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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 3d

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 10 Oct, come hear from CCDM’s Arundhati Singh as she explores From seed to leaf: mapping fluxapyroxad dynamics 🍃

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 8d

🌾 WA growers – how’s the season going for you?

In our latest CCDM Spotlight, David Lane & Mark Gibberd discuss the season, early fungicide application and future planning 👀 🦠

📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/uspzo3h

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Mark Derbyshire 🐑 @mcderbyshire.bsky.social · 13d

Big reveal today! After uncovering the #sclerotinia in canola trial at @curtinuniversity.bsky.social for the first time in a week, we see exceptionally good and seemingly consistent infections! @theccdm.bsky.social @tobyenewman.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 10d

🌾 Central NSW growers – how’s the season going for you?

In our latest CCDM Spotlight, Emma Ayliffe & Mark Gibberd discuss the low foliar disease pressure and how for dryland croppers eyes are turning to crown rot 👀 🦠

📰 Read the seasonal update here: buff.ly/UYxx6Nt

Emma Ayliffe, NSW | Seasonal Update September 2025

Seasonal update – what’s happening where, as the 2025 season continues? The 2025 season is well underway; everyone’s crops are in. Here, CCDM gathers 4 local updates from around Australia on how…

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 13d

🌏 Spotlight Seasonal Update 🌏
The 2025 season has begun; some early crops are on their way and some are just emerging now. We got 4 local updates from around Australia earlier this month on how it’s starting out.
📰 Read more: buff.ly/uspzo3h

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 14d

🌾 Canola field trials in action at @CurtinUni! 🌾
We're testing 9 varieties across 660 plants to better understand resistance to Sclerotinia stem rot. Covered plots + red rice inoculation = ideal conditions for disease development. 🍚🦠
#theGRDC #CurtinUni @mcderbyshire.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 16d

Our fungicide resistance team joined the Stirlings to Coast Farmers field day last week sharing insights and collecting disease samples.
Leon Hodgson & Nola D’Souza gave some great updates on fungicide testing, resistance mapping & AFREN 🌿
📷: #Stirlings2Coast
#theGRDC #CurtinUni

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 19d

Our @theccdm.bsky.social postdoc @callumverdonk.bsky.social came up with the goods @cbsmwa.bsky.social!!! Congrats on the New Investigator Award! 🏆💪 #CBSMWA #CBSMWA2025

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Johannes Debler @jwdebler.bsky.social · 20d

Dr. @jamespblloyd.bsky.social and @theccdm.bsky.social Dr. Liz Czislowski wrapping up the Biodiversity session at @cbsmwa.bsky.social with synthetic gene circuits for plants in space and novel nucleic acid based nanoparticle fungicides

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Johannes Debler @jwdebler.bsky.social · 20d

Having fun at @cbsmwa.bsky.social presenting work on "The Entity", a circular genetic element we keep finding in unrelated fungal plant pathogens. #cbsmwa @theccdm.bsky.social

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Callum Verdonk @callumverdonk.bsky.social · 20d

Big thank you to @cbsmwa.bsky.social for letting me waffle on about my work on Pf2 and it's role in effector regulation! #effectors #CBSMWA #CBSM @theccdm.bsky.social @karchuntan.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 17d

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 26 September, come hear from CCDMs Ancy Tony as she explores Developing Genetic Resistance in Wheat to Powdery Mildew 🌾

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 20d

🌱 It’s been a brilliant week at #IFLRC2025 & #APC2025 in Perth!
🔬 CCDM kicked things off with the welcome reception and we had great talks from @larskamphuis.bsky.social & Bernadette Henares, plus posters from CCDM staff.
🎉Congrats to all that worked hard to run this conference.
#theGRDC #CurtinUni

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Johannes Debler @jwdebler.bsky.social · 23d

Come see Peter at #CBSMWA on Friday and at @theccdm.bsky.social on Thursday :-)

Peter Solomon @plantpathpete.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to be Plenary Speaker at the Combined Biological Sciences Meeting in Western Australia on Sept 19 at UWA! I’ll share a novel plant immunity pathway + a few career reflections. Can’t wait to reconnect with WA friends + hear top biology from the west! cbsmwa.au @cbsmwa.bsky.social #CBSM2025

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 20d

📢💥Team work pays off!!! Looks @theccdm.bsky.social lads found a new epistasis-regulated (probable) necrotrophic effector from Stago nodorum @callumverdonk.bsky.social @ShotaMorikawa69

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 21d

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Tues 23 Sept, come hear from RICA Seed Center’s Joseph Moughan as he explores Driving Conservation Agriculture Principles in the Seed Sector of Rwanda and Lessons for East-Central Africa.

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KC👨‍🔬🌾🍄🇦🇺 @karchuntan.bsky.social · 24d

1,2,3...The @theccdm.bsky.social lads teamed up for an effector bioassay experiment 😁 @callumverdonk.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 24d

Make sure to add this week's CCDM seminar talk to your calendar 📆

If you're on @CurtinUni campus Thursday 18 September, come hear from Australian National University’s Peter Solomon as he explores What is happening in the Solomon Lab? 🧪🔬

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · 28d

🎤 Big congrats to Nimllash Thangam for making it to the #FameLab Australia National Final! 🌱
Catch his talk on pathogens in lentil crops & how molecular tools are fast-tracking crop protection 🌾🧬
📅 Sept 18 📍 @wamuseum.bsky.social
🎟️ visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/...
#CurtinUni #theGRDC

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Sep 9

🌱 Less than a week to go until the 8th International Food Legume Research Conference and the 5th Australian Pulse Conference! 🌿
📅 15–19 Sept | 📍 Pan Pacific Perth
🌍 Dive into legume science, sustainability & global markets!
🔗 Register: www.iflrc-apc2025.com/registration/

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Sep 8

🧠 Can AI help us understand how fungal pathogens infect plants? A new review says yes. AI tools show promise in modelling effector–plant protein interactions to fight crop disease🌾
📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...
#GRDC #CurtinUni @callumverdonk.bsky.social @kgagalova.bsky.social @mcderbyshire.bsky.social

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Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Make sure to add this week's CCDM talk to your calendar 📆 If you're on #CurtinUni campus Friday 12 Sept, come hear from CCDM's Erin Elstermann and Melanie Dixon as they explore How can we support the adoption of best practice research data management in
the grains industry? 👩‍💻

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's been a bright sunny day down at Newdegate Machinery Field Day ☀️
Our researchers have had a great time chatting to plenty of locals about all things crop disease! 🌾
We will be around in the GRDC tent for the rest of today and tomorrow, so come down to say hi 👋
#theGRDC #CurtinUni

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Aug 29

We’re packing up the microscopes and heading to Newdegate Field Day next week🌾🔬

You’ll find the CCDM team in #theGRDC tent at Oval Site 77, ready to chat about crop disease research, share what we’re working on, and answer your questions.

Centre for Crop and Disease Management @theccdm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Still a bit of time left for Day 2 of Dowerin Field Day! 🌾

We have plenty of staff down who are ready to chat all about their research and answer your crop disease and ag data questions 🦠 👩‍💻

Come down to the GRDC tent on the oval to grab a coffee with us ☕
#theGRDC #CurtinUni

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