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🌾 New CCDM research has identified promising resistance to wheat powdery mildew.
Khapli and Tabasco resisted all isolates tested, offering potential new options for breeders and growers.
👉 Read here: groundcover.grdc.com.au/grdc/announc...
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November 4, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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🌱 Meet Pavel Misiun, a CCDM PhD student using AI and structural bioinformatics to better understand crop disease.
His research explores how fungal pathogen proteins interact with plants, helping support more disease-resistant crops.
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November 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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November 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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🌾 Western Victorian growers – how’s the season finishing up for you? 🌱
In this video, hear from Brendan Smith (WesternAg, VIC) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director). 📖 Read the full seasonal update here: buff.ly/Tn6TOT3
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November 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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Harvest is underway, but how has the season shaped up across Australia?
Hear from agronomists across five states, plus insights from CCDM Director Mark Gibberd. 🌾
👉 Read the full update here: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd...
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October 30, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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October 30, 2026 at 6:46 AM
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🎤 CCDM speaker alert!
Research Fellow Toby Newman is presenting at A-RNA 2026 in Brisbane this Wednesday at 1:25pm!
His talk explores the role of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum small RNAs in its interactions with host plants. 🌱
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October 26, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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Nuffield Australia and GRDC Scholar Charts Three Farm Revenue Streams Through Biochar Pyrolysis

South Australian Nuffield Scholar Paul McGorman has reported that…

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Nuffield Australia and GRDC Scholar Charts Three Farm Revenue Streams Through Biochar Pyrolysis
South Australian Nuffield Scholar Paul McGorman has reported that farm-scale pyrolysis systems can create three distinct revenue streams for agricultural producers through carbon credits, energy generation, and soil enhancement products.
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October 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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🎓 Congratulations to CCDM PhD graduate Arundhati Singha on receiving the Chancellor’s Award for an Exceptionally High Standard Thesis!
Her PhD explored how fungicides move through plants and how this can influence disease control and fungicide resistance. 👏
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October 27, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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Our fungicide dynamics team, led by Dr Jordi Muria-Gonzalez within our Foundations projects group”
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👏 Congratulations to the PhD researchers and everyone involved.
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October 20, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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🌾 CCDM’s Associate Professor Julia Easton will present at #FoodAgilityCongress2026, showcasing how Food Agility-supported research is turning farm data into better decisions for growers, industry and government.
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October 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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The CCDM team is committed to training the next generation of researchers tackling major crop disease challenges. Sophia Wertheim an undergraduate student at Curtin University whose research is helping to improve understanding of Ascochyta Blight in lentils.
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October 1, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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🌾 The CCDM AAGI team recently visited AGT in Northam, touring a wheat breeding trial site and learning about the journey from research to new crop varieties. Thanks to Dion Bennett and Usman Ijaz for an insightful Breeding 101 crash course.
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September 30, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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🌱 CCDM researchers Bernadette Henares and Nimllash Thangam will be presenting at the Pulse Pathology Meeting in Tamworth on 29 September.
Best of luck, Bernadette and Nim! 👏
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September 29, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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🌾 CCDM researchers found that resistance to spot form net blotch can vary across different barley genetic backgrounds, highlighting the importance of testing resistance genes before deployment in breeding programs.
📖 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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September 28, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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🌱 CCDM researchers are screening lentil and chickpea breeding lines for resistance to Ascochyta blight, helping identify valuable genetic resistance that can support the development of more resilient pulse varieties for growers.
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September 28, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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🌾 CCDM researchers have identified a mutation in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to SDHI (Group 7) fungicides.
Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/mutation-dis...
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September 25, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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🌾 CCDM staff, Fatima Naim and Callum Verdonk, will be presenting their research at #ComBio2026 in Sydney on 30 September.
ComBio provides a platform for researchers to share cutting-edge discoveries and foster collaborations.
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September 24, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to CCDM PhD student Ciara Gifford on winning the Kliti Grice Laureate Award. Her honours research used hyperspectral sensing to improve our understanding of wheat responses to yellow spot disease. 🌾👏
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September 23, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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🌱 CCDM scientists have identified a mutation in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to SDHI fungicides (Group 7). It's an early warning and gives growers time to adapt management strategies.
Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/mutation-dis...
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September 22, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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Trials to kill gazanias and help farmers reclaim paddocks #gazanias #weedcontrol #GRDC
Trials to kill gazanias and help farmers reclaim paddocks
Farmers are investing in expensive approaches from deep ripping to video-sensor spraying to kill gazanias, a colourful invasive weed.
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September 17, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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🌱 Some of our Canola and Pulses team are scoring Sclerotinia severity in six canola varieties two weeks after inoculation. The results will support future disease management research.
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September 14, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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📢 New paper published!
CCDM researchers have explored how the Australian Parastagonospora nodorum population has adapted to changes in wheat host genetics over time. 🌾
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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September 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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🌾 On the ground in Esperance! Our Canola and Pulses team is conducting annual field surveys, with a focus on Ascochyta lentis in lentil crops. Thanks to Andrea Hills, the growers and agronomists supporting this important work. 🌱
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September 10, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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September 4, 2026 at 3:00 AM