GRDC Grains Research Update, online - Strategies to help crops deal with heat in CQ

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Summary

Topics:

• Wheat yield and quality at high temperatures - how do different current wheat cultivars handle temperature stress compared with each other and with elite developmental lines?  Rebecca Thistlethwaite (University of Sydney)
• CQ winter cereal varieties and sowing dates - sweet spots for flowering in CQ and sowing dates for different varieties. Darren Aisthorpe (DAF Qld)
• Factors affecting coleoptile length in wheat - what can growers do now and what’s coming? Greg Rebetzke (CSIRO)
• Winter sown sorghum - emergence in cold soil and optimising combinations of hybrids and agronomy. Darren Aisthorpe (DAF Qld)

Past event resources

Update papers

• Winter sown sorghum for Central Queensland
• Optimising wheat maturity x sowing date - Sweet spots for flowering in CQ
• Assessing long coleoptile genetics to improve wheat establishment with deep sowing
• Maintaining wheat yield under high temperatures - how do current cultivars compare with what's coming?

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