Climate

This theme includes conference papers from the conference sessions Agronomy for Managing Water, Assessing and Managing Frost Risk, Assessing and Managing Heat, and Improving Rainfall Capture and Use.

Summer/Autumn Fallow Management Strategies for Improving the Rainfall Use Efficiency of Crops in SE Australia
Adhikari AR, Armstrong R, O’Leary GJ, Butterly C

Stubble and senesced leaves are the primary sites of ice nucleation activity in wheat
Bekuma A, Swift R, Jackson R and Biddulph B

Bacterial ice nucleation activity in rainfall and on crop residues may be increasing frost damage in WA cropping systems
Biddulph Ben, Bekuma Amanuel, Jackson Sarah, Ryan K Cooper Chaiyya, Swift Rebecca and Diepeveen Dean

Reduced nitrogen and seeding rates in frost prone landscapes does not reduce frost damage
Ben Biddulph Rebecca Smith Richard Maccallum Karyn Reeves Sarah Jackson and DeanDiepeveen

Lipid components of leaf and pollen tissue, a possible biochemical trait for breeding heat-tolerant wheat (Triticum aestivum)
Anowarul I Bokshi, Daniel KY Tan, Charlie Warren, Urrisa HC Ng, Yifeng Lyu and Richard MTrethowan

Quantifying progress through grain development in wheat and barley using spike moisture content
Celestina C, Bloomfield MT, Stefanova K and Hunt JR

The influence of growing-season rainfall and pre-season stored soil moisture on wheat yield benefits from long fallows in Western Australia
Chen C, Fletcher A, Ota N, Oliver Y and Lawes R

Modelling the interaction between nitrogen and temperature during the critical period of yield in wheat
C.Mariano Cossani, D. Thomas, P. Hayman, and V.O. Sadras

Water use efficiency is improved by storing more water before planting
Andrew Erbacher, Lindsay Bell, Jayne Gentry, David Lawrence, Jon Baird, Mat Dunn, Darren Aisthorpe and Greg Brooke

Multi-environment trial analysis: Frost sterility in wheat and barley under Australian frost-prone regions
Ferrante A, Cullis BR, Able JA

Estimating the real cost of frost: A field-based frost control treatment using a diesel heater to stop freezing damage
Brenton Leske and Ben Biddulph

Heat-risk assessment for winter wheat using long-term weather data
Min Li, Yating Wang, Youhong Song

Lack of Terminal Water or Heat Stress facilitates Later Optimal Flowering Periods for Barley in Australia
Ke Liu, Matthew Tom Harrison

Targeted amelioration of constraints in deep sands to maximise crop water use
Therese McBeath, Murray Unkovich, Nigel Wilhelm, Melisa Fraser, Michael Moodie, Sam Trengove, Jack Desbiolles, Chris Saunders, Rachael Whitworth, Rodrigo da Silva, Rick Llewellyn, Lynne Macdonald

Development of a barley head loss susceptibility index for Southern Australia
Melissa McCallum, Matthew Tucker, and Kenton Porker

Designing a Mobile Free-Air Temperature Extreme (FATE) System to Impose Heat Shocks on Crops in the Field
Mahabubur Mollah, Glenn Fitzgerald and Bruce A. Kimball

Chickpea response to sowing date and water treatment in southern NSW
Aaron Preston, Lancelot Maphosa, Iain Hume, Tony Napier and Mark Richards

Chasing water: Increasing sowing opportunity with small changes to sowing depth across the low and medium rainfall zones of Western Australia
Sarah Rich, Yvette Oliver, Jonathan Richetti and Roger Lawes

A novel approach for sorghum canopy management in northern NSW
Loretta Serafin, Mark Hellyer, Paul Murphy and Delphi Ramsden

Late, deep root development varies between wheat cultivars subjected to terminal water stress
Shazadi K, Chenu K and Christopher JT

Effect of low temperature levels on the developmental characteristics of wheat spikelets
Hui Su, Ray Rose and Youhong Song

An assessment of the temporal sampling frequency of canopy temperature for irrigation scheduling
Humaira Sultana, Rose Brodrick, Quanxi Shao, Huidong Jin, Simon Allen, Hizbullah Jamali, Christopher Nunn, David Deery, Bangyou Zheng, Akram Hameed, Roy Zandona, Gordon McLachlan, Tracey May

Analysis of precipitation during maize growth period in Huaibei Plain, China
Weiwei Sun, Zhiwei Wang, Brian Collins and Youhomg Song

Spatial assessment of the interactions between subsoil constraints, soil available water capacity, and potential crop yields Mikaela J. Tilse, Patrick Filippi, Thomas F. A. Bishop

A field-based technique for screening heat tolerance of wheat lines differing in maturity at matched developmental phases
Najeeb Ullah, Jack Christopher, Troy Frederiks, Karine Chenu

System’s perspectives on the relationship between soil water dynamics and the efficacy of stubble and fertiliser management
Verburg K, McBeath TM, Armstrong RD, Sandral GA and Kirkegaard JK

Transformational agronomy by growing summer crops in winter: Predicting soil temperatures using outputs from crop and climate models
Linden Wells, Peter de Voil, Daniel Rodriguez

Can stay-green help to increase heat tolerance in wheat?
Muhammad Yahya, Najeeb Ullah, Jack Christopher and Karine Chenu