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T[0]="New soybean for Queensland";

A[0]="By ... Editor";

Dn[0]="20060222";

Dt[0]="Wednesday 22 February 2006";

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B1[0]="      Queensland sugarcane farmers have been given a valuable rotational crop, thanks to a new CSIRO Plant Industry-bred soybean variety..... ";

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S1[0]="&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Queensland sugarcane farmers have been given a valuable rotational crop, thanks to a new CSIRO Plant Industry-bred soybean variety.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ";

S2[0]=" A new CSIRO Plant Industry-bred soybean variety, 'Stuart', will give Queensland sugarcane farmers a valuable rotational crop.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Soybean crops can both break ";

S3[0]=" the disease cycle and add nitrogen to the soil for following crops.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; It can also be sown as either a grain or ";

S4[0]=" green manure crop.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Developed by CSIRO Plant Industry's Dr Andrew James, Stuart is broadly adapted to planting in both the wet and ";

S5[0]=" dry season in the tropics and from South East Queensland through to North Queensland.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'Stuart is particularly useful in these areas because ";

S6[0]=" of its nematode resistance,' Dr James says.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'It is much more resistant to most root nematodes than other soybean varieties.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; ";

S7[0]=" &nbsp; 'It also has resistance to rusts, bacterial pustule, bacterial blight, downy mildew and purple seed stain,' Dr James says.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'No symptoms ";

S8[0]=" of virus have been noted in Stuart crops or seed.' The new variety also has a light-coloured hilum (a mark on the grain where it ";

S9[0]=" joins the plant), making its grain suitable for some human consumption markets.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dr Russell Muchow, Executive Director of the Sugar Research and ";

S10[0]=" Development Corporation (SRDC), says that the SRDC was pleased to support the research which led to the release of Stuart.<BR> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 'Including soybean ";

S11[0]=" in sugarcane farming systems leads to increased cane productivity and industry profitability,' Dr Muchow says... ";