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Increasing Protein Content Of Wheat By Breeding, B R. Whan, Graham Crosbie

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The most efficient means of increasing protein content of WesternAustralian wheat is by breeding new varieties with higher inherent protein in their grain. But is this possible without sacrificing yeild or other desirable characteristics?

Trends In Wheat Protein/Yield Relationships, G B. Crosbie, Harry Fisher, Bryan Whan

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The major concern of wheat breeders in WesternAustralia has been to increase grain yield while maintaining quality at an acceptable level. There has been no concious effort to select for protein content. It is of interrest, therefore, to compare the relationship between yield and protein of varieties which have been prominent in Western Australia at various times, to see what effects yield increases have had on protein content and the extent of any variation which might exist.

Molybdenum On Lupins, M M. Riley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1.To examine the responses of lupins to the application of molybdenum to an acidic, yellow sandy earth.

2. To compare the relative effectiveness of molybdenum as a seed-dressing to the conventional method of soil application.

3. To examine the effects of sodium molybdate as a seed-dressing on the effectiveness of rhizobium. 87Me94

Plot Size Trial (Wheat), G. J. Lewis

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

To determine if plot size (length or width) x cultivar or seeding machine x cultivar interactions exist within a set of wheat cultivars. 87BA20, 87N20, 87WH36, To examine the relationship between the relative yield of wheat cultivars grown in experiments and in similarly treated bulk areas at the same site. 87M80.

The Effect Of Pattern Of Supply On Boron Toxicity In Barley, M M. Riley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

To determine the effects of commencing boron toxicity of barley at different stages of plant growth on the final grain yield. 87GL3b/4864

Effect Of Nitrogen Rates On The Copper Concentration, Dry Matter Production And Grain Yield Of Wheat Grown On A Residual Copper Trial., R F. Brennan

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 67E8

Location: Esperance Downs Research Station.

The trial was originally designed to measure the residual effectiveness of rates of copper sulphate drilled in 1967.

Rapeseed, Tillage., J. D. Warren, Brenda Shackley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

1. Rapeseed. Assessment of Early Maturing Brassica napus Lines 87KA74, 87LG42, Assessment of Early Flowering Brassica juncea Lines 87KA44, 87E41, 87LG38, 87KA44, 87LG38, Yield Performance of Traizine Resistant Rapeseed 87AL25, 87E40, 87KA42, 87KA42, 87LG37, 87MA32, Assessment of Short Statured B. napus lines 87AL26, 87KA43, 87MA33, Rapeseed Extension: Demonstration Trials 87ERS39, 87JE29, 87KA41, 87NA78. 2. Tillage. The effect of Gypsum, tillage and nitrogen on cereal yields in a continuous crop system 84KA28 The effect of Gypsum, tillage and nitrogen on cereal yields farm system with a medic component 87KA47 Pasture regeneration counts for tillage trials 77MT51, 77M56, 77WH88, 82M35, 85M67A, 86M56.

Cereal Cyst Nematode And Time And Method Of Sowing Wheat, J M. Stanton, M Sartori

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

87NO13, 87NO15, 87JE6, 87NA93, 87NA93, 87NA97, 86KA82.

Foliar Wheat Diseases And Cereal Smuts And Control Of Pleiochaeta Setosa In Lupins., R Loughman, G Thomas, G Cusack, M Sweetingham, S Porritt, A Pelham, V Chisholm

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Disease complexes in field screening trials. Glasshouse screening for resistance. Reinfection of barley loose smut. Barley loose smut – varietal susceptibility. Seed dressings for barley loose smut. Seed dressings for barley leaf stripe. Seed dressings for molybdenum application and fungicidal control of soil-borne flag smut. Chemical control of Pleiochaeta setosa in lupins. Effect of cereal stubble and seed dressing fungicide on brown leaf spot (P. setosa) in lupins. Stubble retention and Rovral for control of P. setosa in lupins. Fungicide sprays for control of P. setosa in lupins. Data summary for chemical trials.

Harvest Index Of Lupins, Low Tillering Cereals And Maturity By Sowing Date In Cereals., R. J. Delane, J. C. Mathews, J. A. Bright

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87GE21

Effect of plant density on branching, pod setting and yield development of lupins.

Location: Geraldton

To determine the influence of plant density and between-plant variability in vegetative growth on the branching, pod setting and yield development of lupins

Trial 87GE9

Chemicals to control vegetative growth and improve pod set in lupins.

Location: West Binnu

To examine the effect of a number of growth regulating chemicals on the branching, pod setting and yield of lupins under conditions favoring high biomass production.

Trial 87GE19

Chemicals to control vegetative growth and improve pod set in lupins.

Location: Nabawa

To examine the …

Agronomy Of Dwarf Oats., W. K. Anderson, R. Mclean, R. Mctaggart, G. Parlevliet, J. Warren, M. Page

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Location: Mt Barker Research Station, Pardelup Prison Farm, Kojonup, Williams and Mayanup.

Time of sowing x oat cultivars, 87AL6, 87BR5, 87KA4, 87MT4, 87NA7.

N rates x oat cultivars, 87AL4, 87BR8, 87KA2, 87MT2, 87NA5.

Seed rates x oat cultivars, 87AL5, 87BR4, 87KA3, 87MT3, 87NA6.

Oat cultivar factorial, 87AL7, 87BR6, 87KA5, 87MT5, 87NA8.

Agronomy Of Wheat Cultivars., W. K. Anderson, M. Seymour

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Location: Northam, Wongan Hills, East Beverley, Corrigin and Merredin.

Time of sowing x wheat cultivars, 87N07, 87N011, 87WH7, 87NA4, 87M11. Time of sowing x wheat cultivars.

Nitrogen rates x wheat cultivars, 87N05, 87N09, 87WH5, 87NA2, 87M9.

Seed rates x wheat cultivars, 87N06, 87N010, 87WH6, 8JNA3, 87M10.

Wheat cultivar factorial, 87N04, 87N08, 87WH4, 87NA1.

High Input Barley Production Systems In The High Rainfall Zone., G. J. Parlevliet

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Barley systems in the high rainfall zone effect of nitrogen fungicides and seeding rate on barley yield, 87BR2.

Wheat Experimental Results, S. P. Loss

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The development of wheat relative to frost susceptibility, 87NA10. Optimum flowering times of wheat, 87NA11 and 87WH8. Grain growth and development of a historical set of wheats.

Selection Of Sub Clover Cultivars - Early Maturing., Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia.

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87KA39.

Location: Nyabing

To select in the field, subterranean clover cultivars of early maturity having superior persistence and productivity.

Evaluation Of New Pasture Legume Species In Terms Of Summer Feeding Value And Effects On Wool Production., S E. Flecker, C W. Thorn, J. B. Rowe, Tess Casson

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

86KA71, Pasture legumes improve the feeding value of summer pastures in a mediterranean-type environment by maintaining the protein intake of grazing animals over the dry summer period, much of which comes from the ingestion of legume burr (A.D. Wilson and N.L. Hindley, 1968). Some of the most important species of pasture legumes to have been released commercially are Trifolium subterraneum (sub.clover), Medicago truncatula (barrel medic) and Medicago polymorpha (burr medic) (D.B. Purser, G.B. Taylor and W.J. Collins, 1987). What little information is available on the feeding value of these species suggests that barrel medic pod (H. Brownlee, 1973) and dry …

Serradella Line Evaluation — Stage 2, L. Cransberg

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 85AL55.

Location: South Sterlings

To evaluate 23 promising serradella lines in terms of herbage and seed production and regenerative ability.

Trial 80na6, I Rowland., W Hawkins

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 80NA6. Location - B. Harrington, 6 km west of Darkin.

Cleared 1962, cropped 1977 (oats), 1978 (oats and Lupins), pasture in 1979. Continuously cropped to cereals up to 1986, then changed to wheat after wheat, lupins or clover.

Sheep Production Systems On Mediterranean Annual Pastures., Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia.

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 84V2.

Location: Vasse Research Station

Aims: To define seasonal pasture production curves for three rainfall zones in Western Australia. To determine animal productivity under different production systems in response to seasonal pasture production. To provide Western Australian data useful for validation of sheep simulation models. To provide data for different production systems to increase the scope of the simulation models.

Harvested And Grazed Lupin Stubbles On Following Wheat South Carrabin., J W. Bowden

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Location: South Carrabin lease block

Harvested and grazed lupin stubbles on following wheat. Trial 86M8

This trial is difficult to analyze statistically because of the treatment changes induced by sheep breaking in to some of the plots. Further, lupin grain yields were not very high and so differences between harvested and unharvested treatments are not large. Also the grazing intensity was not very severe (except on the unintentionally grazed plots) and so the effect of grazing is also relatively small.

Trial 87M7

Nitrogen phosphorus and irrigation of wheat.

Location: South Carrabin.

This trial was designed to give a nitrogen/phosphorus response …

Nitrogenous Fertilizers For Cereals In Different Rotations Results From 1987 Trials, I Rowland, M G. Mason

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Lupin/Wheat Rotation *86T826, 86M44, 86WH36, 86T826.

Nitrogen Fertilizer Requirement in Alternate Crop-Pasture Rotation 78BA1 ,78WH2

Nitrogen Requirement for Wheat After Clover, Lupins and Cereal 86BA3

Pea/Wheat Rotation 86M39, *86ME64

Trial 68e5, I Rowland., W E. Hawkins

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 68E5. Location paddock N1A on Esperance Downs Research Station (Gibson). Long term rotation trials.

Cleared in 1951 and sown to clover, cropped in 1961 and 1962 then Woogenellup sub clover and Brome grass were sown in 1963, topdressed until the start of the trial in 1968. Lupins were sown in trial in 1974. Esperance sub clover has been established on all plots.

Root And Foliar Diseases Of Cereals On Sandplain In The Geraldton Area 1987, Wilson Jill

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Rotation trial (common root rot), 87GE87.

Inoculation trials (common root rot), 87GE88.

Common root rot surveys.

Cereal management trial, 87GE97.

Control Of Cereal Crop Diseases By Manipulation Of Pasture Composition., W Macleod

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Rotation for wheat comparing pure clover ley with a pasture ley, 79E15.

Pasture renovation techniques and crop production in a 1:2 rotation, 81E35.

Pasture manipulation – effects on take all, 85E32.

Timing of spray topping and herbicides, 86MT64, 86E55.

Effect of herbicide application on take all inoculum, 87MD12.

The effects of pre and post sowing herbicides on wheat root diseases.

Herbicide disease interaction in recommended varieties, 87E29, 87MT51.

Rhizoctonia Bare Patch Of Cereals And Lupins, G C. Macnish, M W. Sweetingham

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

To determine the stimuli for the formation of rhizoctonia patches in cereals and lupins.

Developing A Soil Test For Wodgil Soils In The Eastern Wheatbelt., S Carr

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87ME77

Location: Eastern Wheatbelt.

One of the better sites in terms of productivity. This site was sown at two times, initially 4 reps were sown but as it was very dry the remaining 8 reps were sown after additional rain. This split seeding did not seem to adversely affect the trial

Trial 87ME78

Location: Eastern Wheatbelt.

A poor site, towards the middle of the range of the ten sites sown. The very high basal N and P fertilizer applied

Boron Toxicity In Peas, M M. Riley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

To investigate the effects of high levels of soil boron on the growth of field peas.
87SG3/4864, 87SG1

Barley Screening Techniques., G. Elliott

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Barley Phenology trials BQPHE Chapman, Esperance, Merredin, BQPWH, Wongan Hills. Nitrogen use efficiency trial, BZNIT, Wongan Hills. Early vigour trial BZE6V Chapman, East Chapman, Merredin, Mt. Barker.

Trial 65sg5, I Rowland., W Hawkins

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 65SG5. Location - Paddock H5 on Salmon Gum Research Station

Cleared in 1962, then cropped until the start of the trial in 1968. Two of the four blocks were sown to Cyprus Barrel medic which is topdressed with superphosphate. The other two blocks regenerate volunteer pasture which is not topdressed. In 1984 all pasture plots were sown to SERENA medic. This grew exceptionally well in 1984 and set a lot of seed. In 1987 field peas were introduced into 4 reps of an existing medic: crop rotation.

Individual Trial Data., P J. Dolling

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Responses to species of lime.

87NA91

87A137

87KA77