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Next generation plant breeding: integrating genomic selection and high throughput phenotyping to enhance genetic gain in sorghum and mungbeans logo
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Next generation plant breeding: integrating genomic selection and high throughput phenotyping to enhance genetic gain in sorghum and mungbeans

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

A range of new technologies including genomic selection and high throughput (HTP) phenotyping systems have the potential to dramatically improve the rates of genetic gain in crop breeding programs. This requires the development of integrated data management and analysis pipelines using high performance computing systems to generate genomic breeding values...

1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Post-doctoral Fellowship - Enhancing Genomic Prediction for Sorghum to deal with genotype-by-environment interactions for yield logo
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Post-doctoral Fellowship - Enhancing Genomic Prediction for Sorghum to deal with genotype-by-environment interactions for yield

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project will investigate the opportunity to develop more powerful genomic prediction methods that can better handle the effects of genotype-by-environment interactions using the sorghum crop growth model available within the APSIM platform. With enhanced genomic prediction capability that can better deal with the effects of genotype-by-environment interactions sorghum breeders...

1 Mar 2019 - 30 Jun 2024

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Utilising novel genetic diversity to increase Barley yields nationally logo
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Utilising novel genetic diversity to increase Barley yields nationally

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

This project aims to utilize an exotic barley population (HEB-25) to enhanced yield potential of future Australian barley varieties by identifying germplasm with improved biomass production under water-limiting environments, and higher grain number per ear or thousand grain weight than current yield-leading varieties. Incorporating beneficial alleles from HEB-25 into elite...

1 Jan 2020 - 31 Mar 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Screening of diverse barley germplasm for rapid discovery and utilisation of novel disease resistance in barley novel using R-HapSelect: A haplotype-based toolkit. logo
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Screening of diverse barley germplasm for rapid discovery and utilisation of novel disease resistance in barley novel using R-HapSelect: A haplotype-based toolkit.

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

The three barley pathogens, Pyrenophora teres f. maculata, the causal agent of the spot form of net blotch (SFNB), P. teres f. teres, that produces the net form of net blotch (NFNB), and Rhynchosporium secalis (scald) are genetically and pathogenically diverse. Their ability to reproduce sexually and to rapidly develop...

1 May 2020 - 30 Jun 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Program 1: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Development of international host differential sets. logo
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Program 1: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Development of international host differential sets.

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

The development and maintenance of international host differential sets is a key resource for identifying new virulent pathotypes in the field and identifying novel sources of genetic resistance. This program aims to work and collaborate internationally to develop host differential sets for the net form of net blotch (NFNB, caused...

1 Mar 2020 - 31 May 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions (DJPR) [Vic]

Program 2: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Surveillance and monitoring of pathogen populations - SARDI logo
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Program 2: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Surveillance and monitoring of pathogen populations - SARDI

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

The barley foliar diseases, scald (Rhynchosporium secalis), the net form of net blotch (NFNB, Pyrenophora teres f. teres) and the spot form of net blotch (SFNB, P. teres f. maculata) are caused by three highly variable fungal pathogen populations that can evolve rapidly to adapt to changing varieties and/or fungicide...

1 Mar 2020 - 31 May 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Program 4: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Screening of elite breeder material transitioning to a fee for service model. logo
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Program 4: Minimising the impact of major barley foliar pathogens on yield and profit: Screening of elite breeder material transitioning to a fee for service model.

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Industry access to a reliable, high-throughput disease screening capacity is a critical component of any effort to breed effectively to counter the impact of the three barley pathogens, Pyrenophora teres f. maculata, the causal agent of the spot form of net blotch (SFNB), P. teres f. teres, that produces the...

1 Mar 2020 - 31 Mar 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland (DAFQ)

Program 1: Identification of novel sources of resistance to Septoria Leaf Blotch and understanding of evolution and virulence of the pathogen logo
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Program 1: Identification of novel sources of resistance to Septoria Leaf Blotch and understanding of evolution and virulence of the pathogen

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

Septoria avenae blotch is a significant oat disease especially in Western Australia where almost all oat crops have some level of Septoria infection. Average yield losses from Septoria in the high rainfall zone are approximately 15% and result in significant economic loss. The Septoria pathogen population is diverse, making breeding...

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The University of Adelaide (UA)

Optimising genetic control of oat phenology for Australia logo
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Optimising genetic control of oat phenology for Australia

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

To achieve maximum yield and optimal grain quality, the time of year when cereal crops flower and produce grain must coincide with optimal seasonal conditions. Variation flowering time allows breeders to produce cereal varieties suited to specific regions, climates and management practices. Genes that underlie this variation have been identified...

1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Manipulating barley phenology to maximise yield potential logo
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Manipulating barley phenology to maximise yield potential

Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

The time of flowering is known to be the single most important trait that determines the adaptation and yield of barley, and other cereals, to the variable climates and diverse growing regions of the Australian grain belt. Achieving the highest possible yields and the best quality requires that the critical...

30 Jun 2014 - 30 Jun 2020

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Murdoch University