News: agriculture

Durum breeding to grow in commercial sector

Durum

Durum Breeding ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog (DBA) has announced that ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Grain Technologies Pty Ltd (AGT) has been awarded the licence to take the durum breeding program forward.

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Minimising the impact of frost-bite on Aussie crops

Crops at Loxton where frost trials took place.

Spring radiation frost is estimated to cost ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn grain growers $360 million in direct and indirect losses every year. In a paper published in researchers at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide and the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Wollongong have ranked the susceptibility to frost damage in wheat and barley germplasm (seed and tissues) under frost prone landscapes across ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.

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New centre to train experts in crop resilience

Associate Professor Stuart Roy

×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide experts are part of a new research centre that will train the next generation of scientists to develop more resilient crops.

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SA hub will help build resilience to drought

Drought affected paddock

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide, as part of an extensive collaboration with industry and the South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Government, will lead a new drought resilience hub in South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog. Announced today, the hub will undertake research, development, extension, adoption and commercialisation activities to improve drought resilience and preparedness on SA farms.

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National success for industry-linked ARC grants

Goodman cres

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has been awarded more than $3.6 million in industry-linked grants by the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Research Council (ARC) for important research that will attract a further $1.8 million in support from industry. The research will have a positive impact on diverse areas such as defence, food production and protecting the environment.

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Further action on cadmium needed for global food safety

tractor

An international group of leading fertiliser and soils experts have published a major review of the status of the toxic heavy metal cadmium in agricultural systems around the world.

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Study sheds new light on vein formation in plants

Agriculture, plant image from Pixabay

An international team of researchers including the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide, has found plant hormones known as strigolactones suppress the transportation of auxin, the main plant hormone involved in vein formation, so that vein formation occurs slower and with greater focus.

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APPF welcomes FieldExplorer for improved crop data collection in the field

FieldExplorer at Waite campus

The FieldExplorer, a new ground-based field phenotyping platform, has arrived at The Plant Accelerator, the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Plant Phenomics Facility’s () node at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Waite campus, bringing new capability to accurately measure the performance of plants in different environments non-destructively and over time.

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ThincLab Loxton to drive AgTech innovation

Image of five people in front of banners

A new ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide ThincLab Innovation Hub/Business Incubator is being established at Loxton in the Riverland in a partnership with the State Government to drive AgTech and food innovation and assist regional entrepreneurs.

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$7 million investment to unite genomics research in SA

Image of a DNA strand

Research institutes across South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog are combining their expertise and resources to establish a state-of-the-art centre for genomics in SA. The South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Genomics Centre will open its doors on 1 July 2020 thanks to an investment of more than $7 million, including $2 million from Bioplatforms ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog through the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

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