Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (NSW)
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.
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
- Crop type:
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- All Crops
- Organisation
- [NSW] Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Region:
- North
- Project status
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Completed
GRDC News
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17 Apr 2025
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11 Jul 2023
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02 Apr 2023
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Update papers
- 26 Feb 2025, Septoria tritici blotch – risk and management considerations in the central west of NSW for 2025 - GRDC
- 26 Feb 2025, Integrated management of wheat stripe rust across central NSW to southern Qld 2021 to 2024 - GRDC
- 10 Feb 2025, NSW fungicide resistance update - status of cereal pathogens - GRDC
- 14 Aug 2024, Cereal disease update for 2024: where do we sit in central NSW? - GRDC
- 12 Aug 2024, Fusarium crown rot in central and southern cropping systems: it’s all a numbers game - GRDC
- 22 Jul 2024, Cereal disease update for 2024 where do we sit in the north - GRDC
- 13 Feb 2024, Fusarium crown rot in central and northern cropping systems: it’s all a numbers game - GRDC
- 13 Feb 2024, Septoria tritici blotch - risk and management considerations for 2024 - GRDC
- 18 Jul 2023, Fungicide resistance in wheat powdery mildew in Qld and NSW in 2022 - GRDC
- 18 Jul 2023, Cereal disease management in 2023: what does a return to a ‘normal’ spring mean? - GRDC
- 27 Feb 2023, Fusarium head blight and white grain issues in 2022 wheat and durum crops - GRDC
- 21 Feb 2023, 2023: A TESTING year for cereal disease management! - GRDC
- 13 Feb 2023, Cereal diseases - an autopsy of 2022 and management considerations for the 2023 season - GRDC
- 06 Feb 2023, Fungicide resistance in wheat powdery mildew - GRDC
Podcasts
Seasonal diseases update for canola and pulses: Northern region - GRDC
29 Aug 2023What signs should growers be looking for, how is and does weather affect decision making and what are the considerations...
