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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.Item Review of the R&D response to sugarcane smut with special reference to the SmutBuster Research Program : 16-20 February 2009(BSES, 2009) Hoy, J; McIntosh, B; Hogarth, DMThe BSES-CSIRO sugarcane improvement joint venture was successful in obtaining the funding for work towards the development of productive, smut-resistant varieties in a project called SmutBuster. The SRDC-BSES research agreement for the SmutBuster project includes a requirement to review the breeding strategy for smut resistance. In January 2009, BSES commissioned Professor Jeff Hoy, Louisiana State University, Professor Bob McIntosh, University of Sydney, and Dr Mac Hogarth, formerly with BSES and SRDC, to conduct the review.Item Reducing the Australian sugar industry's genetic vulnerability to sugarcane smut : SRDC final report BSS256(2007) Croft, BJ; Berding, NSugarcane smut was recorded for the first time in Australia in July 1998 in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) and was identified in the Bundaberg/Isis, Central and Herbert regions of Queensland in 2006. Sugarcane smut can cause losses from 30-100% in susceptible varieties. The objective of this project was to rate Australian commercial varieties, advanced selections in the BSES/CSIRO selection programs, and parental clones for resistance to smut. The ratings will be used to provide smut- resistant varieties to the Australian sugar industry and to assist the breeding program to increase the frequency of smut-resistant genes in breeding populations.This project continues the work commenced in the SRDC project BSS214 Screening of Australian Germplasm for Resistance to Sugarcane Smut. The smut-screening trials were conducted on Madura Island by the Indonesian Sugar Research Institute (ISRI) under contract to BSES.Item Sugarcane smut yield-loss estimates - eastern Australia 2006 : Responses to questions raised by the consultative committee on emergency plant pests(BSES, 2006) Croft, BJ; Allsopp, PG; Egan, BT; Hogarth, DMThis document has been prepared by BSES scientists with extensive experience with sugarcane smut. It is based on our reviews of published literature and first-hand experience with smut in the Ord River Irrigation area and Childers-Bundaberg regions of Australia.