Results and Publications

Topics of R&D Activity


NGA has been involved in R&D activity across a wide range of issues covering disease, weed, pest and nutrition themes. Below is a list detailing the range of key issues on which NGA has undertaken trial work. To search for available information on any of these themes -


  • To find the locations of trial activity for each theme - Select the Trial Locations tab and then search for the theme in All Categories.


Diseases:

  • Ascochyta Blight (Chickpeas)
  • Botrytis Seedling Blight (Chickpeas)
  • Botryosphaeria spp. (White Grain Disorder)
  • Chocolate Spot (Faba bean)
  • Crown Rot
  • Fusarium Head Blight (Wheat)
  • Fusarium Stalk Rot (Sorghum)
  • Leaf Diseases (Sorghum)
  • Leaf Rust (Barley)
  • Leaf Rust (Sorghum)
  • Mungbean Diseases
  • Net Form Net Blotch
  • Powdery Mildew (Canola)
  • Powdery Mildew (Mungbean)
  • Root-Lesion Nematode (Pratylenchus thornei)
  • Rust (Faba bean)
  • Spot Form Net Blotch
  • Stripe Rust
  • Yellow Spot


Weeds:

  • African Turnip Weed (Sisymbrium thellungii)
  • Annual Ryegrass (Lolium rigidum)
  • Annual Saltbush (Atriplex muelleri)
  • Awnless Barnyard Grass (Echinochloa colona)
  • Bull-head (Tribulus eichlerianus)
  • Button Grass (Dactyloctenium radulans)
  • Broadleaf Weeds (Chickpeas)
  • Caltrop (Tribulus terrestris)
  • Canadian Fleabane (Conyza canadensis)
  • Climbing Buckwheat (Fallopia convolvulus)
  • Common Sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus)
  • Cressa (Cressa australis)
  • Feathertop Rhodes Grass (Chloris virgata)
  • Flaxleaf Fleabane (Conyza bonariensis)
  • Liverseed Grass (Urochloa panicoides)
  • Mexican Poppy (Argemone ochroleuca)
  • Mitchell Grass (Astrebla spp)
  • Paradoxa grass (Phalaris paradoxa)
  • Pigweed
  • Polymeria
  • Queensland Bluegrass (Dichanthium sericeum)
  • Scurvy Weed (Commelina cyanea)
  • Slender Celery (Cyclospermum leptophyllum)
  • Spear Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
  • Spiny Emex (Emex australis)
  • Stink Grass (Eragrostis cilianensis)
  • Summer Fallow (Residuals)
  • Tall Fleabane (Conyza sumatrensis)
  • Tarvine (Boerhavia dominii)
  • Tribulus spp
  • Turnip Weed (Rapistrum rugosum)
  • Urochloa praetervisa
  • Variegated Thistle (Silybum marianum)
  • Volunteer Canola
  • Wild Oats (Avena spp)
  • Windmill Grass (Chloris truncata)
  • Yellow Vine (Tribulus micrococcus)


Pests:

  • Rutherglen Bug (Nysius vinitor)
  • Winter Cereal Aphids


General:

  • Barley Plant Growth Regulators
  • Chickpea Desiccation
  • Chickpea Plant Growth Regulators
  • Chickpea Sowing Set-Up
  • Cotton Cut-Stump
  • Cover Cropping
  • Faba bean Desiccation
  • Fallow Efficiency
  • Harvest Aids (Canola)
  • Harvest Aids (Wheat)
  • Herbicide Crop Safety
  • Long Term Controlled Traffic
  • Impact from Canola in Rotation
  • Mungbean Herbicide Screen
  • Nitrogen Mineralisation 
  • Rhizobia Inoculation (Chickpeas)
  • Seed Treatment
  • Soil Remediation
  • Sorghum Herbicides
  • Sorghum Plant Growth Regulators
  • Sorghum Spray-Out


Nutrition:

  • Barley Nutrition
  • Canola Nutrition
  • Chickpea Nutrition
  • Mungbean Nutrition
  • Sorghum Nutrition
  • Wheat Nutrition
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