Apply to access the 2024 OzBarley field trials
Barley researchers are being invited to submit expressions of interest for access to field trials of the OzBarley elite panel in 2024. The GRDC and the OzBarley project, which is [...]
GRDC Grains Research Update (Adelaide) | Adelaide, Australia
The GRDC Grains Research Update Events are for agronomists, consultants, researchers and growers to see and discuss the latest in research and to network with their peers about how [...]
Cameras can see beyond a plant’s surface for trait ID
Brooke Bruning at the hyperspectral plant imaging station located at the end of a conveyer belt that moves potted wheat plants through The Plant Accelerator®, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility. [...]
Australian wheat shows resistance to devastating disease
Exciting research is carried out every day by users of the APPF’s technology and facilities. Here we share another inspirational story…. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have shown [...]
Pilot projects wanted for first-of-its-kind combined drought/heat phenotyping platform
A call for pilot projects using a first-of-its-kind research capability at the APPF to accelerate combined stress research discovery Capability offers unprecedented ability to apply drought and heat stress [...]
The stats do matter for grains researchers and agronomists
The statistical skills of grains researchers and agronomists throughout the southern cropping region are being taken to a new level, thanks to training support being offered through the Grains Research [...]
The hunt for combined drought and heat tolerant crops
New review paper discusses what is known, and where research is turning next, in the pursuit of physiological traits for combined stress tolerance in crops Unique new combined drought/heat/humidity/light research [...]
Biotype of Australia’s Russian wheat aphid populations now known
Australian scientists have confirmed that the Russian Wheat Aphid (RWA) now established throughout parts of the nation’s south-eastern cropping regions is a single biotype. This new knowledge, achieved through research [...]
Bumper funding to enhance national infrastructure and grains research
Dean of the Waite Mike Keller, GRDC Managing Director Steve Jefferies, and GRDC Chairman John Woods in a greenhouse with DroughtSpotter system at the APPF’s Adelaide node. National [...]