Dairy BIO: Forage Project 1a

DairyBio is the dairy industry’s leading bioscience research program. Its forage program projects like this one are designed to breed plants with higher yield, higher energy and increased persistence. DairyBio aims to have cultivars available in 2030 that will improve pasture productivity by up to $800 per hectare per year. Yield increases of up to 40 per cent are possible with new hybrid breeding methods and the development of genomic selection tools for pasture. Quality of pastures will increase through new breeding technologies that reduce the indigestible part of ryegrass and improve environmental impacts. Project description: Integrative Genomics-Assisted F1 Hybrid Breeding of Perennial Ryegrass-Endophyte Symbiota for Pasture Improvement: SI Allele Typing. Molecular marker technologies, associated protocols and service provision to select plants for generation of F1 parental pools.