Tests offered and how to submit a test
NEW!! WE CAN TEST ANY HERBICIDE PRODUCT, RATE, MIXTURE COMBINATION, OR SEQUENCE, eg. Paraquat + Boxer Gold.
Resistance Quick-Testing is underway for the 2023 season. Here is the latest info.
Sampling plants:
How many plants: For 3-leaf to 3-5 tillers we need 20 plants per herbicide test. Therefore for a 4-herbicide test 100 plants (included 20 for untreated). For larger plants we require fewer because we split tillers of the same plant, transplant the into numerous pots and spray with your chosen herbicides.
Rotting: Under no circumstance should the leaves be wet to avoid rotting. This includes sending plants with mud.
Removing from the paddock: Sampling tillering plants from soil that is not muddy: pull/dig out plants (all we need is half inch of root), keep out of direct sunlight and cool. Shake of any excess soil. No need to wash roots. Sampling tillering plants from muddy soil: ‘as above’ with the exception wash off mud and blot the plant dry before sending. Sampling small seedlings. Dig out to ensure some roots remain. Keep plants cool, out of direct sunlight.
Preparing for postage: If sending plants the same or next day, keep them cool. When ready to send, place in a ziplock bag and squeeze out air. Send by express post. Don’t forget to sign the dangerous goods declaration so air travel is permitted where relevant. If collecting later in the week or on the weekend, keep the plants cool and out of sunlight. They can be dug out with soil (keep in a bucket) to keep them healthier and prior to packaging on Sunday or Monday, shake the soil off at this stage.
Preparing for postage: Send the plants to
Plant Science Consulting
22 Linley Avenue
Prospect SA 5082
Pricing: Remains the same as the seed-testing price.
If you have any questions regarding the test or if you do not receive the attachments, please notify me or Sam Kleemann
Peter: 0400 66 44 60
Sam: 0418 256 475
Welcome
Specialising in herbicide resistance testing
Plant Science Consulting (PSC) is an Adelaide based company specialising in Herbicide Resistance Testing. The company was founded by Dr Peter Boutsalis who has been involved in Herbicide Resistance for over 25 years, both in Australia and overseas. PSC offers a wide range of tests including herbicide resistance testing of weeds as seeds & plants (Quick-Test). The Quick-Test was developed by Dr P. Boutsalis in the late 1990’s. He now works as an independent agricultural consultant and for The University of Adelaide researching herbicide resistance.
How the process works
Quick, Simple & Easy
Register your samples online and obtain a unique registration ID number. Write this ID number on your sample bag. Post your samples to Plant Science Consulting. Once the testing is completed, the report will be emailed to you along with a tax invoice with payment details. It couldn’t be any easier.
To register using a paper brochure click here
Please note that there is a $25 incl GST fee for transferring the information from the paper copy into the electronic site.
This fee will be included in the final tax invoice.
A resistance quick test is very useful on assessing the level of herbicide resistance in a particular weed population, and helps to develop chemical strategies and other weed control methods in current and subsequent years.
Grant Johnson, Agronomist
J & J Cunningham Agri Services
Cooke Plains SA
Herbicide resistance testing can make growers tens of thousands of dollars a year through improved herbicide and rotation choice.
Bill Long
Ag Consulting & Co,
Ardossan, SA
“Peter’s Syngenta Herbicide Resistance QUICK-TEST has been a very worthwhile service to growers we advise. It enables us to find out the resistance spectrum of plants surviving herbicides in the field and to have results to act on that season. Peter has also been a great help to the Hart Fieldsite group assisting with ryegrass trials and speaking on ryegrass control to growers and advisers at our many field days in the past two years”
Allan Mayfield
Clare, South Australia
Agronomic consultant and past research coordinator of the Hart Fieldsite Group
I find that being able to get quick results on the resistant status of weeds allows us to make a suitable salvage option and start to plan for next years control options.
Terry Edis
Elders, Ariah Park, NSW
Peter, very happy with the Quick-Test reports, quick turn around, easy to understand and great info to be able to present to growers. Gives us a great advantage to understand what is happening in the pdk during the year and make decisions for future cropping and chemical use. Great service many thanks.
Steve Dickson
Agvise Services P/L, Inverleigh, Vic
Herbicide resistant testing has become an important part of managing resistance on our property, we use it both strategically (determining which paddocks to remove from cropping) and tactically (deciding on what herbicide groups will work in specific paddocks we suspect of having resistance).
Dr Grant Roberts
Stradbrooke Park, Clare SA
Thankyou for the Quick Test results. We suspected it had some resistance to glyphosate – now it is confirmed, with an indication to the degree of resistance. We now have the ability to choose other herbicides and non-herbicide tactics to reduce, and hopefully kill the population.
Damien & Lauren Philp
Manoora, SA
