Investment

GRDC Code: DPI2207-002RTX

Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (NSW)

This 1 year 9 month project will support NSW grain growers to minimise the impact of crop diseases (winter cereals, winter pulse and winter oilseed species). An integrated project design will support NSW grain growers to minimise the impact of priority winter crop diseases through:
1. Access to diagnostic capacity to ensure correct diagnosis and provision of specialised integrated disease management advice to ensure appropriate control strategies are implemented.
2. Knowledge of the distribution and importance of endemic and emerging diseases of NSW grain crops through random seasonal surveillance to inform and guide communication, capture changes in disease distribution and severity, assist in understanding underlying factors related to these changes, prioritise research efforts and maintain industry awareness/preparedness.
3. Improved knowledge on the distribution, importance, epidemiology and/or management of emerging or sporadic diseases (e.g. viruses, seed pathogen infection levels) through targeted annual surveys; and
4. Support market access of Australian grains through area freedom data of exotic pathogens. This will be achieved through both visual assessment of priority exotic diseases in random or targeted crop surveys and by provision of geo-referenced plant samples to NSW DPI biosecurity researchers for molecular testing for exotic pathogens.
Communication and measurement & evaluation (M&E) captured under the project will maximise and measure adoption by NSW growers.

Project start date:

01/07/2022

Project end date:

30/04/2024

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