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 -
- Type the issue in the main search bar (Search this site) and select search;
- 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
- Fusarium Stalk Rot (Sorghum)
- Leaf Rust (Barley)
- Leaf Rust (Sorghum)
- Mungbean Disease
- Powdery Mildew (Canola)
- Powdery Mildew (Mungbean)
- Root-Lesion Nematode
- Rust (Faba bean)
- Spot Form Net Blotch
- Stripe Rust
- Yellow Spot
Weeds:
- African Turnip Weed (Sisymbrium thellungii)
- Awnless Barnyard Grass (Echinochloa colona)
- Annual Ryegrass (Lolium rigidum)
- Button Grass (Dactyloctenium radulans)
- Broadleaf Weeds (Chickpeas)
- 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)
- Mungbean Herbicide Screen
- Paradoxa grass (Phalaris paradoxa)
- Polymeria
- Scurvy Weed (Commelina cyanea)
- Slender Celery (Cyclospermum leptophyllum)
- Sorghum Herbicides
- 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)
Pests:
- Rutherglen Bug (Nysius vinitor)
- Winter Cereal Aphids
General:
- Barley Plant Growth Regulators
- Chickpea Desiccation
- Chickpea Plant Growth Regulators
- Cotton Cut-Stump
- Cover Cropping
- Faba bean Desiccation
- Harvest Aids (Canola)
- Harvest Aids (Wheat)
- Herbicide Crop Safety
- Horizontal Nutrient Stratification
- Impact from Canola in Rotation
- Nitrogen Mineralisation & Fallow Efficiency
- Rhizobia Inoculation (Chickpeas)
- Soil Remediation
- Sorghum Plant Growth Regulators
- Sorghum Spray-Out
- Water Use Efficiency
Nutrition:
- Barley Nutrition
- Canola Nutrition
- Chickpea Nutrition
- Mungbean Nutrition
- Sorghum Nutrition
- Wheat Nutrition