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People in greenhouse examining crop
WAARC Lupin Disease Resistance project team members (L-R) Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) Principal Research Scientist (Plant Pathology) Geoff Thomas, Research Scientist Sharon Westcott, and Research Scientist and Plant Pathologist Dr Elaine Gough. (Photo credit: GRDC/Evan Collis).

The Lupin Disease Resistance project is focused on boosting lupin resistance to its four major diseases.

It is a co-investment between the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and WAARC (including its six partners Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), CSIRO, Grower Group Alliance (GGA) and WA universities: Curtin, Murdoch, and The University of Western Australia).

The project brings together the crop genetics and plant pathology expertise of DPIRD, Curtin, and Murdoch Universities with the plant breeding experience of Australian Grain Technologies (AGT).

DPIRD Genetic Improvement Portfolio Manager Darshan Sharma said the project would help deliver future narrow-leafed lupin varieties with improved resistance to its major diseases: Phomopsis, Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Anthracnose and Sclerotinia.

We will share the outputs from this exciting project with pre-breeders and breeders to ensure future varieties require less disease management, maintain yield stability and deliver better outcomes for WA growers and farming systems,” Dr Sharma said.

Grains projects get off the ground for research collaboration
WA Agricultural Research Collaboration Director Dr Kelly Pearce (L-R), Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) Genetic Improvement Portfolio Manager Dr Darshan Sharma, DPIRD and Murdoch University Principal Research Scientist Dr Ron Yates, and Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) Senior Regional Manager (West) Peter Bird, with lupin and legumes research trial plants at Murdoch University.

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