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Integrated disease management in western region grain crops logo
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Integrated disease management in western region grain crops

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This investment aims to reduce costs and losses attributable to crop diseases, particularly in cereal cropping, in the GRDC's western region by providing research, extension and training to improve grower management of crop diseases. The project will focus on the generation of new knowledge and tools which improve disease management...

1 Jul 2019 - 31 Mar 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)

Integrated disease management tools to manage summer crop diseases in the northern region logo
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Integrated disease management tools to manage summer crop diseases in the northern region

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This investment aims to reduce costs and losses attributable to endemic, emerging and exotic crop diseases in the GRDC's northern region by providing research, extension and training to improve grower management of crop diseases. The project will focus on the generation of new knowledge and tools which improve disease management...

1 Jul 2019 - 30 Sep 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

Soilborne diseases interaction in Australian farming systems logo
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Soilborne diseases interaction in Australian farming systems

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This investment aims to develop new tools and technologies and disease control options for growers to manage soil borne diseases. Locally validated research on complex pathogen interactions, pathogen biology and epidemiology and the interaction between pathogens and abiotic constraints will assist in providing new information on soilborne disease management.

1 Jul 2019 - 31 Mar 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

Program 5: IDM package for Ascochyta Blight in chickpeas logo
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Program 5: IDM package for Ascochyta Blight in chickpeas

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Ascochyta blight (AB, Phoma rabiei) is a devastating fungal disease of chickpea in Australia and worldwide. Current control recommendations often fail as the fungus is highly mutable, rapidly eroding host genetic resistance. As a consequence, while host genetic resistance and chemical control are both integral components of an integrated disease...

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2024

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Disease management strategies in broadacre grain crops for South Australia logo
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Disease management strategies in broadacre grain crops for South Australia

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project aims at improved management strategies for a number of broad-acre grain crop pathogens. Field trials for ascochyta blight of lentil and faba bean, and Septoria tritici blotch will be conducted with a range of varietal resistances and fungicide applications (seed and foliar) to quantify yield loss from disease...

1 Jul 2020 - 31 Mar 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Program 1: Towards effective genetic and sustainable management of Ascochyta blight of chickpea - Ascochyta blight pathogen biology, population dynamics and epidemiology. logo
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Program 1: Towards effective genetic and sustainable management of Ascochyta blight of chickpea - Ascochyta blight pathogen biology, population dynamics and epidemiology.

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Ascochyta Blight (AB, Phoma rabiei) is a major fungal disease capable of causing significant loss and management costs to chickpea crops. Current disease management practices include a fungicide spray regime combined with growing resistant chickpea cultivars. However, since its introduction to Australia, the fungus has become increasingly more aggressive on...

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2024

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Griffith University

Yield loss response curves for host resistance to leaf, crown and root diseases logo
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Yield loss response curves for host resistance to leaf, crown and root diseases

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project was designed to develop more accurate yield loss information for the major diseases of wheat and barley where there is some varietal resistance. By conducting field trials across a range of cropping regions where the diseases occur, the project generated yield responses to regional priority pathogens and nematodes...

30 Jun 2014 - 1 Jul 2019

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]

Cereal and Pulse cultivar resistance ratings for the southern region logo
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Cereal and Pulse cultivar resistance ratings for the southern region

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

In many Australian cropping soils the presence of nematodes limits field crop production. Since yield loss caused by nematodes is related to the density of nematodes in a paddock and the tolerance/intolerance of the crop, growers can minimise yield loss &/or reduce nematode numbers by growing crops or varieties that...

1 Jul 2015 - 30 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

Disease epidemiology and management tools for Australian grain growers logo
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Disease epidemiology and management tools for Australian grain growers

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Diseases are a major cause of yield loss and downgrading in Australian cropping businesses. This investment will conduct detailed epidemiology, disease management and validation experiments in all relevant grain growing regions. Disease targets will be prioritised through a quantitative potential impact analysis and are expected to include sclerotinia and blackleg...

1 Oct 2018 - 30 Sep 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) [WA]

Post-doctoral Fellowship: A Model for Predicting Chickpea Ascochyta Blight Risk logo
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Post-doctoral Fellowship: A Model for Predicting Chickpea Ascochyta Blight Risk

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Ascochyta blight, caused by the fungus Ascochyta (Phoma) rabiei, is one of the most devastating diseases of chickpea worldwide; and is the main disease that constrains chickpea production in Australia. The severity of ascochyta blight is mainly determined by temperature, rainfall and varietal resistance with growers relying heavily on fungicides...

15 Mar 2019 - 30 Sep 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

University of Southern Queensland (USQ)