Brendan Kupke
Biography
Brendan started in the SARDI Agronomy group as a graduate grains research intern in 2019 after completing a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences with Honours at The University of Adelaide.
His research has been across a diverse range of agronomy projects, with a focus on time of sowing, phenology, optimal flowering periods and abiotic stress, mainly in cereal crops. He has been project lead on two SAGIT industry-funded projects which linked both field trials and APSIM crop modelling to produce applied outputs for South Australian farmers.
Currently, he leads a statewide barley biomass project with multiple regional trials to understand graze and grain opportunities with new barley phenologies and architecture types across different growing seasons in the low, medium and high rainfall zones in South Australia.
Collaborating with several different research organisations including government, university and farmer groups has helped Brendan in developing outputs to improve the productivity and sustainability cropping for South Australian farmers.
Research interests
- The interaction of Genetics x Environment x Management on crop productivity
- Understanding the role of phenology and time of sowing on flowering time and grain yield
- Management strategies for adaption to variable growing seasons and future climate change
- Frost mitigation in cereal crops
- Grain and grazing for increased profitability and productivity
Qualifications
BAgSci (Honours, 1st class), 2020, University of Adelaide
Professional affiliations
- Affiliate Associate Lecturer in School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide
- Associate Lecturer in College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
Publications
- Manipulation of Barley Development and Flowering Time by Exogenous Application of Plant Growth Regulators. Frontiers in Plant Science
- Characterising the optimal flowering period for the Murray Plains. 2024 EP Farming Systems Summary
- Novel agronomy strategies for reducing the yield decline from delayed emergence. 2021 EP Farming Systems Summary
- Manipulation of cereal crop development by plant hormones. 2022 Australian Agronomy Conference
