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DDLS - Seed testing and certification

DDLS Seed Testing and Certification (formerly AGWEST Plant Laboratories) is a service area under the DAFWA Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DDLS) - an amalgamation of DAFWA plant and animal laboratory and inspection services.

DDLS provides effective and efficient laboratory capacity, inspection, policy input, research and testing for early diagnosis of notifiable diseases and verification for market access importation protocols for the state's agricultural industries.

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  • Close up of white star potatoes on white background

    Potato seed certification

    20 November 2013

    DDLS Seed Testing and Certification is responsible for administering the industry seed potato production schemes in Western Australia.

  • Net type net blotch has thin brown streaks that often cross with a net like appearance

    Managing net-form net blotch of barley in Western Australia

    13 December 2012

    Net-form net blotch is a fungal disease that can reduce yield and grain quality of barley crops. This page describes the symptoms briefly, with greater focus on how this disease is managed.

  • Pile of golden wheat grain

    Seed dressing and in-furrow fungicides for cereals in Western Australia

    20 November 2013

    Seed dressing and in-furrow fungicides contain active ingredients for the control or suppression of seed-borne diseases, some fungal foliar diseases and some fungal root rots in cereal crops.

  • Yellow spot appears as tan elongated lesions with yellow margins, with leaf dying back from tip

    Managing yellow spot and septoria nodorum blotch in wheat

    5 December 2013

    Leaf spot diseases affecting wheat in Western Australia are septoria nodorum blotch, yellow spot and septoria tritici blotch.

  • A close up of barley heads affected with loose smut

    Controlling barley loose smut

    18 November 2014

    Loose smut control is necessary to preserve grain yield as affected plants do not produce grain.

  • Range of different colour and shape seeds

    Seed testing

    20 November 2013

    DDLS Seed Testing and Certification offers a wide range of tests to assess the quality of your seed.

  • Field pea crop

    Pea seed-borne mosaic virus in field peas

    2 July 2014

    Pea seed-borne mosaic virus (PSbMV) is a seed-borne and aphid-borne virus that causes yield losses and seed quality defects in field pea crops.

  • Working in the Seed laboratory

    DDLS - Seed testing and certification services

    19 November 2013

    The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development Diagnostic Laboratory Services (DDLS) - Seed Testing and Certification provides a variety of services including seed testing, crop and

  • Lupin crop

    Cucumber mosaic virus in narrow-leafed lupins

    26 November 2013

    Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is a seed- and aphid-borne virus that infects narrow-leafed lupins. It can also infect many other broad-leafed plant species.

  • Severe powdery mildew infection on strawberry

    Powdery mildew of strawberries

    13 January 2014

    Powdery mildew is a disease which is becoming more prevalent in Western Australian strawberry crops as increasing areas are being grown under high (Haygrove) tunnels.

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