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Item Provision of improved varieties and pathology services for the Ord Sugar Industry : final report CTA043(2003) Jackson, PThis project was established to introduce and evaluate new sugarcane varieties into the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA), and to provide advice on pathology issues relating to the ORIA. Cultivars in the ORIA currently are old (introduced in 1980 or before) and it is believed that newer varieties bred since then could provide improved productivity and profitability for the ORIA industry. Varieties were initially chosen for introduction to the ORIA based mostly on commercial performance in north Queensland. They were transferred to the ORIA via a three to four year process that aimed to reduce the risk of inadvertently introducing important diseases present in Queensland but which are not present in the ORIA. Professional pathology advice was provided in supervising this process and ensuring plant material was apparently disease free at various points in the process. Pathology related advice was also provided to Agriculture Western Australia staff and growers on specific crop management matters in the ORIA throughout the project. The directions taken in this project were greatly impacted on by the discovery of smut disease in the ORIA in 1998. This was the first time this disease had been found in Australia. It has a potentially devastating effect on productivity of susceptible varieties. The environmental conditions in the ORIA are highly favourable to smut infection, and a high level of resistance is required in cultivars for sustainable production. It was very fortunate that three cultivars in the ORIA at the time of the outbreak were resistant, and this enabled the industry to maintain productivity levels much better than it otherwise would have. However, in 1998 little was known about the relative smut resistance of most Australian varieties. As testing for smut resistance proceeded in the next few years in Indonesia by BSES (through BSS214) and by the CTA043 project team in the ORIA, it became apparent that around 80% of varieties from Australian breeding programs were too susceptible to smut to be grown commercially in the ORIA.Item AGR2008150 : Provision of research and development services for the Ord Sugarcane project(2010) Croft, BJ; Webb, B; Piperidis, GThe 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 crop yield trials were analysed using BSES statistical procedures and the analysed results were provided to the WA Dept of Agriculture and Food. These data were used to identify promising new varieties for further propagation. Barry Croft, BSES Program leader biosecurity (Plant pathologist), and George Piperidis, BSES Program Leader Variety Adoption (Plant Breeder), visited the Ord from the 24-27 May 2010. They inspected selected varieties in yield trials and propagation plots for sugarcane smut, top rot and other diseases and made notes on growth of the varieties. Recommendations were made on the maintenance and further propagation of varieties that have performed well in yield trials and have acceptable reaction to sugarcane smut and top rot. A heavy infestation of scale insects was noted on a few varieties in the 2008 propagation plot in block 6B. These insects have been seen before but this was a particularly severe infestation and the variety Q208 which has performed well in the Ord and is the major variety in Queensland was one of the varieties affected. A borer that was attacking rice was collected. BSES is currently involved in an Australian Centre for Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded project investigating biological control of borer species attacking sugarcane in Indonesia. Part of this study is to collaborate with other research groups that are DNA barcoding endemic and exotic moth borers and these samples will be submitted for DNA barcoding.Item Provision of improved varieties and pathology services for the Ord Sugar Industry : Final report CTA043(2012) Jackson, PThis project was established to introduce and evaluate new sugarcane varieties into the Ord river Irrigation Area (ORIA), and to provide advice on pathology issues relating to the ORIA. Cultivars in the ORIA currently are old (introduced in 1980 or before) and it is believed that newer varieties bred since then could provide improved productivity and profitability for the ORIA industry.