@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 CCDM’s Associate Professor Julia Easton will present at #FoodAgilityCongress2026, showcasing how Food Agility-supported research is turning farm data into better decisions for growers, industry and government.
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@theccdm.bsky.socialThe CCDM team is committed to training the next generation of researchers tackling major crop disease challenges. Sophia Wertheim an undergraduate student at Curtin University whose research is helping to improve understanding of Ascochyta Blight in lentils.
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 The CCDM AAGI team recently visited AGT in Northam, touring a wheat breeding trial site and learning about the journey from research to new crop varieties. Thanks to Dion Bennett and Usman Ijaz for an insightful Breeding 101 crash course.
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌱 CCDM researchers Bernadette Henares and Nimllash Thangam will be presenting at the Pulse Pathology Meeting in Tamworth on 29 September.
Best of luck, Bernadette and Nim! 👏
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 CCDM researchers found that resistance to spot form net blotch can vary across different barley genetic backgrounds, highlighting the importance of testing resistance genes before deployment in breeding programs.
📖 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌱 CCDM researchers are screening lentil and chickpea breeding lines for resistance to Ascochyta blight, helping identify valuable genetic resistance that can support the development of more resilient pulse varieties for growers.
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 CCDM researchers have identified a mutation in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to SDHI (Group 7) fungicides.
Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/mutation-dis...
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 CCDM staff, Fatima Naim and Callum Verdonk, will be presenting their research at #ComBio2026 in Sydney on 30 September.
ComBio provides a platform for researchers to share cutting-edge discoveries and foster collaborations.
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@theccdm.bsky.social🎉 Congratulations to CCDM PhD student Ciara Gifford on winning the Kliti Grice Laureate Award. Her honours research used hyperspectral sensing to improve our understanding of wheat responses to yellow spot disease. 🌾👏
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌱 CCDM scientists have identified a mutation in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to SDHI fungicides (Group 7). It's an early warning and gives growers time to adapt management strategies.
Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/mutation-dis...
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@humanisingmen.bsky.socialTrials to kill gazanias and help farmers reclaim paddocks #gazanias #weedcontrol #GRDC
@theccdm.bsky.social🌱 Some of our Canola and Pulses team are scoring Sclerotinia severity in six canola varieties two weeks after inoculation. The results will support future disease management research.
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@theccdm.bsky.social📢 New paper published!
CCDM researchers have explored how the Australian Parastagonospora nodorum population has adapted to changes in wheat host genetics over time. 🌾
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@theccdm.bsky.social🌾 On the ground in Esperance! Our Canola and Pulses team is conducting annual field surveys, with a focus on Ascochyta lentis in lentil crops. Thanks to Andrea Hills, the growers and agronomists supporting this important work. 🌱 #GRDC,@curtinuniversity.bsky.social
