Plant health microbiome

Wheat crop health microbiome

Understanding the plant microbiome to enhance wheat crop growth and health, and help meet the increasing demand on this grain.

Understanding the impacts of farming practices on the soil microbiome as a sustainable approach to crop production.

Farming systems are coming under mounting pressure to increase their crop yields to feed a growing population. Therefore, maintaining and enhancing soil biological function is integral for productivity and sustainability of agricultural systems.

Crop residue microbiome

Investigating the microbial processes underpinning degradation of crop residues to improve soil fertility and limit carry-over of stubble-borne disease.

Disease suppressive soils – nature’s solution to pathogens

Disease suppressive soils are those with the ability to limit the impact from soilborne pathogens on crops. Research on their unique microbiome could lead to significant new management solutions for disease prevention.

Investigating the microbial basis of population suppression in Australian plague locusts

Cases of Australian plague locust population suppression occurred despite extreme swarming conditions forecasted for the wet Australian summer. Investigations into cause of this population suppression could lead to novel ways to protect cereal crops from this pest species.

Podcast – the impact of the soil microbiome on Australian agricultural crops.

Publication alert – Diversity, community structure, and potential functions of root-associated bacterial communities of different wheat (Triticum aestivum) cultivars under field conditions

Publication alert – Growing soil organic carbon in dryland agricultural systems

Publication alert – Do small RNAs unlock the below ground microbiome-plant mystery?

Publication alert – Streptomyces and their specialised metabolites for phytopathogen control.

Publication alert: Ranking environmental and edaphic attributes driving soil microbial community structure and activity with special attention to spatial and temporal scale