The Crop Protection team provides industry with effective, rapid and efficient on-farm management strategies to minimise losses from pests, weeds and diseases.
The team generate new technologies for the early identification of pests, weeds and diseases while including reduced chemical input.
Crop Protection Research Priorities
- Use ‘Smart’ methods for the early detection of pests, weeds and diseases.
- Reduce chemical footprint: reduced or no pesticides.
- Understand the biology, epidemiology, ecology and adaptation to identify weak spots.
- Integrate new technologies into farm and regional management packages.
- Work with growers, grower groups and agronomists for profitable WA farming systems.
Priority Projects
- National Grains Diagnostic and Surveillance Initiative (NGDSI) [2]
- Effective control of brome grass in the southern and western cropping zones [3]
- Epidemiology and management of Rhizoctonia in low and medium rainfall zones [4]
- Disease epidemiology, modelling and delivery of management decision support tools [5]
- Furthering grower knowledge and understanding of the scientifically unidentified 'Dongara weevil' [6]
- Investigating systems for the control of Desiantha weevil in relation to resistance and biology in WA [7]
- More effective control of pest snails in Australian grain crops [8]
- What is the best fit for Electric Weed Control in Australia? [9]
- Effective virus management in grain crops [10]