Pest, disease and weed management

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Research outcomes: A comprehensive RD&E program that addresses existing and emerging pests, diseases and weeds, allowing sugarcane growers to manage their crops efficiently with minimal environmental impacts. An enhanced industry capacity to deal with incursions of exotic pests, diseases and weeds.

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Inheritance of resistance to pachymetra root rot : SRDC final report BS27S
(BSES, 1994) Croft, BJ; Berding, N
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 varieties. An understanding of the mode of inheritance of resistance is important in developing breeding strategies.
Resistance mechanisms and selection for resistance in sugarcane to sugarcane weevil borer : SRDC final report BSS15
(BSES, 2005) Berding, N
This project primarily sought to determine resistance mechanisms and selection mechanisms for resistance in sugarcane to SWB (Sugarcane weevil borer). As such it addressed the SRDC strategies of developing more productive cultivars by increasing clonal resistance to insect pests, and of developing resource management practices that ensure sustainable productivity through the expanded use of GCTB. From prior assessment of SWB infestation in parental clones at BSES Meringa and clones in advanced selection trials in the crop-improvement program based on on BSES Meringa, as well as reference to existing literature, reaction to SWB infestation obviously is a multifaceted trait that may encompass many individual plant traits. This research was based on a hypothesis that attempted to cover as many of these traits and their possible interaction with the insect.
Screening of Australian germplasm for resistance to sugarcane smut - SRDC final project report BSS214
(BSES, 2004) Croft, BJ; Berding, N
Sugarcane smut is a destructive disease that has spread to all commercial sugarcane production areas except Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the east coast of Australia. The disease was recorded for the first time in Australia in July 1998 in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA). The objective of this project was to rate Australian commercial cultivars, advanced selections in the BSES/CSIRO and CSR breeding programs and parental clones for resistance to smut. The ratings will be used to provide smut-resistant cultivars to the ORIA and prepare the east coast industry for a possible incursion.BSES negotiated a contract with the Indonesian Sugar Research Institute (ISRI) to conduct smut resistance screening in Indonesia in 1997 before the incursion in Western Australia. The contract was renegotiated after the incursion to accelerate the testing program. The decision to conduct the testing in Indonesia was made because the quarantine period to move clones to Indonesia was shorter than moving clones to Western Australia. The screening is conducted on Madura Island, which is isolated from commercial cane, and clones can be planted into the smut resistance trials after 1 year in an open quarantine plot. Initially, Indonesia allowed 296 clones that were in the BSES quarantine houses to be screened for resistance with no quarantine period in Indonesia. This allowed BSES to obtain resistance ratings on these clones within 1 year of the incursion of smut into Australia.
Smut-proofing the Australian industry - ensuring a reliable cane supply through reduced genetic vulnerability to sugarcane smut
(BSES, 2009) Croft, BJ; Berding, N
Since the smut incursion and subsequent spread of the disease breeding for smut resistance has become an essential priority for the BSES-CSIRO Variety Improvement program. The strategy that has been adopted includes the SmutBuster program which aims to maintain advances in breeding for productivity while ensuring that all new varieties have adequate smut resistance.