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    • Information sheet : Do I have Yellow Canopy Syndrome? 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)
      Yellow Canopy Syndrome (YCS) is a newly identified condition impacting sugarcane crops in north Queensland.

    • Information sheet : Do you know your rusts? 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      There are two well-known rust diseases of sugarcane – orange rust caused by Puccinia kuehnii and brown rust caused by Puccinia melanocephala. During the 1970s brown rust spread to many sugar industries throughout the ...

    • Information sheet : Fiji leaf gall 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      Fiji leaf gall (FLG) has caused major disease epidemics in the Australian sugarcane industry. The most severe epidemic occurred in the 1970-1980 period in the Bundaberg region when the susceptible variety NCo310 was widely grown.

    • Information sheet : Green grassy shoot disease (GGSD) 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      Green grassy shoot disease (GGSD) was recognized for the first time in Thailand in the mid-1990s. Caused by a phytoplasma – a very small organism that lives in the phloem of the vascular bundles, the disease has ...

    • Information sheet : Herbert Plant Breeding Program 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Herbert region targets the needs of the local sugar industry through the optimised selection and release of more productive and disease-resistant varieties.

    • Information sheet : How to order sugarcane tissue culture 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      An SRA biotechnology innovation for rapid, large-scale production of clean sugarcane seed cane.

    • Information sheet : Leaf sampling for DNA fingerprinting 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      DNA fingerprinting is an extremely sensitive method for sugarcane variety identification. The following guidelines should be followed when collecting leaf samples for DNA fingerprinting analysis at AGRF.

    • Information sheet : Managing frost damage 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      Frost damage to sugarcane will vary with landscape position (it is generally worse in hollows and creek flats), variety and the openness of the crop. In small, open crops, damage goes further down the stalk ...

    • Information sheet : Mobile maturity tester 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2014)
      The Mobile Maturity Tester is a new generation of high-throughput, go anywhere sugar cane tester for maturity testing. The Mobile Maturity Tester is the result of four years of research and development by BSES (now ...

    • Information sheet : Nematode resistant legumes as a rotational crop with sugarcane 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      The two main types of nematodes that cause damage to sugarcane are root lesion nematode (RLN) and root knot nematodes (RKN). There are many other types of nematodes that can affect sugarcane, such as dagger ...

    • Information sheet : Northern Plant Breeding Program 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Northern region targets the needs of the local sugar industry through the optimised selection and release of more productive and disease-resistant varieties.

    • Information sheet : NSW Plant Breeding Program 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      The SRA Plant Breeding Program in NSW targets the needs of the NSW sugar industry. The program optimises the selection of both 1- and 2-year varieties by inter-linking with the Southern program based in Bundaberg and ...

    • Information sheet : Planting and managing your tissue culture plantlets in the field 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      Planting and managing your tissue culture plantlets in the field, Info Sheet IS13086

    • Information sheet : Pokkah boeng 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      This fungus disease is found in all sugarcane growing regions, and generally occurs from late spring to the end of summer. It normally appears during periods of hot humid conditions when the cane is growing rapidly. ...

    • Information sheet : Sclerotial sett rot disease 

      Unknown author
      Sclerotial sett rot (SSR) was first identified in 2016 at the SRA Woodford Pathology Farm on sugarcane setts sent for disease resistance screening trials. Up until now, it has not been reported anywhere else in the ...

    • Information sheet : SmutBuster Program 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      What is SmutBuster?

    • Information sheet : Soil sampling 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      Soil sampling provides useful information about the chemical and nutrient properties of soil within a particular block. It will therefore assist in determining fertiliser type and rate. Soil sampling also ...

    • Information sheet : Soldier fly 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
      Soldier flies are native insects that naturally inhabit grasslands and can cause severe damage to sugarcane crops. There are two main species of soldier fly that attack sugarcane. Sugarcane soldier fly occurs ...

    • Information sheet : Southern Region Plant Breeding Program 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Southern region targets the needs of the Bundaberg, Isis, Maryborough and Rocky Point sugar industries.

    • Information sheet : Sugarcane tissue culture 

      Unknown author (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
      Creating new options for variety release and adoption.