| Crop Physiology |
| Investigating variety and trash interactions. |
| Resource use efficiency of biomass genotypes. |
| Modelling world-wide GXE interaction. |
| Modeling of chemical ripener responses. |
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| Crop husbandry: Soil management, plant nutrition, trash management, chemical ripeners |
| Modelling nitrogen dynamics in sugarcane cropping systems. |
| Potassium in sugarcane production: requirements and interactions with nitrogen and silicon. |
| Nitrogen nutrition of sugarcane: using soil tests to predict nitrogen contributions from the soil organic matter. |
| Identifying genotype by nitrogen use efficiency interactions in sugarcane for commercial application. |
| Measuring volatilisation losses of conventional and new nitrogen fertilizers. |
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| Information systems |
| Updates to the Canegro Sugarcane Model. |
| Farm-level water allocation decision support program based on crop response to deficit irrigation. |
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| Soil Sustainability & Diversification |
| Long-term effects of CMS on soil quality. |
| Use of intercropping to diversify sugarcane farming systems and maximize ecological benefit. |
| Critical evaluation of a sugarcane-soybean crop rotation system in the South African sugar industry. |
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| Climate Change |
| Measuring and modelling greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane cropping systems in South Africa? |
| Assessing some impacts of projected climate change scenarios on the South African sugarcane industry. |
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| Technology Development |
| Management practices to ameliorate top and subsoil acidity. |
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| Long Term Projects |
| Ripener x Varieties Evaluation Project |
| Burning and Trashing Long Term Project |