#wheat

Why Aussie farmers should start sowing earlier than Anzac Day

For wheat farmer's, Anzac Day is traditionally seen as the first day of the sowing season, however with increasing variability in weather conditions and other environmental factors, our researchers are recommending farmer's get an early start for bigger yields

Keeping the rust out of Aussie wheat – go team!

The CSIRO rust research team is having a great month, their recent paper has appeared on the cover of Science […]

Australian wheat has a new defence to a rusty old problem

By Evans Lagudah, Chief Research Scientist and Sambasivam Periyannan, Postdoctoral Fellow. Rusts are a type of fungal disease that affect […]

Spectacular wheat yield increase in salty soils

A salt-tolerant variety of durum wheat that outperforms other varieties by 25 per cent on salty soils has been developed […]