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Investment in science and industry development key to profitable agrifood sector 2
Committed to international competitiveness and industry growth 4
Integrated Farming Systems Portfolio 6
Canola as a tactical break crop 8
HIGHLIGHTS 9
Funding and collaborators 9
Local oats Durack, Williams and Bannister feed growing global appetite 11
HIGHLIGHTS 11
Funding and collaborators 12
The truth about seeding rates in barley 13
HIGHLIGHTS 14
Funding and collaborators 14
Web links 14
Rating the risk of pre-harvest sprouting 16
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Funding 17
Dry sowing strategies: the quiet revolution in WA farming systems 19
HIGHLIGHTS 19
Funding and collaborators 20
Reap benefits with early sowing 21
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Funding and collaborators 22
Agronomy for early sown canola 24
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Funding 24
Precision seeding of canola 27
HIGHLIGHTS 27
Funding 28
New technology for early sown field peas 30
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Funders and collaborators 30
Perennial grasses boost productivity of deep pale sands 33
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Funding and collaborators 34
MyCrop: free paddock diagnostics at your fingertips 35
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Funding and collaborators 36
Flower Power: intelligent guide for wheat variety and sowing time decisions 38
HIGHLIGHTS 38
Funding and collaborators 39
Understanding the season using data and technology 40
Highlights 40
Funding and Collaborators 41
Web site links: 41
Soil Productivity Portfolio 44
Collaboration generates abundant opportunities for tackling repellent soils 47
HIGHLIGHTS 48
Funding and collaborators 48
Clay: the soil solver for water repellence? 50
HIGHLIGHTS 51
Funding and collaborators 51
Coating technology - water repellence and soil fertility 54
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Funders and collaborators 55
Green light for blue soil 56
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Funding and collaborators 57
Soil pH link to phosphorus availability 59
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Funding 60
Deep ripping cure for soil compaction 61
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Funding and collaborators 62
On the right track 63
Meeting the many needs for soil acidity to be managed effectively 65
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Funding and collaborators 66
Getting lime in deeper and quicker to recover acidic soils 69
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Funding and collaborators 69
Know your enemy: subsoil constraints 71
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Funding and collaborators 72
Tech innovations improve soil information 73
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Funding and collaborators 74
Breaking out of the box: managing sodic soils 75
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Funding and collaborators 76
Micronutrients are essential for crop production. 77
Highlights box 77
Funding and Collaborators 77
Crop protection portfolio
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Crop disease protection: Are we prepared? 80
HIGHLIGHTS 80
Funding and collaborators 81
Using foliar fungicides to prevent wheat powdery mildew 83
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Funding and collaborators 84
Putting up resistance to rust 85
Canola crops: keeping sclerotinia and blackleg at bay 88
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Funding and collaborators 89
Liquid delivery controls rhizoctonia root rot 91
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Funding and collaborators 92
Yield loss to Fusarium crown rot: Is there a better choice among wheat and barley varieties? 94
Highlights 95
Funding and Collaborators 95
Root lesion nematodes in WA 97
HIGHLIGHTS 98
Funding and collaborators 98
Yield losses link to disease resistance ratings 99
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Funding and collaborators 100
Providing decision support tools for consultants and growers 102
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Funding and Collaborators 103
PestFax: from paddock to print and back 105
HIGHLIGHTS 105
Funding 106
You can fly, but you can’t hide. A tactical approach to detecting and monitoring cabbage aphids in canola crops. 108
HIGHLIGHTS 108
Funding and Collaborators 109
The dirt on snails and slugs 110
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Funding and collaborators 111
Making herbicide choice and application reliable and safe for growers 112
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Funding and collaborators 113
Weed watch: alert for new and emerging threats 115
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Funding and collaborators 116
Genetic Improvement Portfolio 118
Stubble strategies mitigate frost damage 120
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Funding and collaborators 121
Performance values a first for frost 122
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Funding and collaborators 123
Frost risk: managing wheat variety and sowing time 124
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Funding and collaborators 125
Genetic research cuts losses from wheat leaf diseases 127
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Funding and collaborators 128
Managed Environment Facilities (MEF) enable putting the (index) finger on drought performance of wheat varieties 130
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Funding and collaborators 131
Cracking the barley genetic code 132
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Funding and collaborators 133
Enhancing barley adaptation through new molecular markers for phenology 134
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Funding and collaborators 135
Genetic solutions to soil constraints and blue aleurone in barley 137
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Funders and collaborators 138
DNA markers accelerate lupin breeding 139
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Funding and collaborators 140
Star performer: PBA Jurien yield improvement 142
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Funding and collaborators 143
Fast-forward breeding with doubled haploids 145
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Quinoa research explores potential for ‘superfood’ crop 147
HIGHLIGHTS 147
Funding and collaborators 148
58. FIELD RESEARCH SERVICES PORTFOLIO 149
Merredin Managed Environment Facility 151
HIGHLIGHTS 152
Funding and collaborators 152
New Genes for New Environments (NGNE) Facilities 153
HIGHLIGHTS 153
Collaborators 154
Making sense of data, data and more data 155
Highlights 155
Funding and Collaborators 156
Royalties for Regions: Boosting grains R&D 157
HIGHLIGHTS 158
Funding and collaborators 158
Royalties for Regions: eConnected Grainbelt – Helping grain growers better manage risk 159
HIGHLIGHTS 159
Funding and collaborators 160
DAFWA’s R&D Collaborators 161
Scientific journals 163
Books 167
Book chapters 167
Conference papers 168
Crop updates 169