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: 161 - 170 of 823 search results
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GRDC Code: UOF2303-001RSX
GRS (Kathryn Schleyer) Sustainable growth of pulse crops during drought
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Kathryn Schleyer who is completing her PhD at Flinders University supported by a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Kathryn is researching a gene family that may play in role in helping improve drought…- Project start date:
- 21/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 27/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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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. …- 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
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GRDC Code: ANU2306-002RSX
GRS (Rita Tam) Enabling smart and cost-effective management strategies for wheat stripe rust disease with modern genomics technology
Expanding the capacity of pathogen diagnostics is essential for enabling cost-effective disease management strategies for stripe rust. This project's outcomes will equip the industry with novel tools and technologies to pursue better preventive…- Project start date:
- 18/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/12/2026
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: EAS2306-002SAX
Group 4 herbicide tolerant Lentil - Crop Safety Field Studies to alternative actives
These trials will evaluate the crop safety and yield of clopyralid tolerant lentils when treated early post emergent (EPE) with 4 alternative Group 4 herbicides.Trials will be located in South Australia and Victoria, the major Lentil growing states…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Soybean, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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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
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GRDC Code: UOQ2306-015RSX
GRS (Paula Demarco) GxExM control of canopy development in sorghum
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Paula Demarco who is completing her PhD at the University of Queensland supported by a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Paula's research aims to better understand physiological traits underlying…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/12/2025
- Crop type:
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- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: DAQ2306-010RTX
QDAF - National Grain Diagnostics & Surveillance Initiative (NGDSI)
Exotic pests and diseases are a threat to Australian agriculture as they can potentially damage crops, increase costs and inhibit exports. The potential annual cost to growers to control an incursion and impact on trade during an incursion is…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: NFL2304-001CRX
Regulation Framework for site-specific chemical application
Herbicide registration is lagging the development of site-specific-chemical application technologies.In this investment, Nufarm will collaborate with GRDC and the APVMA to develop new protocols for Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and Good…- Project start date:
- 14/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/01/2029
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: EAS2305-001SAX
Crop Safety Field Studies - Clopyralid Herbicide Tolerant (CT) Field pea
Novel field pea genotypes with an induced target site mutation have been developed that provide a high level of tolerance to clopyralid herbicide. Clopyralid tolerance provides an alternative or complimentary herbicide group and may provide improved …- Project start date:
- 12/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Soybean, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: HFS2306-002SAX
NGN - Spray workshops to optimise application and reduce drift in the Mid-North of SA
Attendees at the Hart NGN Forum in July 2022 identified an opportunity for spray workshops to support and encourage growers to adopt best practice spray management, as an industry good function for ensuring ongoing social acceptance, given the…- Project start date:
- 06/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- South