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Information sheet : Approved, released and recommended varieties; What is the difference?
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
This information sheet explains:
Information sheet : Assessing the sugar content of a crop for managing the harvesting sequence
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
The Commercial Cane Sugar (CCS) of a crop can vary due to the variety; age of the crop; arrowing; and moisture; nutrient; or temperature stress. Growers can use a refractometer prior to each harvesting round to enable them to select blocks to harvest with potentially higher CCS to maximise whole-farm sugar yield.
Information sheet : Best-practice nutrient management
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
Modification of the traditional nutrient management guidelines for sugarcane production in Australia has been in progress for the past 10 years. The need for change occurred with a realisation that nutrient management should no longer only target sugarcane yields, but should be aimed at sustainability.
Information sheet : Burdekin Plant Breeding Program
(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 : Central Region Plant Breeding Program
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
The SRA Plant Breeding Program in the Central region targets the needs of the Plane Creek, Mackay and Proserpine sugar industries.
Information sheet : Central Region Variety Development Program
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
The SRA Variety Development Program in the Central region targets the needs of the Plane Creek, Mackay and Proserpine sugar industries.
Information sheet : Changes to biosecurity in the Australian sugar industry
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
Biosecurity is the protection of the Australian Sugar Industry from infectious diseases, pests and other biological threats. It is achieved through systems that aim to prevent pest and disease introduction or spread, or control an outbreak. The purpose of this regulation is to prevent the movement of important sugarcane pests and diseases on machinery or in plant material through the sugarcane producing areas.
Information sheet : Chlorotic streak
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
Chlorotic streak is found in all sugarcane growing areas in eastern Australia and can cause serious yield losses, particularly in flood prone or waterlogged parts of the industry. The disease is one of the most widespread and common diseases within the Australian sugarcane industry.
Information sheet : Cleaning a harvester before transport
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)
The regulation around the movement of sugarcane machinery has changed with the implementation of the Biosecurity Act 2014 and Biosecurity Regulation 2016. In order to move machinery across sugarcane biosecurity zone boundaries, the appliance will require a Plant Health Assurance Certificate (PHAC) available through the local productivity service or Biosecurity Queensland.
Information sheet : Crossing
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2013)
Information sheet : Do I have Yellow Canopy Syndrome?
(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?
(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 world and, consequently, was known as ‘common’ rust. It appeared in Australia in 1978. Orange rust, although present in Australia since the 1890s, was considered a rare disease.
Information sheet : Fiji leaf gall
(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)
(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 caused serious yield losses in Thailand and Vietnam. GGSD is very similar to Grassy shoot disease (GSD), first seen in India in the 1940s. In 2006, GGSD was recognized for the first time in Vietnam and is currently causing a major disease epidemic in that country, particularly in Nghe An Province.
Information sheet : Herbert Plant Breeding Program
(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
(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
(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
(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 and is therefore more severe. There are four stages of damage.
Information sheet : Mobile maturity tester
(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 SRA) and has been tested on all commercial sugar cane varieties.
Information sheet : Nematode resistant legumes as a rotational crop with sugarcane
(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 and spiral nematodes, but these nematodes rarely cause serious damage.