Understanding the Impacts of waterlogging on barley, canola and fababean

Soil waterlogging has severe impacts on agricultural production in the high rainfall zones of Australia. For the purpose of developing strategies to minimise the impact of waterlogging, this project will be focusing on an understanding of the impacts of waterlogging on barley, canola, and fababean and their physiological responses to anaerobic stress from varying waterlogging events. Field trials conducted in Tasmania and Victoria will be used to develop soil waterlogging models to examine the risk and frequency of waterlogging in response to climate and crop environment and quantify the benefits of using waterlogging tolerant varieties and engineering solutions (drainage such as raised beds, tillage solutions such as controlled traffic) in mitigating waterlogging. The enhanced modelling capacity will provide an opportunity to simulate species by management by environment (G*E*M) interactions in order to quantify the impacts of waterlogging and the benefit/cost of mitigation for all Australian grain-growing regions.