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🌱 Stronger Lentils Ahead!
Breeders now have new markers for developing lentil varieties with improved Ascochyta blight resistance.
CCDM researchers have mapped the genetic regions that help lentils fight off this pathogen.
📖 doi.org/10.1002/tpg2...
#theGRDC #CurtinUni @larskamphuis.bsky.social
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Thrilled to announce… #AFREN received a High Commendation at the 2025 Engagement Australia Excellence Awards in the Industry Engagement Category 🌟
Supporting the grains industry to tackle fungicide resistance🌱
Congratulations to everyone involved!
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #EngagementAustralia
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Student spotlight🌾 Kai Bagley is a PhD student developing multivariate spatial models for on-farm experiments using multilayer sensor data. His work will help growers make more reliable, data-driven agronomic decisions. 🧠📊 #theGRDC #CurtinUni #foodagility
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Student spotlight🌾 Isobel Screaigh was an Honours student at CCDM whose research on fungal transcription factors just led to a published paper - doi.org/10.1099/acmi...
She now works at DAFF as a molecular biologist, identifying plant pathogens using DNA sequencing. #theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🧪 Fungicide resistance: how it develops, how we fight it 🌾
Hear from CCDM’s Nola D’Souza on the GRDC podcast 🎙️ as she shares how resistance is tracked in the lab, the role of AFREN & how growers can slow its spread.
🎧 Listen: bit.ly/3WFUEMY
💻 AFREN: afren.com.au
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🎉 Huge congrats to Dr Fatima Naim on winning a Young Tall Poppy Science Award! 🌱
Her groundbreaking work in plant physiology & disease tolerance is helping fight crop disease and boost resilience. 👩🔬
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #AIPS
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🌾 Canola field trials in action at @CurtinUni! 🌾
We're testing 9 varieties across 660 plants to better understand resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot. Covered plots + red rice inoculation = ideal conditions for disease development. 🍚🦠
#theGRDC #CurtinUni @mcderbyshire.bsky.social
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Our fungicide resistance team joined the Stirlings to Coast Farmers field day last week sharing insights and collecting disease samples.
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🌱 It’s been a brilliant week at #IFLRC2025 & #APC2025 in Perth!
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🎤 Big congrats to Nimllash Thangam for making it to the #FameLab Australia National Final! 🌱
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC
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It's been a bright sunny day down at Newdegate Machinery Field Day ☀️
Our researchers have had a great time chatting to plenty of locals about all things crop disease! 🌾
We will be around in the GRDC tent for the rest of today and tomorrow, so come down to say hi 👋
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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We’re packing up the microscopes and heading to Newdegate Field Day next week🌾🔬
You’ll find the CCDM team in #theGRDC tent at Oval Site 77, ready to chat about crop disease research, share what we’re working on, and answer your questions.
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Still a bit of time left for Day 2 of Dowerin Field Day! 🌾
We have plenty of staff down who are ready to chat all about their research and answer your crop disease and ag data questions 🦠 👩💻
Come down to the GRDC tent on the oval to grab a coffee with us ☕
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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Come grab a coffee with us at Dowerin Field Day ☕
We are in the GRDC tent on the oval chatting all things crop disease, agriculture data analytics and more! 🌾 💻
Plus there are plenty of others with us so make sure to check it out!
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #GGA_WA #AEGIC #SoilsWest
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Student spotlight🌾 Ancy Tony is a PhD student working on a studentship partnership with #InterGrain to focus on developing genetic resistance in wheat to powdery mildew, caused by the fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis. 🧬🌱
#theGRDC #CurtinUni @karchuntan.bsky.social
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🎉 Huge congrats to our 2025 CCDM Award winners! 🌾
👏Elizabeth Czislowski, @larskamphuis.bsky.social, Joel Haywood, Lincoln Harper, Rose Megirian, Em Thackwray & Mohitul Hossain — we are proud to shine a light on your contributions in research, leadership, innovation & support! 🌱
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🌾 Come say hi to us at Dowerin Field Day next week!
You’ll find the CCDM team in the #theGRDC tent on Oval 83 and 97, where our researchers will be ready to chat about crop disease, share insights from the lab, and answer your questions.
☕ Join us for a coffee and a chat!
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🧬 A triple mutant of net form net blotch (NFNB) has been found in WA, SA & VIC — showing resistance to all 3 major fungicide groups 🌾 Fungicides still matter, and growers play a key role 💪
📍 Read the CCDM Spotlight: buff.ly/IGy4Efm
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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Student spotlight🌾 Nimllash Thangam is a PhD student working to develop durable resistance in lentil to Ascochyta lentis, using breeding and molecular tools like effector protein analysis 🧬🌱 Catch him at the #FameLab Australia Finals visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🌾 Tackling Sclerotinia stem rot in canola — with red rice! 🍚
CCDM researchers have developed a reliable field method to screen for SSR resistance using red rice inoculum. 🌱💡With promising lines identified for breeding.
📖 doi.org/10.1094/PDIS...
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🚨 Triple fungicide resistance detected in WA barley 🚨
Net form net blotch isolates from South Stirling show resistance to Groups 3, 7 & 11.
📖 Read the GRDC Media Release here: buff.ly/VOt3IMT
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #DPIRDbroadacre
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🌱 What a week at #ISMPMI2025! 🧬
Huge congrats to all our CCDM staff & students who presented their science on the global stage.
👏 Special shoutout to Mohitul Hossain for receiving an MPMI Travel Award—well deserved! 🏆✈️
#theGRDC #CurtinUni #ISMPMI
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CCDM researchers are heading to #ISMPMI2025! 🌱🧬 Hear all about fungal gene regulation, small RNA effectors, pan-genomics, resistance gene discovery and more. Check out the program to catch our team 🌍 buff.ly/HnZY9Da
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🧬 New tools to tackle Ascochyta blight! 🌱
@jwdebler.bsky.social & co-authors have developed a new selectable marker to help researchers knock out & reintroduce genes in Ascochyta rabiei & A. lentis 🦠
📖 authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFSk6h9SD...
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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🧬 Nola D’Souza and co-authors are exploring genetic resistance to net form net blotch in barley in their latest paper.
Their study identified major and novel QTLs across 6 chromosomes—offering new tools for breeding more resilient crops. 🌾
📖https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.70088
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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Student spotlight🌾 Patrick Burnside, an honours mechatronics engineering student, is developing a portable leaf scanner to detect disease on cereal leaves in the field—speeding up and improving crop disease monitoring! #theGRDC #CurtinUni @fatinaim.bsky.social
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🌾 Esperance growers — wheat powdery mildew samples have shown a gateway mutation linked to potential Group 3 fungicide resistance.
✔️ 10 of 13 samples affected
✔️ Follow AFREN’s FR5 strategy
📖https://buff.ly/jW6T6a7
#theGRDC #DPIRDbroadacre #CurtinUni
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Student spotlight🌾 Arundhati Singh is a PhD student investigating how the fungicide fluxapyroxad moves within barley and is tracking fungicide resistance in the pathogen which causes spot form net blotch. 🧬🌱 Hear her talk at #APPS2025 next Monday 26 May💬 www.apps2025.org
#theGRDC #CurtinUni
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Student spotlight🌾 Sundara Link is a PhD student working to protect barley from spot form net blotch. Her project uses mutagenesis and GWAS to uncover new resistance genes—helping breeders develop stronger, more resilient barley crops. 🧬🌱 #theGRDC #CurtinUni
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