Pulse Australia

Pulse Research

The GRDC aims to fund projects that address issues and priorities in the grains industry as identified through engagement with stakeholders. Projects are groups under the GRDC’s six theme areas for investment. The list below provides the project number and name of current projects with a strong pulse industry focus or component. Project summaries for all current projects (2013–14) can be found at: www.grdc.com.au/Research-and-Development/Project-Summaries

Meeting market requirements

• DAN00139      Improving food quality and end use market acceptance of Australian pulses—cooking and sensory
  
• DAN00196      Eliminating grain defects in chickpeas 
  
• DAV00132      Objective high-throughput technologies for the pulse industry
  

Improving crop yields

• CSA00027      Adding value to GRDC's National Variety Trial network
  
• CSP00185      Collection, phenotyping and exploitation of wild cicer genetic resources for chickpea improvement
  
• CUR00021      An international collaborative effort to sequence the genome of field pea (Pisum sativum), a key tool for future breeding
  
• DAN00151      PBA Chickpea—National Breeding Program
  
• DAN00157      Evaluating remaining albus lupin breeding material at Wagga
  
• DAN00190      Quarantine of cereals and pulses
  
• DAQ00172      National Mungbean Improvement Program
  
• DAS00112      Lupin evaluation for eastern Australia
  
• DAS00117      New common and woolly pod vetch varieties for grain and hay/silage production for Australian farmers
  
• DAS00120      Pulse germplasm enhancement­—National coordination
  
• DAS00121      Pulse germplasm enhancement—Abiotic stresses
  
• DAS00140      Improving yield and reliability of field peas and chickpeas under water deficit
  
• DAV00118      Pulse Breeding Australia—Field pea Breeding Program
  
• DAV00119      PBA Lentil Breeding—expansion project
  
• DAV00126      Molecular markers for pulse breeding programs
  
• DAV00131      Australian Grains Genebank—Phase 2: 2013 - 2017
  
• DAV00134      Diagnostic services for pulse germplasm enhancement and breeding programs
  
• DAV00135      Genome sequencing of lentil—a collaborative approach with international partners
  
• DAW00181     National Lupin Breeding for southern Australia
  
• DAW00237     Lupin breeding for Australia
  
• DAW00238     Development of lupin molecular markers tagging yield QTL genes and yield-related phenology traits
  
• DEP00001      Australian Grains Genebank
  
• ICA00011        Pre-emptive chickpea pre-breeding for biotic stresses and germplasm enhancement for abiotic stresses
  
• UA00127         PBA Australian faba bean breeding program
  
• UWA00147     Genome sequencing in narrow-leafed lupins
  
• UWA00151     Unleashing the power of genomics for lupin marker development and crop improvement
  
• UWA00159     In vitro tools for accelerated breeding and screening for abiotic stress in grain legumes
  

Protecting your crop

• AKC00004      Registration for minor use chemicals for the grains industry
  
• AKC00005      Pathways to registration—Tactical pesticide registration program
  
• AKC00006      Registration of minor use chemicals for the grain industry
  
• CUR00012      Australian Centre of Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens: Phase 3 Pleosporales Functional Genomics 
  
• CUR00014      New technologies and biological concepts for pre-breeding resistance to the Ascochyta blight diseases of pea, chickpea, lentil and faba bean 
  
• CUR00016      ACNFP-Fungicide benchmarks: Project Phase 2 
  
• CUR00018      Australian Centre for Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens: Phase 3 - Pleosporales Effector Delivery
  
• CUR00019      Fungicide evaluation of new generation actives in cereals and pulse crops
  
• CUR00020      Managing on-farm biosecurity risk through pre-emptive breeding: the case of rust in field pea and lentil
  
• CUR00022      Fungicide resistance management strategy and communications
  
• DAN00140      New tools and germplasm for Australian pulse breeding programs to respond to changing virus threats 
  
• DAN00142      Differential herbicide tolerance of winter crops in S.E. Australia—extension 
  
• DAN00172      Managing crop disease—Improving chickpea pathogen resistance (PRR) 
  
• DAN00176      Northern NSW Integrated Disease Management 
  
• DAQ00153      Northern pulse and grains IPM 
  
• DAQ00164      Biological suppression of Root-lesion nematodes in grain-growing soils 
  
• DAS00131      Improving weed management in pulse crops through herbicide tolerance—Part B 
  
• DAS00132      Improving weed management in pulse crops through herbicide tolerance—Part A 
  
• DAV00117      Pulse Germplasm Enhancement Program—Resistance to biotic stresses 
  
• UM00039        Understanding pathogenicity risk within the current Asochyta rabiei fungal population and development of a revised disease management plan
  
• UM00052        Improving grower surveillance, management, epidemiology knowledge and tools to manage crop disease—National Chickpea Pathology Program
  
• UQ00059-DAQ         Herbicide tolerance screening of winter crops in NR (phase IV) (was DAQ00152) 
  
• UWA00129     Generation of genetically-modified herbicide tolerant narrow-leaf lupin 
  
• UWA00145     Innovative approaches to resistance to necrotrophic pathogens and sap-sucking insect pests. 
  
• UWA00152     Managing soil-borne diseases with a focus on Rhizoctonia (Part A UWA) 
  
• UWA00154     Strategies to provide resistance to the economically important fungal pathogen, Rhizoctonia solani
  

Advancing profitable farming systems

• CSA00029      National integration of crop sequence strategies and tactics 
  
• CSA00037      Reassessing the value and use of fixed nitrogen 
  
• CSE00055      Crop sequences to manage soil pathogens and reduce the yield gap of northern grain production
  
• CSP00146      Facilitating increased on-farm adoption of broadleaf species in crop sequences to improve grain production and profitability
  
• CSP00160      Refining variety and management recommendations to improve productivity and resource use efficiency of dual-purpose crops in Australia
  
• DAN00167      Variety Specific Agronomy Packages for southern, central and northern NSW
  
• DAN00171      Northern Pulse Agronomy Initiative—NSW 
  
• DAN00191      Nitrogen fixing break crops and pastures for HRZ acid soils 
  
• DAQ00170      GRDC Grower Solutions for Central Queensland
  
• DAQ00174      Cropping solutions for the sugarcane farming systems of the Burdekin
  
• DAQ00180      Extension of Nitrogen Fixation Program outputs to end users—northern region
  
• DAQ00181      Optimising nitrogen fixation of grain legumes—northern region  
  
• DAS00128      Optimising nitrogen fixation of grain legumes—southern region
  
• DAV00113      Expanding the use of pulses in the southern region 
  
• DAW00213     Putting the focus on profitable break crop and pasture sequences in WA 
  
• DAW00221     Optimising nitrogen fixation of grain legumes—western region 
  
• DAW00227     Tactical break crop agronomy in Western Australia
  
• GPC00001      Extension of Nitrogen Fixation Program outputs to end users—western region
  
• PAL00019       Australian Broadleaf Cropping Project 
  
• UA00119         Assessing management options for enhanced soil phosphorus availability using rotations 
  
• UA00138         Extension of nitrogen fixation program outputs to end users—southern region 
  
• UQ00067        Queensland Pulse Agronomy Initiative to increase the reliability and yield of summer and winter pulses 
  
• VIC00010        Correct crop sequencing for irrigated double cropping
  

Improving your farm resource base

• UWA00139     SBI II—Harnessing the nitrogen cycle through novel solutions
  
• DAN00189      AIRG—National independent quality assurance and germplasm maintenance for Rhizobium inoculants
  
• DAV00106      Managing soil biology to improve nitrogen supply in grain production systems
  
• UMU00040     Maintenance of rhizobial germplasm resources (national)
  
• US00065         Understanding the molecular basis for desiccation tolerance of rhizobia for improved survival on seed
  
• DAN00145      National independent quality assurance and germplasm maintenance for Rhizobium inoculum
  

Building skills and capacity

• GRS10026      Grains Industry Research Scholarship—Foyjunnessa (UA) Assesing management options for enhancing soil phosphorus availability using rotations
  
• GRS10039      Grains Industry Research Scholarship—Monica Kehoe (UWA) Unraveling the cause of black pod disease of narrow-leafed lupin and developing a control solution
  
• GRS10061      Grains Industry Research Scholarship—Robert Syme (CUR) Comparative genomics of necrotrophic fungal pathogens
  
• GRS10258      Grains Industry Research Scholarship—Ella Brear (US) Charcterising potential symbiosome membrane proteins essential to the legume-rhizobium symbiosis
  
• GRS187          Grains Industry Research Scholarship—Liza Parkinson (UMU) Investigating the method of action of plant growth promoting rhizosphere bacteria enhancing nodulation in legumes
  
• IDA10508        Industry Development Award—Holmes Farm Consulting Pulse market and agronomic opportunities
  
• UHS10226      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Cheryl Day (UWA) Economic impact of soil borne diseases over the entire rotation sequence
  
• UHS10234      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Jasmine Hart (UF) Interactions of actinobacteria with rhizobia
  
• UHS10356      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Michelle Low (UCS) PBA Health benefits of Australian pulses
  
• UHS10360      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Kyle Reynolds (UCS) PBA Health benefits of Australian pulses
  
• UHS10446      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—King Yin Lui (CUR) Dissection of genetic factors affecting Ascochyta lentis pathogenicity and its interaction with lentil (Lens culinaris)
  
• UHS10548      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Bonnie Hargreaves (UWA) Heritability of resistance to black spot disease in a field pea recurrent enrichment and association population (Pea-REAP)
  
• UHS10659      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Candy Taylor (UWA) Understanding the role of floral integrator locus FT in controlling phenology in narrow-leafed lupin for future breeding
  
• UHS10662      Undergraduate Honours Scholarship—Eleanor Readford (US) The effect of preceding rotation crop (wheat, mustard and chickpea) on the incidence of crown rot in wheat