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Plant Breeding, 04 Jun 2024
Re-imagining heat tolerance traits in wheat – part 2
New ways to select for heat tolerance in wheat are under development in four new projects that are mining wheat’s heat-responsive biochemical processes using advanced phenotyping technology
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Plant Breeding, 14 May 2024
Wheat varieties of the future edging closer
The Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia is an industry initiative established to increase public awareness of, and encourage informed debate and decision-making about, gene technology. This edition of Gene scene reports on the latest developments in wheat breeding.
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Plant Breeding, 26 Apr 2024
Re-imagining heat tolerance traits in wheat
New ways to select for heat tolerance in wheat are under development in four new projects that are mining wheat’s heat-responsive biochemical processes using advanced phenotyping technology
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Plant Breeding, 19 Apr 2024
Maximising yield – by the numbers
At a recent GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops field day, crop ecologist Professor Victor Sadras spoke about the critical period, and its role in grain production. Professor Sadras says that yield is a function of grain number, and that grain number is defined in a species-specific critical window.
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Plant Breeding, 11 Mar 2024
Gene technology comes into play on New Zealand pastures
AgResearch in New Zealand is developing pasture research programs using gene technology – including gene editing – that aim to increase productivity, improve animal health and deliver environmental benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to the modified white clover bred and grown in contained conditions in New Zealand, three years of field trials have been completed in the US.
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Plant Breeding, 01 Mar 2024
Researchers gain access to genetic resources to speed up oat, lupin breeding
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has announced a strategic partnership with Traitomic, a Denmark-based crop trait development company, to revolutionize the breeding of oat and lupin varieties for Australian grain growers. This collaboration aims to enhance the availability of novel grain crop diversity, knowledge about this diversity, and methods for integrating it into elite crop varieties, thereby accelerating the development of new, improved varieties. Through the GRDC-Traitomic partnership, Australian breeders and pre-breeders will gain unprecedented access to extensive genetic libraries of unique genetic variants for oats and lupins, enabling the rapid identification of genes driving essential crop traits such as disease resistance and drought tolerance.
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Plant Breeding, 16 Jan 2024
National project to advance Australian virus management
From evaluating new strains of virus to assessing the annual impact on crops, the latest national virus program has an extensive scope of work, ultimately focused on helping growers to improve yields and profitability. GRDC has invested $12 million in a five-year national research project to help growers better prevent and manage virus infections in their crops.
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Plant Breeding, 16 Nov 2023
Resistant regions mapped in RLN research
Wild chickpea relatives collected from south-east Türkiye (Turkey) are helping researchers develop new root lesion nematode-resistant chickpea varieties.
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Plant Breeding, 24 Oct 2023
Europe looks to update gene editing regulations
The Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia is an industry initiative established to increase public awareness of, and encourage informed debate and decision-making about, gene technology. The initiative is supported by a number of agricultural sectors and organisations all working to ensure the Australian farming sector can appropriately access and adopt this technology for the benefit of Australian agriculture.
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Plant Breeding, 20 Oct 2023
Throwing the kitchen sink at Fusarium crown rot disease
A strategy that encompasses genetics, breeding, agronomic management and seed treatment technologies is being used to claw back yield losses due to Fusarium crown rot disease in wheat