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  • Gene technology comes into play on New Zealand pastures
    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.

  • Researchers gain access to genetic resources to speed up oat, lupin breeding
    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.

  • National project to advance Australian virus management
    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.

  • Resistant regions mapped in RLN research
    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.

  • Europe looks to update gene editing regulations
    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.

  • Throwing the kitchen sink at Fusarium crown rot disease
    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

  • Synchrotron looks deep into wheat’s nutritional value
    Plant Breeding, 17 Oct 2023
    Synchrotron looks deep into wheat’s nutritional value

    GRDC is investing in research to increase understanding and research capacity for developing agronomic methods that can lead to the production of grains with higher nutritional benefit. Using instruments at the X-ray fluorescence microscopy beamline, crop scientists can investigate the concentrations and distribution of micronutrients accumulated in dozens of grain samples in a relatively short timeframe.

  • GM and gene-edited grass research program expanded
    Plant Breeding, 05 Sep 2023
    GM and gene-edited grass research program expanded

    AgResearch, one of seven Crown Research Institutes in New Zealand, has announced it is expanding its genetically modified and gene-edited grasses research and development program. Field trials of the GM ryegrass have been undertaken in the United States, due to the ban on GM crop commercialisation in New Zealand.

  • Improved canola heat tolerance observed in field trials
    Plant Breeding, 20 Jun 2023
    Improved canola heat tolerance observed in field trials

    Heat tolerance traits are undergoing extensive field trials and genetic analysis following their identification in newly resynthesised canola material that contains novel genetic diversity.

  • Scientists crack one of cropping’s most sought-after genetic secrets
    Plant Breeding, 27 Apr 2023
    Scientists crack one of cropping’s most sought-after genetic secrets

    By studying plants that can withstand dry environments, scientists at the University of Queensland have identified some of the genes responsible for one of the most important drought adaption traits in cereal crops – the ‘stay-green’ trait

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