Browsing by Author "Croft, BJ"
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A review of yield losses caused by Australian and selected exotic sugarcane diseases : SRDC final report BS1725
Magarey, RC; Croft, BJ (BSES, 1996)Yield loss studies of Australian endemic diseases, and those exotic diseases posing the greatest threat to production in Australia, are reviewed. There is a need for much research particularly in relating disease intensity ... -
Acquisition of Fiji disease virus by Perkinsiella saccharicida kirk and observations on its instars
Croft, BJ; Ryan, CC (BSES, 1984)The first, second and third instars of Perkinsiella saccharicida were the only stages which transmitted Fiji disease virus to healthy Q70 plants after a 48 hour access feed on diseased plants. A key to distinguish the ... -
AGR2008150 : Provision of research and development services for the Ord Sugarcane project
Croft, BJ; Webb, B; Piperidis, G (2009)BSES has provided the research and extension services to the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) sugar industry under a cooperative agreement with the WA Dept of Agriculture and Food since 2003. This contract was terminated ... -
AGR2008150 : Provision of research and development services for the Ord Sugarcane project
Croft, BJ; Webb, B; Piperidis, G (2010)The requirements for year 2 of the contract for the delivery of research and development services to the Ord sugar project have been fully achieved. The harvest results from two second ratoon, two first ratoon and two plant ... -
Bioassay for comparing levels of pythium graminicola in soils
Croft, BJ (BSES, 1987)In the study of any soil borne pathogen it is essential to have some technique for determining the level of the pathogen in the soil. The levels of Pythium species in soil have been measured by soil dilution plating on ... -
BS172S Pathogen risk analysis to prioritise research and quarantine needs of the Australian Sugar Industry
Croft, BJ (BSES, 1996)Sugarcane smut and RSD occur at a high incidence and severity in the Indonesian sugar industry. Indonesia plans to close small factories and plantations on Java and establish new plantations on Irian Jaya, East Timor and ... -
BS172S Pathogen Risk Analysis to Prioritise Research and Quarantine Needs of the Australian Sugar Industry. A Review of Sugarcane Diseases of Quarantine Risk to the Australian Sugar Industry, 1997
Croft, BJ; Magarey, RC (BSES, 1997)The major diseases of economic importance to sugarcane have been identified and their quarantine risk for Australia has been reviewed. Twelve high to moderate risk quarantinable diseases were identified. Sugarcane smut ... -
Development of a fungicide spray schedule to determine the effect of sugarcane rust (Puccinia melanocephala) on yield
Taylor, PWJ; Croft, BJ; Ryan, CC (BSES, 1984)This study reports on work carried out to develop a fungicide spray program which is suitable for yield loss assessment investigations. Aspects examined include the efficacy of various concentrations of chlorothalonil and ... -
Does rotating cultivars with intermediate resistance influence pachymetra root rot of sugarcane : ASSCT peer-reviewed paper
Jensen, AS; Croft, BJ; Parfitt, RC; Brown, PH (ASSCT, 2019)Concerns have been raised by industry members over lower than expected cane yields associated with high oospore levels in sugarcane cultivars rated to have intermediate resistance to pachymetra root rot. This is a significant ... -
Economic analysis of RSD control strategies : final report SRDC project BS101S
Croft, BJ; Page, JR; Bull, JK; Beattie, RN (BSES, 1995)The aim of this study was to compare the economics of the existing RSD control strategy in Australia of disease-free seed and disinfecting harvesters with breeding cultivars resistant to RSD. Analysis presented in this ... -
Effect of Phytocercomonas venanatans, the causal agent of chlorotic streak, on yield of commercial sugarcane cultivars : ASSCT poster paper
Ngo, AN; Wickramasinghe, P; Bratihwaite, KS; Croft, BJ (ASSCT, 2019) -
Effects of pachymetra root rot and nematodes on some elite sugarcane clones in Australia
Bhuiyan, SA; Croft, BJ; Wong, E; Ogden-Brown, J; Turner, M; Parfitt, R; Magarey, RC; Bull, J; Cox, MC (ASSCT, 2016)PACHYMETRA ROOT ROT and nematodes are the two most important soil-borne pathogens of sugarcane in Australia. An experiment was established in Yandaran, Queensland in grey forest soil with high Pachymetra spore counts (>100 ... -
How do current ratings of sugarcane varieties for resistance to smut relate to natural infection
Bhuiyan, SA; Cox, MC; Croft, BJ (ASSCT, 2018)SUGARCANE SMUT, CAUSED by a fungus Sporisorium scitamineum, is an important disease of sugarcane in Australia. Sugarcane smut can be managed effectively through the propagation of resistant varieties. In Sugar Research ... -
Identification of resistance mechanisms in sugarcane to infection by Pachymetra : SRDC final report BS79S
McGhie, TK; Maclean, D; Smith, GR; Croft, BJ (BSES, 1999)Project objectives- Develop techniques for studying the biochemical reactions of sugarcane to infection by Pachymetra.- Identify biochemical mechanisms of infection by Pachymetra.- Identify biochemical changes produced in ... -
Improving planting systems for sugarcane : SRDC Final report BSS208
Robotham, BG; Croft, BJ (2004)This project has researched the major factors affecting the establishment of a sugarcane crop. Adoption of a systems approach has resulted in an improved planting system that matches the requirements of the growing of ... -
Improving the Plant breeding selection system for Fiji Disease Resistance : SRDC final report BSS255
Croft, BJ; Ridley, AW; Dhileepan, K; James, AP (2005)Fiji leaf gall (FLG) has caused major epidemics in the Australian sugar industry in the past. All new cultivars of sugarcane released in areas affected by FLG should be resistant to the disease. New cultivars have been ... -
Influence of harvester basecutters on ratooning of sugarcane : SRDC Final report BSS123
Hurney, AP; Croft, BJ; Grace, D; Richards, DR (2005)Current single row mechanical sugarcane harvesters use twin rotary basecutters with multiple blades to produce an impact cut in the stalk at or near ground level. However, the cane stubble is often damaged during harvesting, ... -
Inheritance of resistance to pachymetra root rot : SRDC final report BS27S
Croft, BJ; Berding, N (BSES, 1994)Genetical resistance to root pathogens is a sensible strategy for disease control in a perennial crop such as sugarcane. Pachymetra root rot is a serious disease in Queensland and can cause losses of 30-40% in susceptible ... -
Literature review of methods of improving the germination of sugarcane : SRDC final report BSS208
Croft, BJ (2000)Sugarcane is propagated from vegetative cuttings of the stalk (setts or billets). The cuttings can be planted by hand or through mechanical whole-stalk or billet planters. Billet planters have given variable results ... -
New germplasm to develop more productive varieties with enhanced resistance to nematodes, pachymetra root rot and smut : final report 2011/344
Croft, BJ (Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2016)Sugarcane industries around the world were transformed in the early 1900s when Dutch plant breeders working in Indonesia, and Indian breeders, working independently, developed sugarcane varieties derived from the wild ...