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AHRI Snapshots
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AHRI Snapshots is a podcast that provides information on what we do at the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, as well as finding out what other researchers in weed science are up to around the country and the world. AHRI's researchers work out of the University of Western Australia, right next to the beautiful Swan River in WA's capital, Perth.
Episodes
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Dr Juan Vorster talks about herbicide resistance challenges in South Africa
In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with an international guest. Dr Juan Vorster is an Associate Professor in Plant and Soil Sciences from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Juan is studying herbicide resistance mechanisms in weeds and the development of effective management...
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Hot spot on goosegrass genome is a herbicide resistance generator
In this AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Principal Research fellow, Dr Qin Yu about her latest paper on glyphosate resistance in goosegrass. This paper was published in Nature Communications in August 2023, which is an impressive achievement. This paper is complicated, but essentially the...
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Hybrid versus open-pollinated canola
Over the last few years, the AHRI agronomy team has done extensive work looking at crop competition in hybrid and open-pollinated canola. Project lead, Dr Mike Ashworth, joins us on this podcast to discuss the findings on ideal seeding rate, variety, row spacing and seed size. Herbicides are...
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What do we do with weed genomes?
In this episode, we catch up with visiting Associate Professor Todd Gaines. Todd is from Colorado State University and is currently working from UWA with AHRI. In September, he’ll be at the International Plant and Animal Genome Australia conference in Perth city, where he’s organising a two-hour...
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Deep learning can tell the difference between white and blue lupins
Blue lupins are notorious for being difficult to control and plants produce prolific seed banks. Blue lupins are closely related to the domesticated narrow-leaf lupin, also known as the white lupin, so whichever herbicide is survived by white lupins is also survived by blue lupins. This is...
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Testing water quality for effective spray application
In this interview we chat with AHRI Research Officer Roberto Lujan Rocha about the survey work he has conducted on the quality of water sourced on farm for spray application. This project is a collaboration between University of Western Australia, AHRI and the Centre for Water & Spatial Science....
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How scientists are studying summer weeds to predict and mitigate future resistance
As reliance on pre-emergent herbicides for both broadleaf and grass species is increasing, it’s essential to understand the dynamics of weed-herbicide interactions in the field. Dr Mahima Krishnan and her colleagues from University of Adelaide are in the process of studying populations of summer...
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Cinmethylin couldn't be broken, but diversity is key to keeping it that way
On this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with former AHRI master’s student Geide Figueiredo (also known as JD) who worked alongside AHRI researcher Roberto Busi to try and break the herbicide cinmethylin, commercially known as Luximax. Fortunately, they weren't able to break it, which...
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Dr Aimone Porri talks on AHRI collaboration and his recent work on PPO mutations
In this interview, AHRI's Jessica Strauss chats with Dr Aimone Porri, who is the Laboratory Head for Herbicide Target and Weed Resistance Research at BASF, based in Germany. Aimone's work spans across several fields in the weeds resistance research space, including working as a Geneticist,...
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The benefits of 3D mapping soil moisture
In our first episode back for AHRI Snapshots this year, we chat with Dr Hira Shaukat, who previously was an AHRI PhD candidate. Hira worked on 3D mapping of soil moisture throughout her PhD. Part of her work involved looking at how farmers could utilise degraded land affected by salinity. This...
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Professor Steve Duke talks on upcoming Herbicide Discovery and Development conference
This month on the podcast, we’re going to be finding out about the upcoming Herbicide Discovery and Development Conference, which is happening from January 18 to 20, 2023 at Curtin University. Due to genetic resistance to many of the most used herbicides, the need for new ones is greater than…
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Incoming Director Ken Flower shares his vision for AHRI
On AHRI Snapshots this month, we have an exciting episode, as we catch up with AHRI’s incoming Director, Associate Professor Ken Flower. Ken would be familiar to listeners as he’s been involved in AHRI projects for several years, contributing his substantial knowledge in no-till and agronomy to…
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Don't stop thinkin' bout tomorrow when it comes to weeds, disease and insect control
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow is the theme of the upcoming Crop Protection Forum in Wagga Wagga next month. In this AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with event organiser, Dr Lizzy Lowe, who is the Senior Extension Scientist for Cesar Australia. This event is held annually, with this year’s…
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Why highly glyphosate resistant plants can’t compete
In this AHRI Snapshots we catch up with Dr Martin Vila-Aiub, who was co-author on a recent publication that our latest AHRI insight covers. It’s all about how highly glyphosate resistant plants can’t compete. AHRI researchers recently teamed up with Martin, who is based in Argentina and other...
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Velocity® resistant wild radish confirmed
AHRI’s Dr Roberto Busi talks about his finding of velocity resistant wild radish in this podcast. It’s not great news for growers – but knowledge is power. At the end of 2019, Roberto Busi started a new herbicide resistance testing service based at UWA. Growers and agronomists sent in about 500...
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The future of LiDAR in detecting weeds at harvest
In this episode, we're catching up with former AHRI PhD candidate, Nooshin Shahbazi, who is officially now a doctor, after her successful PhD completion. Nooshin’s thesis is entitled “Use of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) to detect and map weeds that grow taller than crops at harvest”. We’re...
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Dr Mechelle Owen shares preliminary results from latest random resistance survey
AHRI's Dr Mechelle Owen has been collating data from the 2020 random resistance survey. This is part of a national project, with investment from GRDC. Mechelle has been conducting these random surveys for a number of years and so she shares some of the trends in this interview she has identified...
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AHRI Director Hugh Beckie reflects on achievements ahead of retirement
On this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Professor Hugh Beckie, for the final time! Hugh is retiring from the role of AHRI Director at the end of this month. Hugh has has worked in the field of herbicide resistance for more than 30 years and has been leading AHRI research as Director...
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Reduced cinmethylin sensitivity identified in annual ryegrass in lab
In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI’s Dr Danica Goggin about her latest paper which looks at cinmethylin metabolism in annual ryegrass. Cinmethylin is a relatively new pre-emergent herbicide to Australian cereal cropping farming systems. While there hasn’t been any...
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What is the relationship between developing herbicide resistance, seed size and seed dormancy?
In this interview, we catch up with AHRI Senior Agronomy Researcher, Roberto Lujan Rocha to talk about his latest publication he worked on with Aniruddha Maity, who briefly worked at AHRI just before the pandemic. This study, entitled Concurrent evolution of seed dormancy and herbicide resistance...
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First case of glyphosate & paraquat resistant annual ryegrass found in WA crop field
For the first time in Western Australia, annual ryegrass from a cropped paddock was found to be resistant to glyphosate and paraquat (among other modes of action). AHRI Senior Research Fellow Dr Roberto Busi joins us on the podcast today to give an overview of this finding as a pre-cursor to an...
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Dr Qin Yu's team discovers naturally evolving point mutation which confers resistance to Glufosinate in goosegrass
Glufosinate is an important and widely used non-selective herbicide active on a wide range of plant species. Resistance evolution to glufosinate in weedy plant species, including the global weed Eleusine indica, commonly known as goosegrass, is underway. At AHRI, Principal Research Fellow, Qin Yu...
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AHRI Director Hugh Beckie reflects on 2021
This is the last AHRI Snapshots for 2021! What a year it has been. In this episode we’re catching up with AHRI Director, Hugh Beckie to go over the highlights from AHRI this year. We’ll also get an update on what the plans are for AHRI in 2022. This is now our 6th season of the podcast. Thank you...
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AHRI's getting a new website!
We've got exciting news! AHRI is getting a new website next week! AHRI Communications Officer, Jessica Scholle joins me on the podcast today to chat about this new development and we also give a broader communications update on AHRI. You might've noticed we've been getting to know our AHRI...
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New soil moisture mapping technique proves to be more efficient and accurate
In this interview, we’re catching up with PhD candidate, Hira Shaukat. Hira’s first paper has just been published in the Agriculture Water Management Journal. It’s entitled “Quasi-3D mapping of soil moisture in agricultural fields using electrical conductivity sensing”. The soil moisture...
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What's happening at the Crop Protection Forum next week?
The Crop Protection Forum is next week in Launceston, Tasmania! In its 7th year, the AHRI, CCDM and Cesar Australia Crop Protection Forum will showcase the latest weeds, pests and disease research for riding out the inevitable storm of chemical resistance. Our experts will explore the…
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How phase farming can reduce an annual ryegrass seedbank
In this podcast, we catch up with AHRI Agronomy Researcher Dr Yaseen Khalil about some of the key findings from two of his recent studies. We learn about the effectiveness of different weed control tacts in serradella, which is a legume pasture species. We also learn about how pasture phase…
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Rapid on-farm testing of ryegrass to pre and post-em herbicides explained
On today’s AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with previous AHRI Masters student Martina Badano. Martina worked with Dr Roberto Busi back in 2019 on rapid on-farm testing. Her paper “Rapid On-Farm Testing of Resistance in Lolium rigidum to Key Pre- and Post-Emergence Herbicides” has just been...
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Mixing herbicides could be the answer to Sakura® resistant ryegrass
AHRI researcher, Dr Danica Goggin and others have recently discovered how ryegrass has evolved resistance to Sakura. It’s all about GSTs. Not the tax type, rather gluthione transferase (Danica explains in the podcast why the 'S' was dropped!). Wheat uses GSTs to detoxify and tolerate Sakura, and...
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AHRI on show at WeedSmart Week & research update
In this episode we catch up with AHRI Director Hugh Beckie who recently presented at WeedSmart Week in Esperance. Hugh provides a snapshot into some of the practical research outcomes he was able to share with growers in Esperance in regards to recent results out of the AHRI agronomy team. We…
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Farmer Daniel Birch explains how resistance testing has helped in his planning
Daniel Birch farms at Catalina Farms near Marchagee in WA's wheatbelt. He recently got resistance testing done through Dr Roberto Busi's resistance testing program. Daniel also attended Roberto's last resistance workshop which took place last week in Dalwallinu. In this interview, Daniel…
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New recruit, Dr Candy Taylor, explains how she'll be tackling auxinic herbicide resistance research
On today’s AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with our newest AHRI team member, Dr Candy Taylor! Candy has recently joined the team as a Research Associate. She’s going to be looking at understanding auxinic herbicide resistance dynamics. This work is being supported by an ARC Linkage grant, with...
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How the Area Wide Management project will increase our understanding of weed issues
Today we’re catching up with CSIRO Scientist, Dr Rick Llewellyn. Rick is the Group Leader for Integrated Agricultural Systems and is managing the Area Wide Management, or AWM, project. The project is about engaging local stakeholders in generating a better understanding of the weed issues in…
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Introducing our new Communications Officer, Jessica Scholle!
Today on AHRI Snapshots, we’re chatting with our new Communications Officer, Jessica Scholle. Jessica comes to us from Scitech, which is an Australian not-for-profit science centre based in Perth, WA. From traveling regionally to deliver face-to-face science presentations, to producing…
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Dr Yaseen Khalil provides an update on his pasture rotations project, highlighting key findings
In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI Agronomy Research Associate Dr Yaseen Khalil.Yaseen has been working on pasture rotations, with his project finishing up in December this year. Today, we’re going to get an update on where the project is at so far and find out some of...
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Resistance testing workshops to hit the road
Dr Roberto Busi has been working hard on his GRDC invested project on testing resistant weeds. In this interview, he goes over some of the research updates and the workshops which are taking place this month in WA.Regional Workshops in WA datesEsperance (location to be advised), 2-5pm, Tuesday,...
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New research suggests sowing earlier or later depends on herbicide product used
This week on AHRI Snapshots, we caught up with AHRI Agronomy Lead, Dr Mike Ashworth. Mike has been leading projects on mitigating herbicide resistance, looking at serradella as a break phase crop and blue lupin control in narrow leaf lupins.While some of these projects are still in progress, Mike...
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AHRI researchers discover that 2,4-D synergises metribuzin
In this episode, we’re catching up with AHRI’s Dr Heping Han to talk about some recent research he published on 2,4-D syngergising metribuzin. Australian farmers and agronomists have previously observed synergy between phenoxy herbicides, such as 2,4-D and PSII herbicides, also known as Group C…
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Assessing the capability and potential of LiDAR for weed detection
On this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we’re catching up with AHRI PhD Candidate, Nooshin Shahbazi.In her latest paper, Nooshin has looked at the capability of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors to detect and locate weeds. The results showed the detectability of the target at different...
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Glyphosate resistance mechanism with similarities to cancer drug resistance in humans identified
In this special edition of AHRI Snapshots, we’re talking about some ground-breaking research out of AHRI which has this week been published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA. So, what is the big news? AHRI researchers have identified a new...
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The adaptive value of flowering time in wild radish with Ci Sun
On this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we caught up with AHRI Masters Graduate Ci Sun. She published her first paper as first author recently on the adaptive value of flowering timing in wild radish. The paper has some important key takeaway messages which we get into in this interview.You can read...
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AHRI research update & the weed assessment calculator
We’re well into 2021 and the team at AHRI has been really busy with research and extension. AHRI Director Hugh Beckie joins us on the podcast to provide us with an update on research outcomes out of AHRI, as well as an overview of his new paper on an agricultural weed assessment calculator which...
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Glyphosate resistance in capeweed a world-first finding for AHRI
In this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we’re chatting with AHRI Agronomy Team researcher, Dr Yaseen Khalil about his latest paper which identified the world’s first glyphosate resistant capeweed. You can read AHRI insight on this topic here:...
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Patience and persistence leads to P450 code being cracked
A group of researchers led by Heping Han from AHRI, including researchers from Bayer and Zhejiang University in China have identified the P450 gene responsible for cross resistance to herbicides of at least five modes of action. The gene is CYP81A10v7. Paper author, Prof Steve Powles joins us in...
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Differentiating between weeds and crop at harvest time based on plant height differences
This is our last AHRI Snapshots podcast for 2020! On our final episode, AHRI PhD Candidate Nooshin Shahbazi joins us to talk about her latest paper "Comparison of crop and weed height, for potential differentiation of weed patches at harvest". She has been looking at differentiating between weeds...
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Are herbicide mixtures unaffected by resistance?
Today on AHRI Snapshots we catch up with AHRI’s Dr Roberto Busi. He recently published a paper alongside AHRI's Prof Hugh Beckie which entitled: Are herbicide mixtures unaffected by resistance? A case study with Lolium rigidum. He joins us to tell us what he...
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US researcher Assoc Prof Todd Gaines shares exciting finding on 2,4-D resistance
In this edition of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Colorado State University weeds researcher, Associate Professor Todd Gaines. Todd has previously worked out of AHRI and we thought it would be good to catch up with him to see what he’s focusing on at the moment. Todd recently had a paper…
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An insight into what to expect at the 2020 Crop Protection Forum
This year, AHRI is hosting the 2020 Crop Protection Forum on Tuesday December 8th. This event is a collaboration between AHRI, CCDM and cesar and is designed to deliver the latest research to agronomists and industry in a one-day event. This event was first held in Perth in 2015 when it was…
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AHRI agronomy update with Research Officer Roberto Lujan Rocha
In this week's podcast, we catch up with AHRI Research Officer, Roberto Lujan Rocha who gives an update on where the agronomy team is at with a range of their projects. We talk about how the team is looking at whether certain weeds like ryegrass and wild radish evolve to evade harvest weed seed...
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Fitness of herbicide resistant weeds: what we know and the implications for management
In this episode of AHRI Snapshots, we catch up with Professor Martin Vila-Aiub to find out about his recent paper "Fitness of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds: Current Knowledge and Implications for Management" which was recently published in a special edition of Herbicide Resistance in Plants (you can...
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AHRI Snapshots is a podcast that provides information on what we do at the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, as well as finding out what other researchers in weed science are up to around the country and the world. AHRI's researchers work out of the University of Western Australia, right next to the beautiful Swan River in WA's capital, Perth.
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