In this podcast, Cindy Benjamin catches up with Charles Sturt University (CSU) Professor Leslie Weston to get the next instalment on their work. You can read the insight and listen to the podcast on Leslie and her team's earlier work here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/crops-are-doin-it-for-themselves/The last podcast focused on cereals, while this one looks at the mechanisms at play in canola.Leslie led a large project at CSU alongside Associate Professor Dr Chris Preston at The University of Adelaide, to investigate several aspects of crop competition.PhD candidate James Mwendwa and the project team conducted field trials at Wagga Wagga comparing the weed-suppressive effect of six hybrid and one open-pollinated canola cultivars, both in-crop and post-harvest, in 2014.The experiment was repeated in 2015, a drier year with much lower weed pressure, using the same cultivars plus two new cultivars. In 2015 and 2016, another site at Condobolin was added to test the same cultivars in a lower rainfall environment.Learn more from taking a listen to the podcast with Leslie below. You can also read the AHRI insight on this work here: https://ahri.uwa.edu.au/revealing-canolas-super-powers/
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