GRDC Investments
Investments
Welcome to our investments. We invest in Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers.
Here you will find active investments, and investments completed after 1 January 2020 from our RD&E portfolio. Some investments will display related communication and extension activities, and other associated outputs.
Please let us know what you think as we welcome any feedback.
Crop Type
Crop Type
- ☐ All Crops
- ☑ All Pulses
- ☐ Barley
- ☐ Canary Seed
- ☐ Canola/Rapeseed
- ☐ Cereal Rye
- ☐ Chickpeas
- ☐ Cow Peas
- ☐ Faba/Broad Beans
- ☐ Field Peas
- ☐ Lentils
- ☐ Linseed/Linola
- ☐ Lupins
- ☐ Maize
- ☐ Millet
- ☐ Mungbeans
- ☐ Navy/Kidney/French Beans
- ☐ Not Crop Specific
- ☐ Oats
- ☐ Peanuts
- ☐ Pigeon Peas
- ☐ Safflower Seed
- ☐ Sorghum
- ☐ Soybean
- ☐ Sunflower Seed
- ☐ Triticale
- ☐ Vetch
- ☐ Wheat
Interest Area
☐ National Grower NetworkResults found: 1 - 10 of 12 search results
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GRDC Code: ANU2407-001RSX
Nanotechnology enabled CRISPR gene editing in crops
Genome editing of elite varieties of crops is important to generate germplasm that are high-yielding, climate resilient and pathogen resistant. The standard workflow involves the delivery of biomolecule (CRISPR, DNA, RNA), selection of transformants …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/12/2027
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UOQ2407-003RSX
GRS - Enzyme-assisted deconstruction of lignocellulose and reconstruction into high value bio-derived advanced materials for CO2 conversion
Enzyme-assisted deconstruction of lignocellulose and reconstruction into high value bio-derived advanced materials for CO2 conversionThis project falls under the ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2027
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UMU2407-001RTX
Part B: Enhancing Rhizobia resources to improve N fixation in pulse crops across Australia
Legumes fix an estimated 3.5 million tonnes of nitrogen pa in Australian agriculture, equivalent to an annual fertiliser cost of $3.5 billion. Inoculating legumes with highly effective rhizobia is key to the ongoing success of this nitrogen fixation …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UOA2312-008RTX
Improving the understanding and the effectiveness of N fixation in pulses in Australia
Legume crops play a key role in Australian farming systems, providing on average 30kg N/ha extra for subsequent crops (ranging from 7 to 60 Kg N/ha). A review on rhizobia research by GRDC in Australia (Herridge 2021) estimated that about 80% of…- Project start date:
- 01/12/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2028
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: DEE2312-002RTX
Capitalising on pulse protein food and feed opportunities domestically and internationally
Australia produced on average 2.8 million tons of pulse crops between 2017-2022 most of which are exported as bulk commodities. There has been growing interest in the utilisation of plant-derived proteins (PDP's) as functional ingredients in…- Project start date:
- 01/12/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2027
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UOA2212-008RSX
GRS (Junyi Wang) Increasing legume value through the application of genome editing and genomics
awaiting summary- Project start date:
- 12/05/2023
- Project end date:
- 02/10/2026
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: CES2208-001RTX
Understanding and developing a response to blue green aphid resistance to chemical controls
Recently, field populations of bluegreen aphids (BGA - Acyrthosiphon kondoi) have been found with resistance to the insecticides omethoate, chlorpyrifos and pirimicarb. This is the first detection of insecticide resistance in BGA in the world. The…- Project start date:
- 19/08/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/11/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UOS2204-005RTX
NGN Mapping yield gap and yield variability in commercial pulse crops
Growers are interested in making pulse crops a more significant part of on-farm sequences, however cash flow in the year of pulse production continues to act as a handbrake on greater representation of pulses in the crop sequences. Many of the…- Project start date:
- 28/04/2022
- Project end date:
- 15/08/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: SFS2112-002SAX
NGN Large stubble loads and the impact of stripper/disc systems in the High Rainfall Zone of Southern Australia
This investment will compare the stripper and disc seeding systems as a method for managing the high stubble loads generated from high yielding crops.Growers in the southern region have repeatedly expressed interest in stripper and disc systems as a …- Project start date:
- 01/12/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: GGA2110-002SAX
Closing the Economic Yield Gap for Grain Legumes in Western Australia
Grain legumes currently contribute in a small and diminishing way to the profitability of Western Australian farming systems. GRDC analysis indicates farmers are aware of the benefits of growing a legume in their rotation but have concerns about…- Project start date:
- 01/10/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2026
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Region:
- West