Crop disease surveillance activities
DPIRD staff are conducting an annual integrated surveillance and monitoring program for foliar diseases of cereal, oilseeds and pulses in WA cropping zones. The project is jointly funded by DPIRD and GRDC and aims to generate data that will minimise the impact of priority diseases and direct effective disease management strategies. The program involves surveillance of commercial crops, NVT sites and trial sites. Results of recent disease surveys are presented on the webpage 'Crop disease surveillance activities'.
Recent crop disease media statments
- Breakthrough in genetic research to improve SNB resistance in new wheat varieties 2019
- Growers to get more data on disease resistance in crops 2019
- Milling oats an option for paddocks with crown rot: DPIRD research 2019
- Early warning system to help protect crops from canola disease Turnip yellows virus 2019
- SclerotiniaCM app to boost canola disease management 2019
- Look out for Ramularia leaf spot in barley 2019
- Elevated risk of canola fungal disease 2018
- Updated wheat variety disease ratings to protect crops 2018
- Survey highlights impact of soil borne disease risk on crop yields 2018
- New app for canola growers to manage blackleg disease 2018
- App being developed to improve sclerotinia management in canola 2018
- Cereal disease yield loss data on the horizon 2017
- Blackleg Sporacle warns of elevated disease risk 2017
- More yellow spot resistance genes discovered 2017
- Tips for managing cereal disease threats in 2017 2017
- Review wheat disease ratings for high risk year 2017
- Be prepared for pest and disease threat to grain crops 2017
- Fungicide timing key to control sclerotinia 2017
Crop disease research publications and crop update papers
2021 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth and regional
coming soon
2020 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth and regional
coming soon
2019 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth
- Barley loose smut – control, variety susceptibility and effects on grain yield
- Tailored Management of Sclerotinia in Canola through the SclerotiniaCM app
- Validating the SclerotiniaCM app for managing sclerotinia
- The effect of variety and regional nutrition stategies on crown rot severity in Merredin
- Wheat powdery mildew epidemiology and crop management options
- New fungicides for controlling ascochyta in chickpeas
2018 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth
- Fungicide resistance: discoveries in barley net blotches pave way to better understanding the resistance mechanisms
- Understanding how Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum initiates stem rot
- Blackleg CM a new app to manage blackleg in canola
- Characterising soil borne disease risk in the eastern wheat belt of Western Australia and national significance of major diseases
- Oats, pastures and other legumes – Are rotations offering breaks for root lesion nematodes or crown rot?
- Apps, traps and LAMP’s: ‘Smart’ improvements to pest and disease management
- “Where we are with Adult Plant Resistance varieties for barley leaf rust - is it worth spraying?”
- Yield and grain quality losses in barley varieties infected with spot type net blotch (STNB)
- The effect of varietal resistance on the yield loss function of wheat to different foliar diseases
2017 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth
- Sclerotinia in canola - ground infections, effect of row spacings. Is it worth spraying after you see the disease?
- Fungicides at seeding for management of cereal foliar diseases including spot type net blotch
- UAV monitoring of rhizoctonia bare patches for targeted treatment
- Choosing the best yielding wheat and barley variety under high crown rot
- The invisible threat: Canola yield losses caused by root lesion nematode in WA
2016 GRDC Grains Research Updates, Perth
- Yield response to fungicide control of barley spot type net blotch
- Foliar fungicide strategies for managing powdery mildew in wheat
- New cereal rusts in WA and implications for management
- Less yellow spot in wheat- progress towards a decision support tool
- Pea seed-borne mosaic virus - occurrence and management in field pea crops in WA
2015 Agribusiness Crop Updates, Perth
- Rhizoctonia solani AG8: new break throughs in control and management
- Rhizoctonia and crown rot status of Western Australian paddocks can be managed with crop rotation
- Reduce losses from crown rot through variety choice and inter-row sowing
- Incursion of new pathotype of wheat leaf rust into Western Australia in 2013 and its potential impact in Mace
- Stacking yellow spot resistance genes into fixed lines results in genetic gain
- Monitoring airborne spores as an early disease warning
- White grain disorder of wheat in Western Australia
- New ascochyta blight resistant chickpea varieties offer profitable legume options to growers
- Barley varieties with adult plant resistance stand up for leaf rust
- Recent changes in disease resistance profiles of barley varieties in Western Australia
- Fungicide timings for the management of septoria in Bannister oats
- Developing a forecasting model and decision support system for pea seed-borne mosaic virus epidemics in field pea crops
2014 Agribusiness Crop Updates, Perth
- Root lesion nematode has a picnic in 2013
- Why sclerotinia was so bad in 2013
- Potassium deficiency can make wheat more vulnerable to yellow spot and septoria nodorum blotch
- Seed dressings to control loose smut in Hindmarsh barley
- Novel management of barley powdery mildew in the presence of fungicide resistance
- Fungicide options for managing blackleg in canola
- A novel reliable method of field screening for yellow spot resistance
- Monitoring barley powdery mildew resistance
2013 Agribusiness Crop Updates, Perth
- Pratylenchus teres WA's home grown root lesion nematode
- A meta-analysis of 30 years of DAFWA's field trials on fungicide management of yellow spot septoria nodorum blotch disease complex of wheat in WA
- Environment affects maturation of yellow spot on wheat stubble
- Spiroxamine offers an additional cost effective mode of action
- Integrated disease management options to control rhizoctonia bare-patch in cereals
- Indentifation of novel sources of yellow spot resistance in wheat
- Strategies for genetic enhancement of resistance to stagonospora nodorum blotch and yellow spot in wheat