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Stubble Retention And Leaf Disease In Lupin And Cereal Crops, Mark Sweetingham, Robert Loughman, Ron Jarvis
Stubble Retention And Leaf Disease In Lupin And Cereal Crops, Mark Sweetingham, Robert Loughman, Ron Jarvis
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Retention of cereal stubbles can reduce leaf disease in lupins but increase leaf disease in cereals. The extent of cereal disease carry-over in stubbles depends on the locality and whether multiple cropping or crop rotation is practised
Managing Brome Grass In The Wheat:Lupin Rotation, Aik Hock Cheam, Gurget Gil, Christine Zaicou
Managing Brome Grass In The Wheat:Lupin Rotation, Aik Hock Cheam, Gurget Gil, Christine Zaicou
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Some farmers and scientists are questioning the sustainability of the cereal:lupin rotation in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Being a 'tight' rotation, its continuation is constantly under threat by disease, especially lupin root rots caused by Pleiochaeta (the brown spot organism) and Rhizoctonia fungi. To control disease, some farmers have lengthened the rotation to three years, such as wheat:wheat:lupins or wheat:barley:lupins. The longer cereal phase also helps to stabilise soil against wind erosion. However, such rotations can lead to a rapid buildup of brome grass during the two consecutive years of cereals. The implications of these rotations on the severity of …
Wider Spaced Rows For Lupins, Ron Jarvis
Wider Spaced Rows For Lupins, Ron Jarvis
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In this farm scale trial at Wongan Hills, a lined combine was used to seed lupins into rows spaced 380 mm apart in wheat stubble.
Test Detects Resistant Green Peach Aphids In Lupins, Francoise Berlandier, Ian Dadour
Test Detects Resistant Green Peach Aphids In Lupins, Francoise Berlandier, Ian Dadour
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Confirmation of insecticide resistance in green peach aphid in Western Australia's lupin crops means farmers will have to choose insecticides much more carefully to control this pest. Resistance within an aphid population varies, and when resistant aphids are no longer exposed to insecticides, they may revert back to being susceptible in as little as one generation. Furthermore, when these revertant populations are exposed to the same insecticides in the future, resistance quickly reoccurs. In this article, the authors discuss a test to determine the extent of insecticide resistance in green peach aphid and how to manage it.
Domestication Of Rough-Seeded Lupins, Bevan Buirchell, Wallace Cowling
Domestication Of Rough-Seeded Lupins, Bevan Buirchell, Wallace Cowling
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Since the beginning of civilisation, humans have been domesticating wild plants such as wheat, barley and rice. They have both conciously and unconciously selected plant types suited to cropping.
Reccently, there has been an increasing effort to domesticate a greater variety of wild plants, especially legumes.