Dairy BIO Forage Project 2a - Foliar Insect Bioassays

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: Endophyte Technologies for Pasture Improvement: Crossed into one GSS conventional variety. High digestibility ryegrasses. Exact genome edited events in perennial ryegrass - deletions in key lignification and/or pollen genes.