Curyo VIC trials

To understand the effects of row spacing and row direction on plant growth, grain yield and pod drop of lentil varieties differeing in architecture and tolerance to pod drop.

To report on chickpea sowing time x row space x plant density at Curyo,Victoria.

To evaluate potential new foliar fungicide spray strategies and varieties for management of aschochyta blight in chickpeas. 

To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application. 

To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application.

• To investigate the suitability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines differing in flowering
  and maturity characteristics for crop-topping/desiccation.

• To investigate the suitability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines differing in flowering
  and maturity characteristics for crop-topping/desiccation.

• To investigate the suitability of a range of field pea varieties differing in flowering and maturity
  characteristics for crop-topping/desiccation.

• To investigate the suitability of a range of lentil varieties differing in flowering and maturity
  characteristics for crop-topping/desiccation.

• To compare the growth, grain yield of potential new blue field varieties.

To evaluate the performance of a range of faba bean varieties and breeding lines with traits for adaptation to low rainfall zones. 

To evaluate the performance of faba bean varieties and breeding lines with drought tolerant traits in low rainfall environments.

To compare the level of herbicide tolerance in PBA Bendoc (an imidazoline tolerant faba bean variety) against the newly released line PBA Amberley (tested as AF11023) to pre and post emergent applications of GpC at various rates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of new herbicide tolerant lentil varieties to a range of
  Group B herbicides.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of new herbicide tolerant lentil varieties to a range of Group B herbicides.

• To understand the genetic control in lentils relating to tolerance to the range of sulfonyl urea herbicides.

• To compare the growth, grain yield and gross margins of recently released field pea varieties with historical varieties.

To investigate the impact of seed size in faba beans on the growth, grain yield and seed quality.

To investigate the stability of the seed size trait in PBA HallmarkXT across generations.

To report on lentil sowing time x row space x plant density at Curyo,Victoria.

To evaluate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines in the low rainfall zone. 
 

To investigate the tolerance of a new genotype ‘LGPC’ to post emergent application of various Group C herbicides and Group C & F mixes in comparison with PBA Jumbo2. 
 

To compare the level of herbicide tolerance in SP1333 (a new genotype with improved tolerance to Group C herbicides) against PBA Hallmark XT to pre- and post-emergent applications of ‘Gp C’ at various rates. 

To investigate the response of lentil to application of microbial inoculants and micro and macro nutrients across a sandhill and swale soil at Ouyen and a sandy loam at Curyo.

To investigate the implications of novel herbicide toerance traits in field pea on the management of vetch.

To investigate the implications of novel herbicide toerance traits in lentil on the management of vetch.

To investigate the response of new faba bean varieties and genotypes to sowing dates.

To investigate the response of new lentil varieties and genotypes to sowing dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of faba bean varieties to varying row spacing.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of kabuli chickpea varieties to sowing date.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and breeding lines to wider row
  spacing’s sown inter-row in to standing stubble compared with conventional cropping systems
  (narrow row spacing with slashed stubble).
• The interaction sowing times is also compared.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of field pea varieties and breeding lines to wider row
  spacing’s sown inter-row in to standing stubble compared with conventional cropping systems
  (narrow row spacing with slashed stubble).
• The interaction sowing times is also compared.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines to wider row
  spacing’s sown inter-row in to standing stubble compared with conventional cropping systems
  (narrow row spacing with slashed stubble).
• The interaction sowing times is also compared.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of field pea varieties to varying sowing dates, crop
  topping and disease control.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing
  dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing
  dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of field pea varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates.

• To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates.

To evaluate time of sowing and disease management programs on the establishment, biomass development and grain yield of different vetch in comparison with faba bean and field pea.