Dairy BIO Forage Project 1e

The DairyBio Forage program focuses on three key areas of pasture performance - yield, persistence and quality. 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 like this project, that reduce the indigestible part of ryegrass and improve environmental impacts. Persistence will increase through endophytes (fungi) with novel properties and through breeding for drought. Project description: Integrative Genomics-Assisted F1 Hybrid Breeding of Perennial Ryegrass-Endophyte Symbiota for Pasture Improvement: Three (3) genome-edited Lolium perenne breeding lines produced with higher nutritive value. High digestibility ryegrasses. Exact genome edited events in perennial ryegrass - deletions in key lignification and/or pollen genes.