Listed here are books and book chapters written or contributed to by our staff. These works can be monographs in any format, printed works, ebooks or ibooks.
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Agronomic Options for Profitable Rice-based Farming System in Northern Australia
Siva Sivapalan
Minimum air temperatures less than 15°C had biggest impact on varietal performance. Cold damage during the months of June and July warrants selection of varieties with cold tolerance for this environment, especially for the aerobic rice system. Ponded water has 4-8°C advantage over the air ... Read more
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Grain production and consumption in Oceania: Australia and Pacific countries
C W. Wrigley and Robert J. French
Many of the grains of economic significance are not native to Oceania, which includes the many small islands in the South Pacific, plus Australia and New Zealand. So the popular grain species have been introduced only in the past two centuries or so. Most of ... Read more
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Water Balance of Flooded Rice in the Tropics
Siva Sivapalan
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA staff member authored "Water Balance of Flooded Rice in the Tropics" in the publication Irrigation and Drainage - Sustainable Strategies and Systems’, edited by Muhammad Salik Javaid, published by INTECH, May 2015
Chapter Summary: Excess groundwater recharge rates under ... Read more
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Origin of Fungicide-Resistant Barley Powdery Mildew in Western Australia: Lessons to Be Learned
Madeline Ann Tucker, Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz, Kithsiri Jayasena, and Richard P. Oliver
The risk of fungicide resistance is greatest with pathogens with short dormant periods, with both sexual and asexual reproduction cycles, with large population sizes and when fungicides of a single mode of action (MOA) are repeatedly used. Most of the barley growing area in Western ... Read more
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In vitro culture for doubled haploids: tools for molecular breeding
Sue Broughton, Parminder K. Sidhu, and Philip A. Davies
Doubled haploid (DH) techniques using immature microspores or embryos rescued in vitro following interspecific hybridization are important tools for breeding wheat and barley and for generating populations for gene mapping purposes. Here, we describe methods being used for the successful production of spring wheat and ... Read more
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Shark Bay Snapper: Science, Policy, and the Decline and Recovery of a Marine Recreational Fishery
Joseph Christensen and Gary Jackson
Since the mid-1990s Shark Bay’s inner gulf snapper fishery has become one of the most intensively studied and better-understood marine recreational fisheries in Australia. It provides an important case-study of the impact that recreational fishing can have on highly targeted stocks, showing that recreational fishers, ... Read more
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Genomics: Plant Genetic Improvement
Dean Diepeveen, H Webster, and Rudi Appels
The integration of biotechnology concepts and technologies are now accepted as part of an overall strategy in plant breeding as the multidisciplinary approaches that characterize crop improvement enable a holistic systems approach to the study of expression and regulation of genes (and gene networks). Speedy ... Read more
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Chapter 4: The Impact of Climate Change on Exploited Lobster Stocks
Nick Caputi, Simon de Lestang, Stuart Frusher, and Richard A. Wahle
Climate change is predicted to significantly affect the world's oceans, with increases in water temperature, changes in ocean currents, pH levels and winds. This chapter highlights the vulnerability of lobster stocks to climate change due to their long larval life. Western and southern rock lobsters ... Read more
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Report card on sustainable natural resource use in agriculture : status and trend in the agricultural areas of the south-west of Western Australia
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
This report card summarises our current knowledge of the status and trend in the natural resource base in the agricultural areas of the south-west of Western Australia (WA) and provides a discussion of the implications for agricultural industries.
The condition of our natural resources is ... Read more
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Chapter 12: Biochar Application to Soil
Paul Blackwell, Glen Riethmuller, and Mike Collins
The application of biochar techniques to soil has rarely been investigated to date. The effectiveness of applications of composts, animal manures or mineral fertilizers are known to vary significantly whether they are incorporated or surface applied, banded or broadcast (Jarvis and Bolland, 1991; Gherardi and ... Read more
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Hydrological impacts and productivity interactions of integrated oil mallee farming systems: Landscape scale effects of dispersed mallee plantings
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation and Kim Brooksbank
Edited by Kim Brooksbank.
RIRDC Publication No. 11/161
RIRDC Project No. PRJ-000477
As outlined in the Western Australian Salinity Action Plan, and Salinity: A Situation Statement for Western Australia (Government of WA 1996a,b), plantings of mallees in the southern Australian agricultural zone will be driven ... Read more
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In response to need, a history of the Western Australian Department of Agriculture - 1894 to 2008
E N. Fitzpatrick
The department was not always such a significant organisation; it came from very small beginnings. However, it has been a major component of the engine which has produced an agricultural industry in a Mediterranean climate zone which is superior to all others operating in this ... Read more
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Supply chain performance of the Australian beef industry: Comparing the industry structure, Inter-firm relationships and knowledge systems of Western Australia and Queensland
Mohammad Nasir Uddin,; Nazrul Islam; and Mohammed Quaddus
The meat and livestock industry in Australia accounts for more than 45 per cent of Australia’s total value of agricultural production, within which beef is the largest industry in value terms (Nossal, Sheng and Zhao 2008). But the industry is experiencing a long-term decline in ... Read more
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Rangeland condition monitoring: A guide for pastoral lessees
David Warburton
This publication is a guide for the installation and assessment of monitoring sites, and reporting of rangeland condition trend required for the Rangeland Condition Monitoring (RCM) system of the Pastoral Lands Board of Western Australia (PLB).
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Stock-Recruitment-Environment relationship in a Portunus pelagicus fishery in Western Australia
Simon de Lestang, Lynda M. Bellchambers, Nick Caputi, Adrian Thomson, Matthew B. Pember, Danielle J. Johnston, and David C. Harris
The proceedings book based on the 25th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium is indispensable to crab scientists for their research, and to fishery managers to enhance management of crab populations. The book has 27 peer-reviewed papers by international crab fishery researchers, on the mechanisms of human-caused ... Read more
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Vegetable growing : a guide for home gardeners in Western Australia
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia
DAFWAs popular publication about vegetable growing for home gardeners.
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New look at old root-nodule bacteria: molecular techniques uncover novel isolates
Julie Kaye Ardley, Ronald J. Yates, K G. Nandasena, W G. Reeve, I J. Law, L Brau, Graham William O'Hara, and J G. Howieson
Exotic pasture legumes and their associated microsymbionts are important in providing biological nitrogen fixation in Australian agricultural systems. Southern African species of Lotononis from the Listia section can potentially provide sustainable agricultural productivity in systems affected by increasing dryland salinity and climate change. There are ... Read more
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Prospects for the future use of legumes
J G. Howieson, Ronald J. Yates, Kevin J. Foster, D Real, and R. B. Besier
As rhizobiologists or soil scientists, our reflex is to think of legumes in the primary role of providing fixed nitrogen to otherwise depauperate soils. However, other scientists see them as vital food or forage plants, as essential rotational species to improve cereal yields, or as ... Read more
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Feed on offer photo gallery : for annual pastures during the green period
Mandy (Catherine Amanda) Curnow and Lifetimewool (Australia)
Food on Offer, or FOO, is the amount of pasture available for sheep to eat. It is measured as dry matter per hectare, and then used to budget feed available and stocking rates for a given period.
FOO includes all green material above the ground ... Read more
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Chapter 15. Chinese jujube - a developing industry in Australia
Rachelle Johnstone, Fucheng Shan, and Alec McCarthy
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA staff member authored "Chinese jubjube - a developing industry in Australia" in the publication Chinese Dates: A Traditional Functional Food’, edited by Dongheng Liu, Xingqian Ye, Yueming Jiang, published by CRC Press, 2006
Chapter summary: Chinese jujube is regarded ... Read more
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Perennial pastures for Western Australia
Geoff Allan Moore, Paul Sanford, and Tim Wiley
The aim of this project was to identify potential new perennial legumes and grasses to complement lucerne in phase farming and to identify the role and potential for perennial grasses in Western Australia.
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LUPIN - Agronomy
Robert J. French
This article surveys the agronomy of the three most commonly grown lupin species - narrow-leafed lupin (NLL, Lupinus angustifolius L., also known as the Australian sweet lupin, or blue lupin);
- white lupin (WL, Lupinus albus L.); and
- yellow lupin (YL, Lupinus luteus L.).
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Reference soils of south-western Australia
W M. McArthur, Australian Society of Soil Science W.A. Branch., and Department of Agriculture and Food
First printed 1991, Reprinted 2004
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Saltland pastures in Australia, a practical guide
E G. Barrett-Lennard, A D. Bathgate, and C V. Malcolm
Farmer choices for saltland pastures, Salinity and options for saltland in Australia - Factors affecting plant growth in saltland - Establishing saltland pastures - Grazing value of saltland pastures - Productivity of saltland pastures - Assessing the economic value of saltland pastures - Common names ... Read more
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Physiological responses of cool-season grain legumes to drought in the low rainfall Mediterranean environment of South-Western Australia
Laurent Leport, N C. Turner, Robert J. French, B D. Thomson, and Kadambot H M Siddique
This paper discusses the effects of water deficits on the growth, yield, water relations and gas exchange of 6 species of grain legume, namely albus lupin (Lupinus albus cv. Kiev mutant), chickpea, faba bean (cv. Fiord), field pea (cv. Dundale), grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) and ... Read more
