Archive for October, 2021


AUS - UWA BREEDS FOR ACCELERATED CROP IMPROVEMENT

Source: Farm Weekly – 05 October 2021.

The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Institute of Agriculture has collaborated with international researchers to develop a roadmap to fast-forward breeding for accelerated crop improvement and rapid delivery systems, which will lead to a food-secure world.

Two papers, recently published in Trends in Genetics and Nature Biotechnology, were the result of a Perth-based workshop organised by The UWA Institute of Agriculture and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and attended by research institutions from Australia, India, Austria, China, Mexico and the United Kingdom…