AHRI Snapshots

The Crop Protection Forum is next week in Launceston, Tasmania! In its 7th year, the AHRI, CCDM and Cesar Australia Crop Protection Forum will showcase the latest weeds, pests and disease research for riding out the inevitable storm of chemical resistance. Our experts will explore the implications and solutions for reducing resistance in Tasmanian cropping systems. In this podcast episode, Mark Gi...

In this podcast, we catch up with AHRI Agronomy Researcher Dr Yaseen Khalil about some of the key findings from two of his recent studies.  We learn about the effectiveness of different weed control tacts in serradella, which is a legume pasture species.  We  also  learn about how pasture phase farming can be used to reduce the annual ryegrass seed bank in a serradella crop. Yaseen’s project is fu...

On today’s AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with previous AHRI Masters student Martina Badano. Martina worked with Dr Roberto Busi back in 2019 on rapid on-farm testing. Her paper “Rapid On-Farm Testing of Resistance in Lolium rigidum to Key Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides” has just been published. We’re going to find out more about it. Here's some more detail on the paper Overreliance on...

AHRI researcher, Dr Danica Goggin and others have recently discovered how ryegrass has evolved resistance to Sakura.  It’s all about GSTs. Not the tax type, rather gluthione transferase (Danica explains in the podcast why the 'S' was dropped!).  Wheat uses GSTs to detoxify and tolerate Sakura, and ryegrass has now evolved to do the same thing, although the ryegrass is not as tolerant as...

In this episode we catch up with AHRI Director Hugh Beckie who recently presented at WeedSmart Week in Esperance. Hugh provides a snapshot into some of the practical research outcomes he was able to share with growers in Esperance in regards to recent results out of the AHRI agronomy team. We also hear from Hugh about how Roberto Busi's resistance testing is going, what is happening in the 2,...

Daniel Birch farms  at Catalina Farms near Marchagee in WA's wheatbelt. He recently got resistance testing done through Dr Roberto Busi's resistance testing program. Daniel also attended Roberto's last resistance workshop which took place last week in Dalwallinu. In this interview, Daniel explained how the results from his resistance testing has assisted in helping to make planning...

On today’s AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with our newest AHRI team member, Dr Candy Taylor! Candy has recently joined the team as a Research Associate. She’s going to be looking at understanding auxinic herbicide resistance dynamics.  This work is being supported by an ARC Linkage grant, with additional investment from Nufarm. This was successfully secured by AHRI’s Dr Danica Goggin and former...

Today we’re catching up with CSIRO Scientist, Dr Rick Llewellyn. Rick is the Group Leader for Integrated Agricultural Systems and is managing the Area Wide Management, or AWM, project .  The project is about engaging local stakeholders in generating a better understanding of the weed issues in focus regions through identifying the spatial mobility of key weeds, their herbicide resistance status an...

Today on AHRI Snapshots, we’re chatting with our new Communications Officer, Jessica Scholle. Jessica comes to us from Scitech, which is an Australian not-for-profit science centre based in Perth, WA. From traveling regionally to deliver face-to-face science presentations, to producing educational science material for online, Jess comes to us with a wealth of experience in science communications....

In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI Agronomy Research Associate Dr Yaseen Khalil. Yaseen has been working on pasture rotations, with his project finishing up in December this year. Today, we’re going to get an update on where the project is at so far and find out some of the key results. Yaseen’s project is funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation, which...

Dr Roberto Busi has been working hard on his GRDC invested project on testing resistant weeds. In this interview, he goes over some of the research updates and the workshops which are taking place this month in WA.Regional Workshops in WA datesEsperance (location to be advised), 2-5pm, Tuesday, June 22 – organised by the South East Premium Wheat Growers Association and coordinated by agronomists D...

This week on AHRI Snapshots, we caught up with AHRI Agronomy Lead, Dr Mike Ashworth. Mike has been leading projects on mitigating herbicide resistance, looking at serradella as a break phase crop and blue lupin control in narrow leaf lupins. While some of these projects are still in progress, Mike is able to share with us some preliminary results, including new information on time of sowing recomm...

In this episode, we’re catching up with AHRI’s Dr Heping Han to talk about some recent research he published on 2,4-D syngergising metribuzin. Australian farmers and agronomists have previously observed synergy between phenoxy herbicides, such as 2,4-D and PSII herbicides, also known as Group C or Group 3 herbicides such, as metribuzin. Thanks to this new AHRI research, we now know why this is the...

On this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI PhD Candidate, Nooshin Shahbazi. In her latest paper, Nooshin has looked at the capability of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors to detect and locate weeds. The results showed the detectability of the target at different scanning distances from the LiDAR was directly influenced by the size of the target and its orientation tow...

In this special edition of AHRI Snapshots, we’re talking about some ground-breaking research out of AHRI which has this week been published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA. So, what is the big news? AHRI researchers have identified a new glyphosate resistance mechanism which has similarities to cancer drug resistance in humans. AHRI researchers...

On this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we caught up with AHRI Masters Graduate Ci Sun. She published her first paper as first author recently on the adaptive value of flowering timing in wild radish. The paper has some important key takeaway messages which we get into in this interview. You can read Ci's paper here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/publications/the-adaptive-value-of-flowering-time-in-wild...

We’re well into 2021 and the team at AHRI has been really busy with research and extension. AHRI Director Hugh Beckie joins us on the podcast to provide us with an update on research outcomes out of AHRI, as well as an overview of his new paper on an agricultural weed assessment calculator which can be used in Australia. NEW RESEARCH OUT OF AHRIWorld first: glyphosate resistant capeweed: https://a...

In this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we’re chatting with AHRI Agronomy Team researcher, Dr Yaseen Khalil about his latest paper which identified the world’s first glyphosate resistant capeweed. You can read AHRI insight on this topic here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/world-first-glyphosate-resistant-capeweed/And you can read the paper in full here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/publications/identification-of-...

A group of researchers led by Heping Han from AHRI, including researchers from Bayer and Zhejiang University in China have identified the P450 gene responsible for cross resistance to herbicides of at least five modes of action. The gene is CYP81A10v7. Paper author, Prof Steve Powles joins us in this AHRI Snapshots to provide a history of this research and what the finding means in both a fundamen...

This is our last AHRI Snapshots podcast for 2020! On our final episode, AHRI PhD Candidate Nooshin Shahbazi joins us to talk about her latest paper "Comparison of crop and weed height, for potential differentiation of weed patches at harvest". She has been looking at differentiating between weeds and the crop at harvest time based on the plants height differences, with the aim of identif...

Today on AHRI Snapshots we catch up with AHRI’s Dr Roberto Busi. He recently published a paper alongside AHRI's Prof Hugh Beckie which entitled: Are herbicide mixtures unaffected by resistance? A case study with Lolium rigidum. He joins us to tell us what he found. Paper:https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/publications/are-herbicide-mixtures-unaffected-by-resistance-a-case-study-with-lolium-rigidum/ You...

In this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Colorado State University weeds researcher, Associate Professor Todd Gaines. Todd has previously worked out of AHRI and we thought it would be good to catch up with him to see what he’s focusing on at the moment. Todd recently had a paper feature in the Special Edition of Herbicide Resistance in Plants, edited by AHRI's Prof Hugh Beckie, ent...

This year, AHRI is hosting the 2020 Crop Protection Forum on Tuesday December 8th. This event is a collaboration between AHRI, CCDM and cesar and is designed to deliver the latest research to agronomists and industry in a one-day event. This event was first held in Perth in 2015 when it was hosted by AHRI. The event has since been delivered in Wagga, Dalby, Adelaide, and Moama in Victoria and has...

In this week's podcast, we catch up with AHRI Research Officer, Roberto Lujan Rocha who gives an update on where the agronomy team is at with a range of their projects. We talk about how the team is looking at whether certain weeds like ryegrass and wild radish evolve to evade harvest weed seed control tactics and also cover work the team is doing in pre-emergent herbicides. In the podcast, R...

In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Professor Martin Vila-Aiub to find out about his recent paper "Fitness of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Current Knowledge and Implications for Management" which was recently published in a special edition of Herbicide Resistance in Plants (you can read that here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/publications/herbicide-resistance-in-plants-2/).Marti...