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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 : White leaf disease (WLD)
(Sugar Research Australia Limited, 2022)White leaf disease (WLD) was first recognized in Thailand in the 1950s. The disease has caused serious yield losses in Thailand and has some similarities to grassy shoot (GSD) and green grassy shoot diseases ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Information sheet : Sclerotial sett rot disease
Sclerotial sett rot (SSR) was first identified in 2016 at the SRA Woodford Pathology Farm on sugarcane setts sent for disease resistance screening trials. Up until now, it has not been reported anywhere else in the ...