🌱 Some of our Canola and Pulses team are scoring Sclerotinia severity in six canola varieties two weeks after inoculation. The results will support future disease management research. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Sept 18, come hear from CCDM’s Subash Gautam as he explores Development of an advanced toolkit for the integrated management of fungicide resistance in Venturia inaequalis, the causal agent of apple scab🍎

📢 New paper published! CCDM researchers have explored how the Australian Parastagonospora nodorum population has adapted to changes in wheat host genetics over time. 🌾 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #grdc, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾 On the ground in Esperance! Our Canola and Pulses team is conducting annual field surveys, with a focus on Ascochyta lentis in lentil crops. Thanks to Andrea Hills, the growers and agronomists supporting this important work. 🌱 #GRDC,@curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Fri Sept 11, come hear from CCDM’s Ciara Gifford as she explores Dissecting Genetic, Pathogen, and Environmental Drivers of Yellow Leaf Spot Disease Expression in Wheat to Improve Field-Based Resistance Ratings🌾

🌾 That's a wrap on Newdegate Field Days 2026! Thanks to everyone who visited the CCDM team in the GRDC Tent over the past two days. We enjoyed the opportunity to connect with growers and industry, share our research, and discuss crop disease management. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌱 The fight against lupin diseases starts in the field! Last week, researchers inoculated 200 lupin genotypes at our Northam field trial using their red rice Sclerotinia inoculation method. Over the coming weeks, they'll assess disease severity and search for sources of tolerance and resistance. 🔍️

Great seminar by Professor Lee Hickey at the @theccdm.bsky.social today about AI supported plant breeding. More tomorrow at @cbsmwa.bsky.social

🌾 Great start to Newdegate Field Days! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the GRDC tent to chat with the CCDM team today. See you tomorrow for Day 2! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🔬 Our CCDM staff and students are looking forward to @cbsmwa.bsky.social this week, with our researchers and students sharing their latest discoveries across plant science, genetics, pathology and crop protection. 👏 Special hand to @jwdebler.bsky.social for his work on the organising committee

Heading to Newdegate Field day? Stop by the GRDC tent and meet the CCDM team. 🔬 Learn about the latest grains research 🌱 Get practical disease management advice 🎯 Chat with our researchers about crop health and productivity #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Thursday Sept 3, come hear from University of Queensland’s and #cbsmwa Lee Hickey 🗣️ 📣 as he explores Stacking resistance: haplotype-based selection for multi-disease resistance in cereals 🌾

🌾 That's a wrap on Dowerin Field Days 2026! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the GRDC tent over the past two days. It was great to connect with everyone. 📍 Next stop: Newdegate Field Days next week! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾 Day 1 of #DowerinFieldDays was a fantastic start! Thanks to our CCDM staff for representing the Centre and connecting with growers, agronomists and industry representatives. If you're at Dowerin, come say hello! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Aug 28, come hear from CCDM’s Melanie Dixon as she explores Prompting for Better Metadata: GenAI Prompt Design for clear Open Dataset Titles and Descriptions🗄️

🌾 Our researchers were in Geelong this week for the Australian Barley Technical Symposium (ABTS), sharing the latest CCDM research through presentations and posters. Great job team! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾Esperance growers – how’s the season kicking off for you? Hear from Sean Randell (Esperance Private Agronomy, WA) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director) as they unpack the current issues of the season. 📰 Read here: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾August Seasonal Update 🌱 Limited rainfall in some regions and increasing disease pressure continue to challenge growers. Find out what five agronomists and our Director have to say about the 2026 season so far. Read more: www.ccdm.com.au/seasonal-upd... #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾 Heading to the Dowerin Machinery Field Day? Visit the CCDM team in the GRDC tent to chat all things crop disease management and grains research. August 26-27 ✅ Disease management advice ✅ Meet our researchers ✅ Family-friendly activities #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🎓 Year 11 students from WA College of Agriculture – Cunderdin visited CCDM to learn about the centre and how our research is helping protect Australia's grain industry. 🌾 We hope you enjoyed your time with us! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Aug 14, come hear from CCDM’s Arnold Salvacion as he explores Beyond Default Parameters: A Data-Driven Framework for Optimising IDW in Yield Map Interpolation 💻

🌟 CCDM Stars on the Gold Coast! 🌟 This week, a number of CCDM staff and students presented their research through presentations and posters at the Australian Crop Breeding Conference (ACB) Crop Breeders Week on the sunny Gold Coast. Well done team!! #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🔬 EOI now extended: CCDM Nanopore Sequencing Workshop 2026 Join us at Curtin University from 17–19 Nov for a hands-on workshop covering wet-lab sequencing + bioinformatics 📊 $500 rego | bursaries available EOIs close 1 September - buff.ly/40UXAwg @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌱 CCDM researchers and students will present their latest barley disease and fungicide research at #ABTS2026 in Geelong (17–19 Aug). Talks from Xuan Hoan Dinh, Jade Davis and Varthini Govindaraju Punithan, plus a poster from Jiaping Du. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾🔬 Yesterday, students from WA College of Agriculture – Harvey visited CCDM to hear from our scientists, tour the Centre and field trial areas, and learn how research is helping protect Australia's grain industry. Thanks for visiting! 🌱 #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🦠🌱 CCDM researchers Joel Haywood and Lincoln Harper will present at the Environmental Dimensions of Antimicrobial Resistance (EDAR) Conference in Brisbane (2–7 August). Their talks on antifungal resistance will feature in the One Health session on 6 August. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

🌾📊 Shaping the future of data-driven farming. CCDM brought researchers, industry and tech partners together at Pawsey for an Agri Analytics Hub co-design workshop led by Julia Easton, helping develop better tools for on-farm decision-making. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday Jul 31, come hear from Astute Ag’s Grant Hollaway as he explores Perspectives from 30 Years of On-Farm Soilborne Disease Research and Extension🧑‍🌾

🌾 CCDM at Australian Crop Breeders Week! We have some CCDM researchers and students attending and presenting at the Australian Crop Breeders Week, a flagship event bringing together crop breeders, researchers and industry leaders from across Australia. #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social

📢 New paper published! CCDM researchers have characterised a new putative effector gene, AlPE1, in Ascochyta lentis, providing new insights into pathogen evolution and host–pathogen interactions in lentils. 🔗 Read here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...  #GRDC, @curtinuniversity.bsky.social