herbicide tolerance trial

The project was designed to provide growers with information on the herbicide tolerance of new pasture legume species... As part of Project DAW00031, 90 yellow serradella accessions were evaluated for their tolerance to MCPA and metribuzin # across two replicated glasshouse experiments after laboriously extracting 150-250 seeds per accession by hand from pod segments... Initially all the accessions were evaluated for their tolerance to Jaguar, Lexone, MCPA and Tigrex over three experiments...

There is market demand for the production of Buloke in all Port Zones, although the demand is seasonally dependent in Geraldton and eastern parts of the Kwinana Port Zone (Table 3)... There is market demand for the production of Vlamingh in the Kwinana (seasonal in eastern areas), Albany and Esperance Port Zones, but no market demand in the Geraldton Port Zone (Table 3)... If accredited, Grange will offer growers improvements in agronomic performance (grain yield, grain quality and disease resistance) over the established malting varieties Baudin, Buloke and Gairdner...

Thank you to National Variety Trials (NVT), the NVT trial co-operators and breeding organisations for their cooperation in providing data... There is still some re-focusing required to maximise the opportunities for growers and maximise the opportunities for the trade... Varietal resistance to BYD and CYD does not reduce the need to spray for aphids to prevent yield loss from feeding damage once they reach threshold levels in the crop (50% of tillers with 15 or more aphids)...