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Research Projects

SARDI's Plant and Soil Health and Entomology research projects aim to deliver a multitude of outcomes:

  • Plant disease management across all plant industries
  • Specific discipline expertise- mycology, nematology, Rhizobium, microbiology
  • Development and delivery of molecular diagnostics
  • Unique capability to implement DNA diagnostics in a broad range of environmental samples including soil, seed, sediments.
  • Provision of information for phytosanitary requirements for market access
  • Development and delivery of bio-inoculants
  • Provision of services to breeding programs-pathology and nematology screening
  • Provision of services to plant industries-plant diagnostics, testing services for both disease risk assessment and to meet phytosanitary requirements
  • Acquisition, analysis and interpretation of precision agriculture data for spatial management of diseases and weeds
  • Provision of independent information and services
  • Biosecurity & market access
  •  Sustainable biosystems (agricultural and natural ecosystems)
  •  Molecular entomology