Endemic Pulse Diseases

The 2026 disease guides for Victoria provide Victorian growers and advisers with current information on field crop diseases in cereals and pulses, including disease management advice, resistance ratings and fungicide resistance considerations for the coming season.  Due to the below average rainfall during 2025, there is a reduced potential for disease to […]

Season update – 2025 Turnip yellows virus (TuYV) has been reported in irrigated canola crops in North Central Victoria during June 2025. Over the past weeks, Agriculture Victoria staff have tested plant samples from six irrigated canola crops from the region, and high incidences of TuYV (79-100%) were detected. The […]

View the latest Blackspot Manager forecast for Victoria. Field Pea Blackspot Manager is a forecasting model for ascochyta blight (synonym: blackspot) of field peas. It can be used by agronomists and growers to help identify the best balance between early sowing and potential yield loss from ascochyta blight, or to […]

CropAlerts provide timely information for crop diseases to Victorian growers and agronomists. Alerts are sent out via email during the cropping season. To receive these alerts please contact [email protected] Current and historical CropAlerts can be accessed on this page. CropAlerts 2025   2024   2023   2022   2021   […]

To protect pulses, there are several registered fungicides available with varying efficacy and use patterns. When selecting products, it is important to consider products within an integrated disease management (IDM) strategy (see below), the potential of the disease-causing pathogen to develop fungicide resistance, and the overall crop profitability. Remember that […]

The Victorian pulse and cereal disease guides provide the latest information on disease management and disease resistance ratings. 2023 Disease Management – Pulses There will be a high risk of disease carryover into the 2023 season from infected seed and stubble of crops that had high disease levels in 2022. […]

The 2022 growing season has provided a range of challenges for growers and these will continue to have an impact into 2023. Crops that have had severe disease infections are likely to have grain quality impacts and carry disease inoculum into the next cropping season. Considerations for harvest and grain […]

Sclerotinia white mould (SWM) is a damaging disease that can infect many pulse crops including lentil, chickpea, faba bean, vetch, field pea and lupin. It can also affect canola, pasture legumes and many weeds. This disease poses its greatest risk during seasons with prolonged damp conditions. Sclerotinia white mould has […]

  In this video Dr Joshua Fanning describes how the lentil botrytis grey mould nursery in Horsham helps growers manage the disease and the impact that variety ratings can have. This video was recorded in the field during November 2020. Ratings are up to date as of April 2021. All […]

  In this video, Dr. Joshua Fanning describes the methods that have been used in Horsham to develop high throughput field phenotyping of chickpea plants for ascochyta blight resistance. This video was filmed during November 2020. All information was accurate at the time of recording. Transcript – Improving Field Screening Methods […]

The following papers were presented at the GRDC Updates in Bendigo in February 2021. This article includes a summary of key points from each paper, click on the title to find the full text. Cereal disease update 2021 Authors: Mark McLean, Grant Hollaway and Hari Dadu (Agriculture Victoria), Robert Park […]

Welcome to the first episode of the new Field Crop Diseases Victoria podcast series. We hope you enjoy. In episode one, Jemma Pearl caught up with Steve Marcroft, Grant Hollaway and Josh Fanning to talk about disease in 2020 and their thoughts on what growers should be thinking about for […]