Canola production at risk from increased fungicide application
Researchers are asking growers to reassess just how much fungicide they should be applying to canola due to a building resistance threat Crop pathologists and fungal disease experts are concerned about the increasing use of precautionary fungicide applications in canola that local growers are applying. Repeated applications of a single fungicide as ‘cheap insurance’ against […]
High-tech sustainable protection for key Australian crops
Researchers at the University of Queensland are spearheading findings into alternatives to chemical fungicides to protect Australia’s $5 trillion global food and agribusiness sector. University of Queensland’s Professor Neena Mitter said the team from the newly launched $17.5m Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformational Research Hub for Sustainable Crop Protection was building on the university’s […]