Murray Sharman

Plant virologist. Grain legumes, oilseeds, cotton. Previously bananas and veggies. Comments are mine.

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@IamFarmerRenee I thought it would be the opposite if the mines have increased their charter flights.

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@IamFarmerRenee I'm looking to come up first week Dec. It's insanely expensive on most flights. Has Virgin cut flights to EMD? Seems to be price gouging by the flying skippy.

[Ed Sikora @alabamaED]

NEMATODE MONDAY Good visiting with Dinesh Kafle @DineshCotton to discuss his reniforn nematode project w/t the Department of Agriculture & Fisheries in Queensland at the poster session of the AustralAsian Plant Pathology Conference in Adelaide @Plant_Pathogens #2023APPSAdelaide

[Paul Daly @paulSH02]

Very interesting talk from David Guest about using dogs to sniff for Phytophthora infections @Plant_Pathogens #2023APPSAdelaide

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@paulSH02 @Plant_Pathogens So disappointing I missed this talk. I hope it has a pre-recorded option.

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After about 120 talks and probably greater than 2000 slides of high quality plant pathology research, questions and challenges, that's a wrap for #2023APPSAdelaide. @Plant_Pathogens

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@LouiseSShuey great talk about devastating Myrtle rust and anchoring the last plenary talk at #2023APPSAdelaide
@Plant_Pathogens

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@Plant_Pathogens #2023APPSAdelaide

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#2023APPSAdelaide

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Rohan Kimber taking his APPS session Chair role to next level with his Nerf gun time keeper 😀
@Plant_Pathogens

[CottonInfo @CottonInfoAust]

🩲🌱 SOIL YOUR UNDIES NOW🩲🌱

If you bury some 100% cotton undies this week/end you can dig them up in 7-8 weeks time on World Soil Day (Dec 5) + get an excellent measure of microbial activity in your dirt!

REO in the Gwydir @NellMontH2O did just that this morning-stay tuned!

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@Jenson_Melanie To be more real world, I think it needs to be dark with a heavy coffee table and Tonka truck added in there too.

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@Jenson_Melanie Just when I was getting bored of Twitter, it delivers gems like this.

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Kaitlyn Bissonnette (US Cotton Incorporated) sharing the challenges in US cotton at the AACS conference.
@AusCottonSci

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@WarrenConaty @AusCottonSci Lol, a frightening entrance to the conference.

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@SusanMaas4 No virus symptoms but the CBTV-2 LAMP I'm doing right now is indicating a positive! That was not what I was expecting. I'll need to retest with a different PCR to be sure I haven't messed something up.

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Gossypium sturtianum in pub carpark, Hawker, South Australia. Not a plant I was expecting to see this far south!

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@SusanMaas4 No symptoms, but I think G. sturtianum doesn't display symptoms based on what we found in that small population at Mt McLaren, CQ.

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@SusanMaas4 I collected it (of course :-)). I'll send to the SA Herbarium to maybe add another dot on the map of distribution. I think I'll also test it for CBT, just in case!

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@SusanMaas4 You can imagine the number of pubs I had to visit in South Australia before I finally found one in the carpark!