Fruit fly host status testing of a new passionfruit cultivar

Fruit fly host status testing of a new passionfruit cultivar.

Quantifying surfactant interaction effects on soil moisture

Quantifying surfactant interaction effects on soil moisture and turf quality.

Testing Postharvest Mango treatments

The effectiveness of Amistar and ASM combinations, in reducing the severity of postharvest anthracnose and stem end rot in mango.

Soil fertility in sweetpotato-based cropping systems in the highlands of Papua New Guinea

The main outputs anticipated include enchanced knowledge of key water-nutrient dynamics in relation to key soil management techniques and a suite of improved and practical soil management options in sweet potatoes.

Vegetable soil health systems for overcoming limitations causing soil borne diseases

The purpose of the report is to summarise progress in developing vegetable production systems with improved soil health that overcome soil limitations with the potential to suppress soil borne diseases. Management approaches to soil health improvement were regionally specific to overcome regional soil limitations in different production environments.

ACIAR Improving soil health in support of sustainable development in the Pacific

The proposed project focuses on developing research-based indicators that growers and extensionists can use to assess soil health status (including key chemical, physical and biological variables), as well as extension approaches to communicate soil health.

Soil C stocks in grains and sugar farming systems

Quantify soil C stocks in grains and sugarcane cropping systems of Queensland, including impacts of management practices.

Innovative management of herbicide resistant weeds - seed banks and soil biology

The project will evaluate seed bank depletion of key northern herbicide resistant weeds under different environments, cropping systems, crop agronomies and non-chemical control tactics. The project will also evaluate soil biology and seed bank relationships to explain differences in seed bank persistence.

Crop sequences to manage soil pathogens and increase northern grain production

This is part of a GRDC funded project led by Dr Jeremy Whish of CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences. The project aims to build a root-lesion nematode module into the crop growth simulation program APSIM (Agricultural Production Systems Simulator). This will utilise existing nematode and crop data from field, glasshouse and laboratory research led by Dr John Thompson. New data will be collected to validate and extend the model.

The missing link of crime analysis: A systematic approach to testing competing hypotheses

Crime analysts have traditionally received little guidance from academic researchers in key tasks in the analysis process, specifically the testing of multiple hypotheses and evaluating evidence in a scientific fashion. This article attempts to fill this gap by outlining a method (the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses) of systematically analysing multiple explanations for crime problems. The method is systematic, avoids many cognitive errors common in analysis, and is explicit. It is argued that the implementation of this approach makes analytic products audit-able, the reasoning underpinning them transparent, and provides intelligence managers a rational professional development tool for individual analysts.

National soil health consortium

Work with Land and Water Australia to coordinate soil health work across Queensland and Australia.

Declining soil phosphorus reserves on sustainable agricultural production systems

PhD scholarship investigating the relative sensitivity of nitrogen fixation in adapted grain and ley legume species to low soil phosphorus.

Sorghum Midge Testing Scheme

Scheme provides independant testing and official industry midge resistance rating of pre-commercial sorghum varieities.

DAQ00049 Farming Systems for Central Queensalnd Soil Research and Monitoring

Sustainable Farming Systems for Central Queensland.