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: 11 - 20 of 43 search results
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GRDC Code: UOA2306-015RSX
GRS (Sreshtha Malik) Beyond glyphosate: Targeting unexplored aromatic amino acid biosynthesis enzymes in the search for new herbicides
f776f3a3-2071-ed11-b82f-0050569735c6 E2 E2 Capacity & ability 9179865 Capacity & ability Include. …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2306-005RSX
GRS (Chrisbin James) Virtual Agricultural Imaging and Sensing through Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
Phenotyping grain count (and grain count per panicle) in sorghum has been traditionally performed via threshing. Grain count is a trait that is highly correlated with grain yield and, additionally, grain count per panicle is also associated with…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2025
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2307-004RTX
Assessing the potential of engineered microbial communities to reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agricultural soils
Proof-of-concept funding has been secured from the 'DAF-UQ Zero Net Emission Grand Challenge' scheme to collect a diverse range of soils (representing a range of soil characteristics, i.e., pH, texture, organic matter content, nutrient…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2025
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOA2301-014RSX
GRS (Ryan McClean) Re-purposing failed antibiotics in the pursuit of novel herbicides
50f40206-3966-ed11-b82f-0050569735c6 E2 E2 Capacity & ability 9179781 Capacity & ability Include 3 9 1 2 862 100. …- Project start date:
- 20/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/12/2027
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UMU2306-008RSX
GRS (Chunsheng Xiao) The molecular mechanism regulating quinolizidine alkaloid content in vegetative tissues and seeds of narrow-leafed…
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Chunsheng Xiao who is completing her PhD at Murdoch University in lupin alkaloids supported by a GRDC Grains Research Scholarship (GRS). Chunsheng is characterising molecular mechanisms regulating alkaloid …- Project start date:
- 01/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 27/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOM2304-004RSX
GRS (Alec McCallum) Fungicide Resistance in Blackleg Disease in Canola
Blackleg is at risk of evolving fungicide resistance due to its genetic diversity and ability to overcome selection pressures. CropLife Australia have developed a resistance management guide that outlines recommendations to limit the evolution of…- Project start date:
- 30/04/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UMU2302-007RSX
GRS (Brittany Robertson) Reducing stomatal density in barley to improve drought tolerance
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Brittany Robertson who is completing her PhD at Murdoch University in plant genetics via a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Brittany is researching the characteristics of plant stomata (tiny pores on the…- Project start date:
- 28/02/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2025
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: DJP2106-008SAX
Increasing grower and advisor capacity and confidence in seasonal forecasting - Southern region and SNSW
This project will build on the successful seasonal forecast extension project - GRDC South 'Using Seasonal Forecasts Project DAV1803-010SAX (2018-2020). The Agriculture Seasonal Risk project team have a proven track record, and come with an…- Project start date:
- 25/06/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2023
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: MSF2010-002SAX
Practical tactics to improve ground cover and ensure soil preservation following successive low rainfall seasons
Following successive low rainfall years (2017-19), that resulted in very low to no ground cover on the lighter soils across the low rainfall zone of the Southern Region, growers and advisers were faced with difficult management decisions to…- Project start date:
- 26/10/2020
- Project end date:
- 26/10/2022
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: PHA1911-002SAX
National Diagnosticians Biosecurity Blitz Workshop
An Exercise Planning Committee lead by PHA and drawing its membership from industry and government will be formed from the outset of the project. Its role will be to guide and provide input into the development of the exercise, including…- Project start date:
- 14/08/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed