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Soil health and plant nutrition in Australian Apple and Pear orchards

Hort Innovation

The outcome of this project is to achieve more efficient use of resources (nutrients, water and soil) through improved orchard floor management to improve fruit quality outcomes. This project aims to increase understanding of how soils function with a particular focus on how soil biology contributes to apple and pear...

30 Jun 2020 - 31 Jul 2023

New South Wales, Australia

University of Tasmania (UTAS)

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National tree genomics program for horticulture

Hort Innovation

This program is about harnessing cutting-edge genetic technologies for the benefit of Australian horticultural tree crop industries. New tools are currently being developed in the program to enable Australian plant breeders to deliver new varieties with key productivity and profitability traits, and new tools for growers to enhance farm productivity....

1 Sep 2018 - 1 Dec 2023

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ), Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland (DAFQ)

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Demonstration of functional driverless tractor for Australian horticulture

Hort Innovation

Hort Innovation has contracted the Almond Board of Australia to investigate the impediments to update of driverless technology in the Australian almond industry, review the technology options available and to demonstrate the technology at the Almond demo farm in Loxton SA.

30 Jun 2020 - 1 Jun 2024

New South Wales, Australia

Almond Board of Australia

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Developing management strategies to enhance the recovery from bushfires

Hort Innovation

This project will assess the short and long-term effects of bushfires in apple orchards and other tree crops in New South Wales and South Australia. The work will focus on gaining a better understanding of responses of fruit and trees to fire to better equip growers to deal with bushfire...

24 Jun 2020 - 30 May 2025

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

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Maximising yield and reducing seasonal variation

Hort Innovation

This project is developing the knowledge and tools needed to manipulate and maximise avocado tree yields. Specifically, the project is looking at resource competition between shoots and fruits, potentially providing for new methods of reducing fruit drop. Because vegetative shoot growth coincides with fruit development in avocado trees, competition exists...

31 May 2017 - 31 Aug 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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Improved Disease Management in Avocado Orchards

Hort Innovation

This investment is identifying strategies to minimise the effects of key diseases in avocado orchards and in fruit as it progresses through the supply chain. The project has a focus on diseases including Phytophthora root rot, hellinus brown root rot, nectriaceous black root rot, stem end rot, branch and graft...

6 Nov 2017 - 5 May 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

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Implementing precision agriculture solutions in Australian avocado production systems

Hort Innovation

Hort Innovation has contracted UNE to continue to map all asutralian avocado orchards >1Ha. In addition UNE will continue to validate the relationship between canopy reflectance to yield and tree health and develop a mobile App that support growers to conduct their yield forecasts.

1 Apr 2019 - 31 Mar 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of New England (UNE)

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Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Survey

Hort Innovation

This investment is surveying for avocado sunblotch viroid in growing regions across Australia, to provide evidence to support declarations of regional or national freedom from the pathogen. A declaration of ‘pest freedom’ whether at a farm, region or national level will facilitate export to countries that have their own domestic...

18 Jun 2019 - 20 Dec 2021

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

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Carbohydrates monitoring to predict yield/understanding fruit set

Hort Innovation

This project is examining the methods and tools needed to monitor carbohydrate status in avocado orchards, as a way of predicting yield and understanding fruit set. A recommendation will be made to industry on a viable pathway for the development of a method to rapidly assess avocado carbohydrate status at...

18 Jun 2020 - 31 May 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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Review of the national biosecurity plan for the banana industry

Hort Innovation

Biosecurity planning is a key risk mitigation strategy that gives an industry the best chance of future viability and sustainability. This project aims to review the biosecurity plan for the banana industry and support this industry in satisfying their biosecurity obligations under the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed. Exotic pests...

1 Mar 2017 - 15 May 2021

New South Wales, Australia

Plant Health Australia (PHA)

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3727 research projects

Soil health and plant nutrition in Australian Apple and Pear orchards

National tree genomics program for horticulture

Demonstration of functional driverless tractor for Australian horticulture

Developing management strategies to enhance the recovery from bushfires

Maximising yield and reducing seasonal variation

Improved Disease Management in Avocado Orchards

Implementing precision agriculture solutions in Australian avocado production systems

Avocado Sunblotch Viroid Survey

Carbohydrates monitoring to predict yield/understanding fruit set

Review of the national biosecurity plan for the banana industry

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