Dylan Bruce
Biography
Dylan joined SARDI in 2018 after graduating with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide in 2016 and completing an internship in applied grains research with the Hart Field-Site Group in 2017.
Since joining SARDI Dylan has worked across a variety of different projects within the organisation, from the development, characterisation, and incorporation of novel herbicide tolerance traits in pulse crops, to working as part of the Southern Pulse Agronomy team providing management, delivery and extension of various agronomy experiments within the Mid-North High Rainfall Zone.
Currently Dylan is working as a member of the National Pulse Agronomy project (NaPA) team aiming to deliver appropriate variety by management packages that provide information about different profit/risk scenarios based on combinations of experimental data and crop modelling.
He’s also part of the Frost Resistance Integrating Omics (FRIO) team, aiming to determine whether metabolite and lipid profiling can be employed as a mechanism to select wheat germplasm with improved reproductive frost tolerance.
Research interests
- Matching crop phenology to changing environmental conditions
- Exploiting pulse indeterminacy in relation to environmental constraints to extend their growing season and maximise yield potential
Qualifications
B. Ag. Sci. (Honours, 1st class), 2016, University of Adelaide
Publications
- Bruce, D. et al. 2019. Management of early sown wheat: Development patterns of early sown wheat cultivars in the Mid-North of South Australia. 19th Australian Agronomy Conference, Wagga Wagga, NSW.
- Roberts, P. et al. 2022. Finding the right legume for your operation. Proceedings GRDC Grains Research Update, Adelaide, February 2022.
- Bruce, D. et al. 2022. Flipping the script on the 'failure bean' story: faba bean out-yielding in early sowing opportunities. 20th Australian Agronomy Conference, Toowoomba, QLD.
- Liu, H. et al. 2018. Genotype-dependent changes in the phenolic content of durum under water-deficit stress. Cereal Chem 95: 59-78.
- Croser, J. et al. 2021. Evidence for the Application of Emerging Technologies to Accelerate Crop Improvement - A Collaborative Pipeline to Introgress Herbicide Tolerance Into Chickpea. Front. Plant Sci. 12:779122.
