Did you have Botrytis on your #Chickpea seed last year? These are the 'bunches of grapes' or spores under the microscope. Part of the Chickpea Seed Health Testing that @nswdpi at Tamworth is doing for the growers. @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY GRDC GRDC North

😀MEET THE TEAM😀 Say hi to Toni Petronaitis, a plant pathologist based @nswdpi Tamworth Keen on: ◾️Stubble born pathogens & how they survive & act post harvest ◾️Seeing if we exploit something in the fallow to help control these diseases eg Crown Rot GRDC GRDC North

🎧PODCAST: "Chickpea diseases - seasonal update" With @nswdpi's Kevin Moore & Hayley Wilson What's happening with: ▪️Ascochyta ▪️Botrytis Other diseases ...and how to manage them Link⬇️ soundcloud.com/user-889937785… GRDC GRDC North #chickpeas #HereToHelp #pathologyisfun

Let a chickpea pathologist loose with Ascochyta and you get sick plants. Keen to see the yield penalty of early, mid and late infection! The early disease plot looks very sad. GRDC North @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY

Harvest height implications for fusarium management. Is there a downside to stripper fronts? Toni Petronaitis @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY on her research. #GRDCUpdates Paper: bit.ly/3IWSYG0

Nitrogen impacts on crown-rot and implications for management. Mitch Buster from @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY reports on his research. #GRDCUpdates. Paper: bit.ly/3rpwlEo

Over 4000 pots of #chickpea sown this week by SARDI PIRSA for Program 3 investment by @thegrdc: identify & characterise novel sources of #AscochytaBlight resistance in elite lines & wild cicer. Tim Sutton Kristy Hobson Also for @NVT_Online has moved to @GRDC_NVT disease ratings review

Stay tuned as we study the nasty new Ascochyta strains in the field! GRDC North Ido Bar

#trialsareus Pretty chuffed with the way the new Chickpea Breeding Australia infrastructure at #tamworth is working ...this misting system bound to to make the nasty ascochyta🦠critters take off!! A joint project between GRDC & @nswdpi GRDC North Kristy Hobson #chickpeas

Current 2022 season wheat stripe rust map from PBI Cobbitty, University of Sydney GRDC of samples submitted to Australian Cereal Rust Survey. It is around google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

A message from Steven Simpfendorfer: "Get out there & monitor your crops. Reports in of stripe rust round Tulloona likely the 239 pathotype. As Johnny Howard says ‘be alert, not alarmed’. Third consecutive wet season always going to be favourable for stripe rust" GRDC North @nswdpi