Pulse Week - with chickpea and lentil prices in recent months being over $800/t and field pea and faba bean over $600/t it is a good time to consider if pulses have a fit on your WA farm.

🔬🌾 Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬🎉 At CCDM, we’re proud of the incredible women in our centre working to lessen the impact of disease in the Australian grains industry! 👩‍🌾💡 Here’s to empowering women in ag science today & every day! 🚀

🎫 Have you got your tickets for the #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025? Catch Mark Derbyshire presenting on new breeding lines and field screening methods for developing sclerotinia stem rot resistant canola cultivars 🧬 📅 Mon 24 Feb | 🕑 4:35pm | 📍Session 11 GRDC Curtin University

🎫 Are you coming to the #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025? Catch Kat Zulak as she joins a panel discussion on career opportunities in the grains industry 👩‍🌾 📅 Mon 24 Feb | 🕑 4:00pm | 📍 Session 10 Grain Career Opportunities Register here 👉 buff.ly/4gr7XZm GRDC Curtin University

🎫 The #GRDCUpdates Perth 2025 are right around the corner! Catch Leon Hodgson presenting on geospatial mapping of resistance to fungicides; informing disease management practice 👩‍💻 📅 Tue 25 Feb |🕑 11:45am |📍Session 14 👉 buff.ly/4gr7XZm GRDC NGIS #AAGI

Have you said hi to any of our researchers at #GRDCUpdates at Perth 👋 Plenty of our staff and students will be wandering around over the two day event, ready to chat about all things crop disease 🌱🦠 Don’t miss our stall at the back of the exhibition hall 🚜 GRDC Curtin University

Great job to our CCDM students who just finished presenting at the #GRDCUpdates New Researchers session 👏 Be sure to find them during the updates to ask any burning questions you have on their intriguing research GRDC GRDC West Curtin University Viet-Cuong Han Anjana Sharma Mohitul Hossain

In the wake of #IWD2025, we’re highlighting incredible women at CCDM! 👩‍🔬🌾 Meet Dr. Irina Kuznetsova, a bioinformatics expert on the AAGI project using her skills in data analysis and genomics to enhance crop resilience and sustainable agriculture. 🌱🔬

Interested in improving resilience to frost in wheat? 🌾❄️ Two exciting Gulbali Institute PhD opportunities Charles Sturt University are currently available within national GRDC projects in collaboration with CSIRO DPIRDWA PIRSA . More information: research.csu.edu.au/graduate-resea…

Did you know that the IFLRC/APC conference Abstract submissions are now open and close the 11th of April? The conference organisers look forward to receiving your submissions!

🎉 Happy 11th Birthday to CCDM 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey, including our researchers, students, industry partners, and the agriculture community. Here’s to another year of breakthroughs, partnerships, and progress🌾 🌿 👋 GRDC Curtin University

🦠🌱 The National Pulse Pathology Workshop is coming to Perth as part of #IFLRC8 & #APC5 this September! Join pulse pathologists & researchers from across Australia to share seasonal updates, key findings & the latest in pulse disease research. 🔗 buff.ly/CwpPdl2

Looking forward to being able to share our work on simulating yield loss from Sclerotinia in canola

Well done to my PhD student Viet-Cuong Han presenting a summary of his work on the impact of the soil microbiome on persistence of sclerotia of Sclerotinia at #BotryScleroMono, Thessaloniki, Greece CCDM

Following an excellent presentation by Lisa Rothmann on disease modelling in Sclerotinia at #BotryScleroMono, it was great to be able to present our work on simulating SSR in canola in the field to estimate yield loss and when it is economical to spray CCDM GRDC

Pippa Michael presenting our work at #BotryScleroMono on developing a robust screening method for reproducible Sclerotinia infection in canola and lupins. Watch this space for the publication which has just been accepted in Plant Disease CCDM GRDC

🌿 Save the Date! The 2026 Australian Agronomy Conference heads to Darwin 1-4 June🌞For the first time EVER in the NT, we’ll explore “Agronomy for a Diverse Future” with field trips, top speakers & tropical innovation.👉aapevents.eventsair.com/aa2026/ Charles Darwin University GRDC GRDC North

The Australian Agronomy Conference goes to Darwin next year. Call for abstracts is now open

Is there any resistance to Sclerotinia in a diverse screen of narrow leaf lupin germplasm - stem inoculation at Curtin progressing nicely with all hands on deck required, field inoculation still to take place CCDM WA Agricultural Research Collaboration Rachael Crockett Lars Kamphuis

Student spotlight🌾 Nimllash Thangam is a PhD student working to develop durable resistance in lentil to Ascochyta lentis, using breeding and molecular tools like effector protein analysis 🧬 Catch him at the FameLab Australia Finals buff.ly/rlEKPsI GRDC Curtin University