| Project title |
Coordinator |
Contributors |
Funding |
Duration |
| General viticulture |
Optimising eradication strategies for exotic plant pathogen incursions in perennial crops |
Dr Mark Sosnowski, Dr Bob Emmett |
SARDI-Adelaide, Vic DPI-Mildura and Knoxfield, NT DBIRD Darwin |
CRCNPB, SARDI, Vic DPI, NT DBIRD |
2006-2010 |
| Revision of Grape Production Series No. 1 Diseases and Pests |
Peter Magarey |
SARDI-Loxton, Vic DPI |
SARDI |
2005-2009 |
| Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Field Guide to Diseases, Pests and Disorders of Grapes |
Peter Magarey |
SARDI-Loxton, Vic DPI |
SARDI |
2005-2009 |
CropWatch Online: Viticultural information when you need it |
Peter Magarey, Tim Smythe |
SARDI-Loxton, RWIDC, McLaren Vale Wine Grape Tourism, SAMRIC |
SARDI, RWIDC, McLaren Vale Wine Grape Tourism |
Ongoing |
Downy Mildew Action Plan |
Peter Magarey, Tim Smythe |
SARDI-Loxton, RWIDC |
SARDI, RWIDC |
Ongoing |
Cropwatch SA – Disease, pest and viticultural information service |
Tim Smythe |
RWIDC, SARDI-Loxton, Fruit Doctors, Western Electronic Design |
Commercial |
Ongoing |
| GA and reproductive development |
Dr Steve Swain |
CSIRO-Merbein, LTU |
LTU, CSIRO |
Ongoing |
| Multi-head, air assisted sprayers: design, prototype manufacture, evaluation and commercialisation |
Geoff Furness |
SARDI-Loxton, Croplands Spraying Equipment Pty Ltd, Bolly Products Pty Ltd, John Packer Design, Aspiration Holdings Ltd New Zealand |
Commercial and royalty income |
Ongoing |
| Distance/unit canopy row spray calibration |
Geoff Furness |
SARDI-Loxton, commercial |
Commercial |
Ongoing |
| Dried grapes |
Development of rain tolerant dried grape varieties |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein |
HAL |
2004-2009 |
Fruit set and bunch shatter in Sunmuscat |
Dr Davinder Singh |
CSIRO-Merbein |
HAL |
2005-2008 |
Cordon bunch removal for trellis dried grapes |
Dr Mark Downey |
Vic DPI-Mildura |
HAL |
2005-2008 |
Rootstock breeding and development for Australian dried grapes |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein, Vic DPI-Rutherglen |
HAL |
2006-2011 |
| Table grapes |
Causes and prevention of table grape berry collapse |
Dr Davinder Singh |
CSIRO-Merbein, Vic DPI-Mildura |
HAL, Vic DPI |
2003-2009 |
Unique table grapes for the 21st Century |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein, QDPI&F, WADA, NTDPI |
HAL |
2004-2009 |
| Wine grapes |
Identification and detection of key wine flavour compounds in grapes |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein and Adelaide |
GWRDC, CSIRO Food Futures Flagship |
2003-2009 |
Optimisation of canopy function |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein, part of GWRDC Soil and Water Initiative |
GWRDC, CSIRO |
2005-2010 |
| Unique Australian winegrapes |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein, Wine companies |
CSIRO |
2007-2010 |
| Rootstock breeding and development for Australian wine grapes |
Peter Clingeleffer |
CSIRO-Merbein, Vic DPI-Rutherglen |
GWRDC |
2006-2011 |
| Grape composition and wine quality from salt excluding rootstocks and characterisation of the chloride exclusion mechanism |
Dr Rob Walker |
CSIRO-Merbein, ACPFG, SARDI |
GWRDC |
2007-2010 |
Grapevine rootstocks for use in warm inland regions |
Phil Nicholas |
SARDI-Loxton |
SARDI |
2005-2008 |
Viticultural management of grape tannin and anthocyanin levels to achieve desired wine quality specifications |
Dr Mark Downey |
Vic DPI-Mildura, AWRI, UA Waite Campus, UC Davis, WSU Prosser |
GWRDC, Vic DPI |
2005-2010 |
Distribution, life cycle and biological control of soft scale insects in Australian vineyards
|
Dr Greg Buchanan,
Dr Ary Hoffman,
Adrian Rakimov (PhD student) |
Vic DPI-Mildura, University of Melbourne Parkville |
Vic DPI, ARC Linkage Grant, GWRDC |
2004-2008 |
| GrapeCheque |
Jeff Milne |
Vic DPI-Mildura, Bendigo, Tatura, Box Hill, Rutherglen |
Vic DPI |
1997-2008 |
| Review of and packaging of current viticultural nutritional management information for Australia's major wine grape varieties |
Dr Mark Downey |
Vic DPI-Mildura and Tatura (Soil and Water), SRHS, Wine companies |
GWRDC, Vic DPI |
2006-2008 |
| A strategic review: the first step in establishing low input viticulture regimes...rationalising powdery mildew control in Riverland vineyards |
Tim Smythe |
RWIDC, CCW, SARDI-Loxton, Vic DPI-Mildura |
GWRDC RITA |
2007-2008 |
