CCDM

The Centre for Crop and Disease Management (CCDM), with investment and co-support from Curtin and GRDC, reduces the impact of crop disease for Aussie growers.

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🌾 Day 2 of the AAGI Symposium in Perth!
The Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) Symposium is in full swing, with CCDM bringing the AAGI community together for research, discussion and collaboration.
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🌾 Fungicide-resistant wheat powdery mildew is becoming harder to manage.
Here how our CCDM researchers are uncovering new sources of genetic resistance to help breeders develop more resilient wheat varieties for Australian growers.
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🌾 Condobolin and Lake Cargelligo growers – how’s the season finishing up for you? In this video, hear from Emma Ayliffe (Summit Ag Agricultural Consulting, NSW) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director).
📖 Read the full seasonal update here: https://t.co/p5YypxQbm1
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🌾 New genetic resistance could help wheat growers stay ahead of powdery mildew as fungicide resistance spreads.

Research from @theCCDM and @InterGrain1 has identified promising wheat lines that could support more durable resistance in future varieties.

🔗 https://t.co/fWrQtB1txG

#Wheat #PowderyMildew #CropProtection

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🌾 Western Victorian growers – how’s the season finishing up for you? 🌱
In this video, hear from Brendan Smith (WesternAg, VIC) and Mark Gibberd (CCDM Director) 📖 Read the full seasonal update here: https://t.co/p5YypxQbm1
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🌱 Meet Pavel Misiun, a CCDM PhD student using AI and structural bioinformatics to better understand crop disease.
His research explores how fungal pathogen proteins interact with plants, helping support more disease-resistant crops.
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Harvest is underway, but how has the season shaped up across Australia?
Hear from agronomists across five states, plus insights from CCDM Director Mark Gibberd. 🌾
👉 Read the full update here: https://t.co/p5YypxQbm1
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🎓 Student Spotlight
Meet Rahmat Musah, a PhD student whose research is focused on developing innovative tools to detect and manage fungicide resistance in grape powdery mildew, one of the most significant diseases affecting vineyards worldwide.
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🎓 Congratulations to CCDM PhD graduate Arundhati Singha on receiving the Chancellor’s Award for an Exceptionally High Standard Thesis!
Her PhD explored how fungicides move through plants and how this can influence disease control and fungicide resistance. 👏
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🎤 CCDM speaker alert!
Research Fellow Toby Newman is presenting at A-RNA 2026 in Brisbane this Wednesday at 1:25pm!
His talk explores the role of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum small RNAs in its interactions with host plants. 🌱
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Three new papers from our Foundations group, each forming part of a PhD research project!
🔗 https://t.co/V6H85qHsls
🔗 https://t.co/1jd3jo7zgs
🔗https://t.co/uPRCaX1Pix
👏 Congratulations to everyone involved in bringing this research to publication!
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🌱Come intern at CCDM
Undergraduate Research Experience Programs offers paid summer research internships valued at $4,000 - only for second-year undergraduate students.
Applications close 30 November 2026.
🔗 https://t.co/LJg7fa17t1

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🌾 CCDM’s Associate Professor Julia Easton will present at #FoodAgilityCongress2026, showcasing how Food Agility-supported research is turning farm data into better decisions for growers, industry and government.
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🌾 The CCDM AAGI team recently visited AGT in Northam, touring a wheat breeding trial site and learning about the journey from research to new crop varieties. Thanks to Dion Bennett and Usman Ijaz for an insightful Breeding 101 crash course.
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🌱 CCDM researchers Bernadette Henares and Nimllash Thangam will be presenting at the Pulse Pathology Meeting in Tamworth on 29 September.
Best of luck, Bernadette and Nim! 👏
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🌾 CCDM researchers found that spot form net blotch resistance can vary between genetic sources, highlighting the need to compare resistance genes before breeding deployment.
📖 Read more: https://t.co/1sxt2WDSLX
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🌱 CCDM researchers are screening lentil and chickpea breeding lines for resistance to Ascochyta blight, helping identify valuable genetic resistance that can support the development of more resilient pulse varieties for growers.
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🌾 CCDM researchers have identified a mutation in barley loose smut linked to reduced sensitivity to SDHI (Group 7) fungicides.
Read more:https://t.co/DAyCHY4aIM
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🌾 CCDM staff, Fatima Naim and Callum Verdonk, will be presenting their research at #ComBio2026 in Sydney on 30 September.
ComBio provides a platform for researchers to share cutting-edge discoveries and foster collaborations.
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🎉 Congratulations to CCDM PhD student Ciara Gifford on winning the Kliti Grice Laureate Award. Her honours research used hyperspectral sensing to improve our understanding of wheat responses to yellow spot disease. 🌾👏
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