic resistance therefore remains the foundation of integrated rust control. This project exploits and builds on the previous achievements and investments by...

1 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

Capturing global diversity and international genetic gains of wheat and barley logo
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Capturing global diversity and international genetic gains of wheat and barley

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

The CIMMYT Australia ICARDA Germplasm Evaluation (CAIGE) program coordinates the importation, quarantine, multiplication, distribution and evaluation of wheat and barley lines from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The CAIGE shipments from CIMMYT and ICARDA comprise...

1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

Durum Crown Rot benchmarking for improved grower access to durum varieties with greater Crown Rot resistance logo
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Durum Crown Rot benchmarking for improved grower access to durum varieties with greater Crown Rot resistance

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Crown rot is a major disease constraint on the further development of the durum industry in Australia as all current durum varieties are susceptible to the disease. Several diverse sources of crown rot resistance have been identified and introgressed into adapted durum backgrounds by previous projects. This project aims to...

20 Apr 2019 - 31 Mar 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

The development of an accurate, high throughput, affordable and relevant screen for LMA risk for the Australian wheat industry logo
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The development of an accurate, high throughput, affordable and relevant screen for LMA risk for the Australian wheat industry

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project aims at the development of an accurate, high throughput, affordable and relevant screen for Late Maturity alpha-Amylase (LMA) risk in the Australian wheat industry. Falling number is a global industry standard used to quantify detrimental pre-harvest sprouting, as early release from seed dormancy leads to significant effects on...

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Development of gene deployment strategies: using evolutionary principles to optimise the development of genetic resistance in crops logo
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Development of gene deployment strategies: using evolutionary principles to optimise the development of genetic resistance in crops

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Disease control in agriculture is very often ephemeral with resistance based on genetic approaches often showing little durability. A major source of this instability lies in the fact that host-pathogen systems are biotic interactions in which both components have potential to evolve. In the past the widespread use of major...

1 Jul 2015 - 30 Dec 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)