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.
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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: 481 - 490 of 823 search results
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GRDC Code: KAL2104-001SAX
NGN - Phosphorus Response Curves for Pulses in the Esperance and Albany Port Zones
Growers and advisors have told GRDC that their pulse nutrition management is currently based on cereal response curves rather than known pulse information. Research conducted in Chile in 2014, found that there was a correlation between wheat and…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DJP2104-004RTX
Epidemiology of Septoria Tritici Blotch in the low and medium rainfall zones of the Southern region to inform IDM strategies.
Septoria tritici blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) (STB) is a damaging disease of wheat that without control can cause extensive losses in susceptible wheat cultivars in high rainfall (HRZ) situations, but in the medium (MRZ) and low rainfall zones…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: ANU2103-001RSX
GRS - (Tanya Skinner) A golden future for enhancing yield potential in canola
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Tanya Skinner who is completing her PhD at the Australian National University supported by a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Tanya is working to improve photosynthetic yield potential in crops by looking…- Project start date:
- 31/03/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/01/2025
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: SLR2103-001RTX
Farming Systems & Agronomic Changes For Integration of Long Coleoptile Wheat in the West Region
This investment is intended to provide growers with knowledge on the risks and benefits associated using longer coleoptile wheat. The trials focus on better understanding the long coleoptile trait and the impact on time to emergence, soil…- Project start date:
- 29/03/2021
- Project end date:
- 06/04/2023
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOM2103-001RSX
GRS - (Nicholas Chong) Role of transposable elements in the blackleg fungus in its ability to overcome canola cultivar resistance and to…
A major challenge for the grains industry is that pathogens adapt to disease prevention measures, such as genetic resistance in plant cultivars or fungicides. In the case of blackleg disease of canola, research has found that one way the fungus…- Project start date:
- 01/03/2021
- Project end date:
- 29/02/2024
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: IGP2103-001AWX
National Milling Oats Breeding Program
The National Oat Breeding Program, backed by joint $5.4 million investment from the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and AgriFutures Australia over five years, was propelled into a new era under the leadership of commercial…- Project start date:
- 01/03/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: QUT2102-001RTX
Upgrading APSIM nitrogen cycling and loss routines with data from the National Australian Nitrous Oxide Research Program (NANORP)
This investment will access the high precision Nitrogen (N) dataset collected by the NANORP program to develop validate and/or improve soil N algorithms within APSIM that predict daily changes in N pools and movement, plant uptake and N losses. The…- Project start date:
- 19/02/2021
- Project end date:
- 19/02/2022
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CSP2102-006RTX
Leveraging International Germplasm to Deliver Improved Chickpea Chilling Tolerance for Australian Growers
Chickpea is one of Australia's most rapidly expanding crops, becoming increasingly valuable to the grains industry and providing rotational benefits to the farming system. Most expansion of chickpea has been in the relatively warm areas of…- Project start date:
- 15/02/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOQ2101-003RSX
GRS - (Shanice Van Haeften) New insight and tools to increase yield potential and reliability in mungbean
This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Shanice Van Haeften who is completing her PhD at the University of Queensland in mungbean supported by a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Shanice aims to improve the understanding of the physiological and…- Project start date:
- 01/01/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/07/2024
- Crop type:
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- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: AGT2101-001RTX
Crown rot resistance and tolerance evaluation for genetic improvement
Crown rot is a significant constraint to the profitability of grain growers across Australia. There are currently limited control options for the disease while conservation farming and drier climates can exacerbate the issue. One component of a…- Project start date:
- 01/01/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active