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Control options for blue lupin investigated

BLUE lupin may look appealing with its brightly-coloured flower, but it certainly doesn’t hold much excitement for many growers of grain lupin crops in Western Australia.

Macey Hill
 A GRDC project will hopefully shed some light on possible control options for blue lupins in WA. Picture courtesy DPIRD.

A GRDC project will hopefully shed some light on possible control options for blue lupins in WA. Picture courtesy DPIRD.

Also known as sandplain lupin, blue lupin (Lupinus cosentinii) has hard seeds that persist in the soil and germinate to compete with narrow-leaf and white lupin crops, particularly in the Geraldton, WA...

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