Plant virologist. Grain legumes, oilseeds, cotton. Previously bananas and veggies. Comments are mine.
Joined August 2016
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Murray Sharman retweeted
NEMATODE MONDAY Good visiting with Dinesh Kafle @DineshCotton to discuss his reniforn nematode project w/t the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries in Queensland at the poster session of the AustralAsian Plant Pathology Conference in Adelaide @Plant_Pathogens #2023APPSAdelaide – at Adelaide, South Australia
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Very interesting talk from David Guest about using dogs to sniff for Phytophthora infections @Plant_Pathogens #2023APPSAdelaide – at Adelaide, South Australia
After about 120 talks and probably greater than 2000 slides of high quality plant pathology research, questions and challenges, that's a wrap for #2023APPSAdelaide. @Plant_Pathogens
Rohan Kimber taking his APPS session Chair role to next level with his Nerf gun time keeper 😀
@Plant_Pathogens
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Murray Sharman retweeted
🩲🌱 SOIL YOUR UNDIES NOW🩲🌱
If you bury some 100% cotton undies this week/end you can dig them up in 7-8 weeks time on World Soil Day (Dec 5) + get an excellent measure of microbial activity in your dirt!
REO in the Gwydir @NellMontH2O did just that this morning-stay tuned!
Kaitlyn Bissonnette (US Cotton Incorporated) sharing the challenges in US cotton at the AACS conference.
@AusCottonSci
Gossypium sturtianum in pub carpark, Hawker, South Australia. Not a plant I was expecting to see this far south!
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A bit of pathology going on in some cotton paddocks today in far north QLD. Investigating leaf spots and other stuff with Dr Linda Smith and Samuel Krebeker. @AusCottonSci , @CottonInfoAust
Northern Australia presents unique opportunities for cotton breeders, but also unusual risks.
@AusCottonSci, @CottonInfoAust
Cotton grows fast in the tropics! Kununurra cotton.
@AusCottonSci, @CottonInfoAust
Not a great time of year for a camping trip to Bedout Island. The Bedout Island weather station data went offline at 9:30pm last night after this ten-minute period, with gusts of 289km/h four times over 10 min. It probably got blown away at that point.
#CycloneIlsa has set a new preliminary Australian ten-minute sustained wind speed record of 218km/h at Bedout Island! Cyclone George was the previous record holder with 194km/h back in 2007 at the very same location! For the latest ow.ly/A4VP50NI8U0
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Murray Sharman retweeted
Bit of a problem, this. Methane from Australian coal and gas could be 60% higher than estimated theguardian.com/environment/… @adamlmorton #auspol
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Have you seen aphids & also may have seen these mottling leaves? We did not see them last few years, but Cotton Bunchy Top is really out and about in many fields we went in. Thankss @Murray_Sharman for prompt confirmation with cool DNA-based LAMP technique.
This deep sowing took a while to come up.
What is the oldest known living organism on the planet?
Introducing a 32,000 year old plant! It doesn't look a day older than, well, a few days!
Germinated from seeds locked in a squirrel burrow in Siberian permafrost!
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
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Murray Sharman retweeted
The guys from Parabug releasing Hyarti parasitic wasps to help control Silver Leaf Whitefly in cotton- this mean the SLW won’t leave a sticky honeydew on the cotton fibre , making it hard to spin
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Images from @NASAEarth of swollen Fitzroy River - before and after earthobservatory.nasa.gov/im…
Rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Ellie western Australia causing extensive flooding.
Floodwater is apparent in these false-color images from NASA’s Aqua satellite, taken on Dec. 17 (before the flooding) and Jan. 9 (after). go.nasa.gov/3ZpgvZm
ALT False-color satellite image of western Australia from December 17, 2022. Water appears light to dark blue; vegetation is green and bare land is brown. Most of the landscape is green and brown, including near the Fitzroy River.
ALT False-color satellite image of western Australia from January 9, 2023. Water appears light to dark blue; vegetation is green and bare land is brown. Most of the landscape is green and brown, except for the Fitzroy River which is a dark blue strip snaking across the landscape from the western shore of Australia on the left of the image to Fitzroy Crossing on the right side of the image.
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The Fitzroy River Bridge (locally known as New Bridge) at Fitzroy Crossing. #kimbetleyfloods
