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Matt Williams retweeted
Cereal Rust Report 2026, Vol. 22 Issue 3 and 2 (wheat) is now available, with updated information on resistance in Australian barley and wheat cultivars @theGRDC @GRDCNorth @GRDCSouth @GRDC_NVT Read the barley report: tinyurl.com/3j6z3wzc Wheat report: tinyurl.com/bdh8nthd
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Dr Lisle Snyman always knew she wanted to work in plant science. A principal plant pathologist for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Lisle has been awarded 2026 GRDC Seed of Light North Award for her contribution to the grains industry.
Projects of note include GRDC-related research initiatives such as 3 Net Blotch Consortium projects, national net form net blotch pathotyping and National Variety Trials disease screening.
Listen now 🎧 bit.ly/4hwgLS3
#GRDCPodcast #SeedofLight #GrainsExtension #Leadership
Matt Williams retweeted
From inoculated plants to field trials, disease is now establishing across the NVT trial @davs_singh areas at PBI Cobbitty, supporting the assessment of disease response and varietal performance under inoculated field conditions @GRDC_NVT @theGRDC @GRDCNorth @mumchh @MattWillrust
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Our 2026 cereal rust survey map is live: google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1…
Wheat stripe rust has been confirmed at Galong, NSW, as pathotype 239. Please stay vigilant and report cereal rust to your regional pathologist.
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4th of Sept 2025 - Thank you to LLS Plant Biosecurity Coordinators from across NSW & the Regional Plant Biosecurity Officers, Dept of Primary Industries, for visiting PBI Cobbitty and connecting with the Australian Cereal Rust Team
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Happening now Australian Cereal Rust Control Program Spring Meeting at PBI Cobbitty, University of Sydney
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😎The man, the myth (??), the legend!!!
A HUGE CONGRATS to Simphy who was awarded the 2025 Brownhill Cup at the annual @AgQuip Grower Forum 2025!
Well deserved by someone who can complex disease scenarios into farm ready solutions….normally with a few jokes thrown in!
Matt Williams retweeted
🔈Oat stem rust found near York. Bacterial blight and septoria avenae blotch also present. Growers should monitor crops and follow biosecurity measure to reduce spread of rust.
📰Read the latest #PestFactsWA newsletter dpird.wa.gov.au/siteassets/d…
Matt Williams retweeted
Stripe Rust has made it to the top of the hill! Last week we found Stripe Rust in RMR rated Beaufort in the @far_australia Crop Technology Centre at Wallendbeen, NSW. @Price_Tom97
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We’ve been seeing stripe rust for a few weeks now but only very isolated. Looks to be a later developing year so far. Interested to hear if anyone else is seeing any in their travels. Scepter no fert or foliar fungicide in this pic @s_simpfendorfer
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🌿🌾The final inspections of the new 3.6ha bird protection structure at the University of Sydney Westwood farm took place last week in Camden. This addition will create security from wildlife damage for high value winter cereals and greatly benefit research of the ACRCP 🌾🌿
ALT The new 'cage' was funded from a $1,524,484 GRDC Infrastructure grant awarded to Prof Brent N. Kaiser in 2023. The ‘Enhanced Grains Research Infrastructure Investment in NSW’ grant allowed for the construction of the Westwood cage, a new lateral irrigation line for the IA Watson Research Institute in Narrabri and the purchase of an ICP-Mass Spectrometer to be located within the soils group in South Eveleigh. The Cereal Rust Laboratory at Cobbitty hosts the Australian Cereal Rust Control Program (ACRCP), which continues one of the longest running research efforts at the University of Sydney.
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The room is full and the energy is high as #ICRPMC2025 gets underway! Great to see so many friends, collaborators, and new faces gathered to advance global wheat science and food security. #BGRI @17thICRPMC
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🚨 Yellow rust virulence to Yr15 has been confirmed in multiple regions across continental Europe — raising global concern.
This key resistance gene is widely used in commercial wheat, and its effectiveness is now in jeopardy.
🔗 agro.au.dk/forskning/interna…
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It’s none other than @striiformis who runs our stripe rust program (gracefully) right from screening breeding material & mapping populations, inoculating rust nursery, and race typing. I call him walking encyclopedia of rust fungal taxonomy & biology.
Wrap this week up with a touch of rust
It makes plants sick, betray their trust.
It’s kinda sad, but here’s the plus:
We study it to learn — and that’s a must!
#rust_poetry
Matt Williams retweeted
Professor Robert Park from @Sydney_Uni, our 2024 Problem Solver winner, with @JasonClareMP, @LisaPaul_AO_PSM Chair of the judging panel #ShapingAustraliaAwards25 and UA Chair Prof David Lloyd at the #UASolutionsSummit25 dinner.
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.@BradBaxter1985 @NSW_AGRONOMY giving us the latest NSW fungicide resistance update and status of cereal pathogens. Important knowledge going into winter crop 2025. Paper: bit.ly/4b4TZLP
#Corowa #GRDCUpdates
