Cereals and Crops 

This theme includes conference papers from the conference sessions Traits for improved winter cereals, Tropical cereals, Cover crops, Crop sequencing, New break crop options, and Novel cropping systems 2.

Break crops revisited
JF Angus

Frequency analysis of environment types associated with late-maturity alpha-amylase for Australian wheat under current and future climates
Robert Armstrong, Graeme Hammer, Andries Potgieter

Through the looking glass: relative performance of farming systems of the future
Lindsay Bell, David Lawrence, Guy McMullen, Darren Aisthorpe, Andrew Erbacher, Greg Brooke, Jon Baird, Jayne Gentry, Brook Anderson, Andrew Zull

Maximising water-limited yield in cereals by balancing pre- and post-anthesis growth
Andrew Borrell, Jack Christopher, Alison Kelly, Brian Collins and Karine Chenu

Evaluation of harvest index as an indirect early generation selection trait for yield in winter wheat
David J Cann, James R Hunt, Allan Rattey Felicity AJ Harris, and Kenton D Porker

Winter cereals for tropical Australia
Phillip Banks, Douglas Lush, and Jack Christopher

New legume species as opportunistic summer crops for southern Australia –Part 1: Environmental suitability
Christy BP, Delahunty AJ, Norton SL, Wallace AJ, Riffkin PA, O’Leary GJ, and Nuttall JG

Vegetative competition between crops grown in intercropping systems
Suraweera, DD, Riffkin PA, Christy, BP, O’Leary, GJ, McCaskill, MR, Mitchell, ML

Summer cropping and rotational effects on following winter crops in western Victoria
Clancy A, Perry E, Delahunty A, Wallace A, Riffkin P and Nuttall J

Digging up the hidden half of Australian barley
C. Mariano Cossani, Jairo Palta, Victor O. Sadras

Symmetric competition between neighbours explains genetic gains in wheat yield
C. Mariano Cossani and Victor O. Sadras

New legume species as opportunistic summer crops for southern Australia – Part 2 Exploring global germplasm for increasing crop adaptation
Delahunty A, Wallace A, Norton S, Henry F, Riffkin P, Christy B, Brand J, Clancy A, Silwal S, Partington D, Walker C, Nuttall J

Evaluation of reduced height dwarfing gene, Rht1 and Rhtt18 for coleoptile length in Durum wheat
Ram Devkota, Nigel W.M. Warwick and Gururaj P. Kadkol

Agronomic evaluation of the effects of two green manure cover crops on maize (Zea mays) cultivation in four-agroecological zones of Benin
JAD Dossou, RVC Diogo, MG Gbedjisokpa, AB Seidou, GA Awéha and BK Paul

Genomic prediction to accelerate breeding potential for increased transpiration efficiency in wheat
Andrew Fletcher, Jack Christopher, Alison Kelly and Karine Chenu

Exploiting the variability and heritability of leaf angle in sorghum to design optimal canopies for different target environments
Barbara George-Jaeggli, Alex Wu, Greg McLean, Xiaoyu Zhi, Sean Reynolds Massey-Reed, David Jordan and Graeme Hammer

Genotypic variation in transpiration and grain yield in a japonica rice diversity set grown under aerobic conditions
Wenliu Gong, Christopher Proud, Shu Fukai, Jaquie Mitchell

Design of sustainable dryland crop rotations require value judgments
Zvi Hochman, Javier Navarro Garcia, Heidi Horan, Jeremy Whish, Lindsay Bell

Metrics for evaluating intercropping in broadacre farming systems
Khanal U, Stott KJ, Armstrong R, Nuttall JG, Henry F, Christy BP,Mitchell M, Riffkin PA, Wallace AJ, McCaskill M, Thayalakumaran T and O’Leary GJ

Evaluation of upland and lowland rice root morphology for drought tolerance
Eseeri Kisaakye and Erik Murchie

Effect of nitrogen fertiliser application on canopy architecture in the MAGIC wheat population
Eseeri Kisaakye, Laura Monteiro Malzone, Angela Merry and Tina Botwright Acuña

Developing Sesame as a new heat and drought tolerant summer crop option in northern farming systems – Herbicide options
Tony Matchett and Michael Widderick

Opportunities for summer crops in non-irrigated winter cropping systems in southern Australia
McCaskill MR, Thayalakumaran T, Christy BP, Riffkin PA, Boyd D, and O’Leary GJ

Designing rice to improve water productivity for temperate production
Jaquie Mitchell, Christopher Proud, Ricky Vinarao, Wenliu Gong, Brian Dunn, Peter Snell and Shu Fukai

Winter intercropping shows advantages in northeast Victoria
Mitchell M, Christy B, Stott K, Khanal U, Riffkin P, Wallace A and O’Leary G

Intercropping to exploit winter and summer rainfall for profit in Victoria
O’Leary GJ, Wallace AJ, Nuttall JG, Armstrong RD, Jha V, Thayalakumaran T, Christy BP, Mitchell ML, Riffkin PA, Henry FJ, McCaskill MR, Khanal U and Stott KJ

Biomass production, water use and root growth of a range of summer cover crop species in a semi-arid cropping environment
Shahnaj Parvin, Jason Condon and Terry Rose

The potential for intercropping in Australian farming systems and pathways to adoption
Roberts P, Fletcher A, Kirkegaard J O’Leary G and Dowling A

De-risking broadacre cropping in northern Queensland
Rodriguez D, Eyre J, Broad I, Mclaughlin J

The puzzling role of water-soluble carbohydrates in the algorithm of wheat yield
Victor Sadras

Assessing early-vigour in oat genotypes for cover crop use in New Zealand
Edmar Teixeira, Mike George, Paul Johnston, Brendon Malcolm, Jian Liu, Robert Ward, Hamish Brown, Rogerio Cichota, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Kate Richards, Paul Johnstone

Does the cropping system influence the optimum crop design in sorghum?
Lyle Thomas, Peter de Voil, Daniel Rodriguez

Combining agronomy and genomics to design future crops
Ben Trevaskis, Jessica Hyles, Felicity Harris, and James R. Hunt

The Performance and Feasibility of Carinata in Australia
A van Herwaarden, R Bennett, T Potter, C Lambrides, N Gororo, H Krakowski, V Arief, W Leveque, and P Salisbury

Relationship of root cone angle with key physiological traits and grain yield of rice grown in aerobic production systems
Vinarao R, Proud C, Snell P, Fukai S, and Mitchell J

Water use of cereal, oilseed and grain legume crops within intercropping systems of southern Australia
Wallace A, Christy B, Mitchell M, Nuttall J, O’Leary G

Response characteristics of leaf assimilate supply and silk sucrose metabolism in maize to drought stress
Zhiwei Wang, Weiwei Sun, Yangyang Li, Brian Collins, Youhong Song

Understanding the risk and return of intensifying a rotation with opportunity crops.
Jeremy Whish, Lindsay Bell, and Peter DeVoil

Prediction of wheat leaf appearance through integration of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with a crop model
Bangyou Zheng, Hamish Brown, Zhigan Zhao, Enli Wang, Neil Huth, Shannon Dillon, Jessica Hyles, Tina Rathjen, Maxwell Bloomfield, Corinne Celestina, James Hunt, Ben Trevaskis