Improving crops and pastures for targeted environments

Can grain protein contents be increased without sacrificing grain yields in wheat?
Senthold Asseng and Stephen Milroy

Melilotus siculus (syn messanensis) is constrained by a lack of suitable rhizobia
Nigel Charman, Ross Ballard and Andrew Craig

Austrodanthonia caespitosa shows potential as a new pasture grass for the low rainfall wheatbelt
Brian Dear^1,4, Belinda Hackney^1,4, Richard Hayes^1,4 , Cathy Waters^2,4 and Peter Jessop^3,4

Production and persistence of a winter-active chicory cultivar in southern NSW
Richard Hayes, Brian Dear, Guangdi Li and Craig Lihou

Summer dormancy increases persistence of perennial grasses in a wheatbelt environment
Richard Hayes^1,2, Brian Dear^1,2, Guangdi Li^1,2, J.M. Virgona^1,2, Mark Conyers¹ and Belinda Hackney^1,2

Perennial herbs – can they make a contribution in high rainfall dairy pastures?
Joe Jacobs and Graeme Ward

The effect of dairy effluent on dry matter yields and nutritive characteristics of summer active regrowth forage crops
Joe Jacobs and Graeme Ward

Trifolium dasyurum L. (Eastern star clover): Exploiting a novel pasture species for innovative strategies to control weed seed banks.
Angelo Loi¹, Bradley Nutt¹ and Clinton Revell¹²

Matching agronomic practices with improved cultivars to expand lentil production in Australia
Larn McMurray¹, Michael Materne², Kerry Regan³, Geoff Dean⁴, Peter Matthews⁵ and Jason Brand²

Predicting mixed stand alfalfa fibre content in New York State
David Parsons¹ and Jerome H. Cherney¹

Waterlogging tolerance of 12 perennial forage legumes from the Lotus genus
Daniel Real¹, Timothy Colmer^1,2, Jonathan Warden¹ and Graeme Sandral^{1, 3}

Interspecific hybrid, Zea mays L. x Tripsacum dactyloides L., a new fodder crop with large silage biomass production under abiotic stresses
Yuri Shavrukov¹, Victor Sokolov², Peter Langridge¹ and Mark Tester¹

Understanding productivity decline in subterranean clover-based pastures in south-western Australia
Timothy Scanlon¹, Len Wade¹, Megan Ryan¹

Deep incorporation of organic matter improves wheat growth on a Sodosol with dense subsoil
JS Gill, Peter Sale and Caixian Tang

Quantifying safflower development using environmental parameters
Nick Wachsmann¹, Rob Norton¹ and David Jochinke²

• Citation: "Groundbreaking Stuff". Edited by Neil Turner and Tina Acuna. Proceedings of the 13th Australian Agronomy Conference. 10-14 September 2006 Perth, Western Australia.