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