AHRI Snapshots

On this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI’s Dr Mechelle Owen about her latest paper “Lessons learnt: crop-seed cleaning reduces weed-seed contamination in Western Australian grain samples” and also find out what’s in the pipeline for her upcoming survey work in Western Australia. If you're a grower in WA and would be keen on being involved in Mechelle's survey work,...

Today on AHRI Snapshots we’re catching up with AHRI’s Dr Roberto Busi to find out more about his latest paper on the loss of trifluralin metabolic resistance in ryegrass plants exposed to prosulfocarb recurrent selection. You can follow AHRI on Twitter here . To learn more about AHRI's research and team, check out the website here . 

We recently published AHRI insight highlighting the research outcomes out of the AHRI 5 project, which has GRDC investment(you can check it out here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/on-a-good-thing-dont-stick-to-it-the-directors-cut/. We’re now entering the next five-year project: AHRI 6, which also has GRDC investment. AHRI Director Professor Hugh Beckie joins us on the AHRI Snapshots podcast today to re...

This week on AHRI Snapshots, we’re chatting with AHRI researcher, Dr Danica Goggin on her latest findings into 2,4-D research. The findings have been published in her paper: "Plasma membrane receptor-like kinases and transporters are associated with 2,4-D resistance in wild radish". This paper was recently published in the Annals of Botany, Volume 125. Peter Newman recently wrote AHRI in...

In this interview, we’re going to be chatting with DPIRD grain researcher, Martin Harries, about a six-year focus paddock survey he led. The survey collated data from 184 paddocks spanning 14 million hectares of cropping land in Western Australia. It was all made possible with a DPIRD and GRDC investment and the collaboration of 13 farming groups; including the Facey, Liebe, Mingenew-Irwin groups...

On this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Agri-Science Queensland research scientist, Dr Adam Jalaludin about the results from a GRDC-funded survey he conducted in the Northern region on problem weeds. He shares the key takeaways from the research, as well as some practical information for growers and agronomists. You can follow AHRI on Twitter here . To learn more about AHRI's rese...

On this AHRI Snapshots we learn all about the weed chipper! We chat with agricultural engineer Dr Andrew Guzzomi from the University of Western Australia’s School of Engineering about the weed chipper. Andrew, together with his colleague Dr Carlo Peressini, engineered the weed chipper’s development as part of a multidisciplinary team. The concept of the Weed Chipper came about when a group of grow...

On this week’s AHRI Snapshots we chat with Dr Gurjeet Gill. He’s an Associate Professor in Agronomy & Weed Science at the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at University of Adelaide. Gurjeet, along with his colleague Ben Fleet recently completed some research that says if you don’t get a knockdown in, it’s not a problem. Delaying the sowing of wheat or barley to get a knockdown in some case...

On this week's podcast, we’re chatting with WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development weed researcher Dr Harmohinder Dhammu, who along with colleagues Abul Hashem, Catherine Borger, Glen Riethmuller, Nerys Wilkins and Pete Gray, with GRDC investment, have quantified the impact of five weed species of emerging importance in the WA grains belt. This work was recently written...

In this edition of AHIR Snapshots, AHRI researcher Dr Roberto Busi is helping us to understand new products before they come to market. He recently investigated the product Cinmethylin which is a new BASF product called Luximax. He found that Cinmethylin controls multiple resistant ryegrass, among other helpful things which we’ll get into. Peter Newman covered this work for AHRI insight as well, s...

Today we’re catching up with Facundo Cortese who has been working out of AHRI alongside Roberto Busi. He recently spoke at the Perth GRDC Crop Updates on how herbicide mixtures and crop competition provide excellent control of annual ryegrass and mitigate herbicide resistance. You can follow AHRI on Twitter here . To learn more about AHRI's research and team, check out the website here . 

In this week's podcast, we catch up with visiting scholar, Aniruddha Maity, also known as Maity. He's working on the seed biology and ecology of brome, wild barley, wild oat and ryegrass and connecting them with their herbicide resistance. Maity is originally from India and is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University (@TAMU on Twitter). He's come to AHRI with the Endeavour Leader...

The first resistance to HPPD, also known as Group H, herbicides in wild radish has now been discovered by AHRI researchers led by PhD candidate Huan Lu. Wild radish is just the third weed in the world to evolve resistance to this group of herbicides. In this podcast, we caught up with Huan to learn more about the results published in his paper “Evolution of resistance to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides...

For the first AHRI Snapshots podcast of 2020, we caught up with Associate Professor Ken Flower about a recent paper he co-authored with AHRI Director Hugh Beckie and AHRI’s Agronomy Lead, Mike Ashworth. With glyphosate currently under intense scrutiny worldwide from an environmental and health perspective, the authors of the paper “Farming without glyphosate” contemplated possible scenarios of far...

In our final AHRI Snapshots podcast for 2019, we caught up with AHRI’s Dr Yaseen Khalil about his papers the “Effect of crop residues on interception and activity of prosulfocarb, pyroxasulfone, and trifluralin” and “Pyroxasulfone efficacy for annual ryegrass control is affected by wheat residue height, amount and orientation”. Cindy Benjamin has also written an AHRI insight on these two papers wh...

Today on AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Colorado State University Associate Professor, Dr Todd Gaines about metabolism-based glyphosate resistance. Peter Newman recently wrote AHRI insight on this topic. Back in 2011, then Ord River agronomist, Andrew Cripps, was approached by a farmer asking why his Barnyard grass had survived glyphosate. Dr Todd Gaines and Professor Steve Powles visited the no...

Cesar is partnering with the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) and the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) to deliver the 2019 Crop Protection Forum. Attendees will learn about the latest research into insecticide, herbicide and fungicide resistance affecting the grains industry. Take a listen to this podcast with Cesar's Jessica Lye and AHRI's Hugh Beckie to fi...

Cesar is partnering with the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) and the Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM) to deliver the 2019 Crop Protection Forum. Attendees will learn about the latest research into insecticide, herbicide and fungicide resistance affecting the grains industry. Take a listen to this podcast with Cesar's Jessica Lye and AHRI's Hugh Beckie to fi...

Today we catch up with AHRI’s Dr Qin Yu about the paper “Do plants pay a fitness cost to be resistant to glyphosate?” This paper was published earlier this year and is written by Martin Vila-Aiub, Qin Yu and Steve Powles. This paper reviewed the literature to understand the effects of glyphosate resistance on plant fitness as the molecular, biochemical and physiological levels. Dr Qin Yu explains...

In this podcast, Cindy Benjamin catches up with Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor Leslie Weston to get the next instalment on their work. You can read the insight and listen to the podcast on Leslie and her team's earlier work here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/crops-are-doin-it-for-themselves/The last podcast focused on cereals, while this one looks at the mechanisms at play in canola. Les...

For this AHRI Snapshots podcast, we catch up with AHRI and WeedSmart Western Extensions Agronomist, Peter Newman, who wrote one of our latest AHRI insights on the best harvest weed seed control tool for you. He also developed a model which allows you to input your own data to figure out what options you might consider. You can read the insight here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/whats-the-cost-of-hwsc-f...

In this podcast, with chatting with AHRI PhD candidate Huan Lu about his paper “Metribuzin resistance in a wild radish population via both psbA mutation and enhanced metabolism”. The authors of this paper are Huan Lu, Qin Yu, Heping Han, Mechelle J. Owen, and Stephen B. Powles. This paper identifies multiple mechanisms: as well as psbA gene mutation there is a non-target site resistance mechanism...

Research agronomist John Broster joins us on AHRI Snapshots this week to give an overview of the annual resistance testing report he releases each year through Charles Sturt University. You can find out more about the service here: https://www.csu.edu.au/plantinteractionsgroup/herbicide-resistance You can follow AHRI on Twitter here . To learn more about AHRI's research and team, check out th...

Queensland Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Principal Research Scientist, Michael Widderick recently visited AHRI in Perth. Michael gave a great overview of his projects and we also discussed opportunities to collaborate with AHRI. Michael's team are working on crop competition (among other projects), focusing on sorghum, pulse crops, and manipulation of crop compe...

Our latest AHRI insight which will be published in the next few days, ‘Crops are doin’ it for themselves’, written by Cindy Benjamin, looks at work around crop competition out of Charles Sturt University. The main project is led by Professor Leslie Weston at CSU and Associate Professor Dr Chris Preston at The University of Adelaide, to investigate several aspects of crop competition. The AHRI Insi...