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 control tactics and also cover work the team is doing in pre-emergent herbicides. 

In the podcast, Roberto mentions a range of resources that discuss the work of the agronomy team. 

‘Intelligent’ weeds evolve to evade controls: https://grdc.com.au/news-and-media/news-and-media-releases/national/2020/may/intelligent-weeds-evolve-to-evade-controls

Fighting weeds with plants in the west: https://groundcover.grdc.com.au/weeds-pests-diseases/weeds/plant-establishment-critical-to-out-compete-weeds

The interaction between wheat (Triticum aestivum), time-of-seeding and choice of pre-emergent herbicide on annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) growth and competition: https://grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/grdc-update-papers/tab-content/grdc-update-papers/2020/02/the-interaction-between-wheat-triticum-aestivum,-time-of-seeding-and-choice-of-pre-emergent-herbicide-on-annual-ryegrass-lolium-rigidum-growth-and-competition.

This research Roberto talks about in this podcast will be presented by AHRI Weed Agronomy Lead Mike Ashworth at the Crop Protection Forum in Perth in December (get your tickets here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/crop-protection-forum-2020/) and also at GRDC Updates in 2021.

AHRI agronomy update with Research Officer Roberto Lujan Rocha

AHRI Snapshots is a podcast which provides information on what we do at the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative. Our researchers work out of the University of Western Australia, right next to the beautiful Swan River in WA's capital, Perth.