Postdoctoral researcher at CSIRO with a GRDC ECR Fellowship. Trying to do agronomy like a physiologist and physiology like an agronomist.
Adelaide, South Australia
Joined May 2019
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New (open-access) paper! I tried to figure out how to talk about pod-set in faba bean properly.
Key takeaway: Interactions between pods are agronomically irrelevant except after stress that kills flowers/pods. Focus on crop growth from flowering!
doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf176
One for the trial perfectionists! Precision planting without a small-plot precision seeder 🤤
Phillip Porter at Livyn Seeds can (very affordably) place your seeds in dissolvable tape at the desired spacing.
livynseed.com.au/
Excited to unpack my PhD findings with growers! I aim to clarify what faba bean is doing so that we can make it do what we want it to do better. I'll also aim to use better sentences than that one.
🎤 Wimmera faba bean growers – don’t miss out!
Join @trialsofJManson at March discussion groups as he unpacks ‘From Flower to Pod to Yield: What’s Holding Your Beans Back?’ 🌱
🔗 RSVP: surveymonkey.com/r/keenbeans #WimmeraBeans @jasonbrand @michaelmoodie @nickzordan @matthew_sparke
We love the jacarandas in Adelaide. I love the opportunity to show how nearly all flowering plants overproduce and cull flowers, not just faba bean 😉🤓
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Great turnout at our South Australia Crop Technology Centre field day today. Morning sessions provided some great insights into the canola and bean trials. Thanks to guest speakers Dr Angela van de Wouw of @UniMelb and James Manson from @UniofAdelaide for joining us to share their expertise. @Pooley_Nick_FAR @darcydww2 @Daniel_in_Ag @AaronVague @Blooming_fields @GRDCSouth @theGRDC @MacKillopGroup
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REMINDER: THIS THURSDAY AT RENDELSHAM
Register today: bit.ly/FAR_SACropTech_FD
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Is it worth windrowing faba beans? Possibly.
Much easier to pick timing compared with canola and the crop can be surprisingly green when ready.
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Once all seeds have black line at hilum faba beans are ready to windrow. This sample a few days off. #easytopick
<insert cheeky comment about molecular biology here>
This is apparently a protein-protein interaction diagram... Published in 2024 by Elsevier's Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2024.…
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New Group 1 powerful chemistry coming to control FOP/DIM resistant grasses. It should be similarly very effective on ARG. 👍 @SyngentaANZ
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Q: How has breeding changed Australian faba bean varieties?
A: See our new paper! (and comments below) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
A (2/2): Yield hasn't increased across the collection, and seed number went down as size went up. To get more seeds, with same or bigger size, we need to increase harvest index and/or biomass somehow. Tackling GxE is also going to be important.
Many thanks to supervisors and co-authors, including @SC_Catt, @Sara_N_Blake, @_mattdenton_ and @JasonBrand!
I shared my thoughts on whether growers should worry about faba bean 'pod-set' or 'pod retention' at the @theGRDC Adelaide Update a couple of weeks ago.
grdc.com.au/resources-and-pu…
A lot of people have done a lot of plant density trials for faba bean (myself included), so here we put them all together to see what we could learn. Open access!
1/4 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
This was my first first-author paper :D Thanks to my supervisors, @AgrifoodUoA and @theGRDC