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
Results found: 31 - 40 of 120 search results
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GRDC Code: DAW2305-003RTX
Effective virus management in grain crops (C1)
Viruses are a pervasive and sometimes a hidden threat to grain and oilseed production across Australia. Numerous viruses affect grain production, varying in their modes of transmission, the crops they affect, and their management strategies. Often,…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/05/2028
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: MGP2307-001RTX
Effective Control of Blackleg of Canola
Canola in the 2nd most valuable grain crop in Australia producing 7.8 million tonnes in 2022. Blackleg is a devastating disease of canola, without control, canola cannot be produced in Australia. Blackleg is an ongoing concern as the populations…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UWA2307-001RTX
Effective virus management in grain crops (C3)
Insects lack the ability to synthesise sterols that are essential for their cellular structure and hormone synthesis. As such, insects require a dietary source of sterol and herbivorous pests, such as aphids, rely on sterols from plants. However,…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 29/06/2027
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2307-001RTX
Assessment of dsRNA to control blackleg of canola
Canola in the 2nd most valuable grain crop in Australia producing 7.8 million tonnes in 2022. Blackleg is a devastating disease of canola, without control, canola cannot be produced in Australia. Blackleg is an ongoing concern as the populations…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2027
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOM2306-003RTX
Modelling the incursion and spread of hitchhiker and windborne plant pests in Australia
Recent incidents of Khapra beetle have highlighted the need for improved surveillance of hitchhiker pathways. The Centre for Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) have developed a model APPDIS (Australian Priority Plant & Disease…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 26/10/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Canary Seed, (Cereal)
- Cereal Rye, (Cereal)
- Maize, (Cereal)
- Millet, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Cow Peas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Navy/Kidney/French Beans, (Legume)
- Peanuts, (Legume)
- Pigeon Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Linseed/Linola, (Oilseed)
- Safflower Seed, (Oilseed)
- Soybean, (Oilseed)
- Sunflower Seed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOT2306-001RTX
Understanding the Impacts of waterlogging on barley, canola and fababean
Soil waterlogging has severe impacts on agricultural production in the high rainfall zones of Australia. For the purpose of developing strategies to minimise the impact of waterlogging, this project will be focusing on an understanding of the…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2026
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2306-011RTX
Effective virus management in grain crops (C2)
Combating grain yield reduction due to yellow virus infection is a significant challenge to the Australian grains industry. To address this issue, this project will research, novel virus and vector control methods for Australian Grain industries.…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2027
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UWA2307-002RTX
Improving major gene and quantitative (minor) resistance to blackleg disease of canola
GRDC and UWA are partnering in a $7.06 million project over 5 years through the deployment of genetic resistance strategies in canola. Canola is Australia's third largest grain crop, however blackleg disease is a major threat to production in…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: PHE2210-001RTX
Novel HTP phenomics tech to assess yield components in canola: Feasibility study
Yield potential in water-limited environments is a function of crop transpiration, transpiration efficiency, and harvest index. Harvest index, the ratio of biomass to harvested grain, is low in canola compared to cereal crops, a gap which widens in…- Project start date:
- 01/05/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2024
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: GOA2302-001SAX
NGN - Demonstration of summer fallow weed management strategies to reduce input costs in soils of the Narromine region
Summer fallow weeds cause large grain yield reductions in the following winter crop as they deplete soil water and nitrogen in the fallow phase, therefore limiting availability to crops. Additionally, fallow weeds can act as a 'green…- Project start date:
- 15/02/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active