Now the fun really begins! 🌾 Hunting for new sources of flowering time variation for changing seasonal adaptation ourANU
#phenologyisfun

🍞 Flour blending can reduce food insecurity & improve macroeconomic conditions in import-dependent countries.
📎 Our new paper Global Food Security explores wheat flour blending to attenuate supply, demand, & price pressures in African staple crop markets: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Beautiful barley ourANU!
Awesome to have access to the OzBarley resource for diving into new research on canopy architecture traits Aust Plant Phenomics GRDC

Pretty cool to see the speed & scale of wheat root development & interactions in real-time using new rhizoboxes in collaboration with the ANU node of Aust Plant Phenomics 🌾

✍️ Get your abstracts in for the International Wheat Congress in Perth this September!
Abstract submission across a range of exciting session topics is open until May 6th.
See you in Perth! 🇦🇺
Rajeev Varshney FRS Wheat Initiative Murdoch's Centre for Crop & Food Innovation & SABC GRDC

Great road trip around the NSW Tablelands exploring the diversity of farming systems & learning more about existing & new dual-purpose cropping options with NSW DPI

🌾 Visiting one of the founding sites of Australian wheat breeding NSW DPI in Cowra.
🇦🇺 William Farrer, JT Pridham & team established breeding & testing activities across the Tablelands, laying the foundation for today’s thriving wheat industry

Beautiful day in the field today visiting a range of NSW DPI trial sites across the NSW Central Tablelands 🦘 🌾

Wheat root rhizobox imaging is underway! Excited to quantify below-ground traits associated with abiotic stresses across a range of genotypes. Great collaboration with the ANU Aust Plant Phenomics node team.

📈 Current regulations are lagging behind the impressive progress (& environmental benefits) of many ag-tech innovations.
🔖 Read insightful AgriFutures evokeAG reflections from Roxana C T Agrifood Innovation Institute

🍂 It's starting to feel like Autumn in Canberra but it's still warm & sunny in the glasshouse.
🌾 Wheat pre-breeding activities are go ourANU

Biosecurity is fundamental to Australian ag & its global value 🇦🇺
Our second Agrifood Innovation Institute speaker Tony Mahar from the National Farmers Federation highlights the need to get the biosecurity framework right incl transparent use of the collected funds to deliver +ve outcomes 🌱

A new “shared responsibility” model for ensuring Australian biosecurity.
Our first speaker Agrifood Innovation Institute seminar series Saša Vanek from the Tax & Transfer Policy Institute ourANU discusses the implications of taxing primary producers for externalities

The new Triticum aestivum Next Generation’ array (TaNG) was developed University of Bristol Biological Sciences using a novel haplotype optimization approach & provides improved distribution of SNPs for both GWAS and copy number variation analysis.
New paper out now Plant Biotechnology Journal
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The new Biosecurity Protection Levy comes into effect on 1st July 2024.
Next Tuesday 2nd April I'll be facilitating a discussion Agrifood Innovation Institute with Tony Mahar & Saša Vanek Austaxpolicy on the implications for Australia's primary producers.
Register now: events.humanitix.com/afii-industry-…

Great ANU Division of Plant Sciences seminar today from Julian Rodriquez-Algaba #GRRC Aarhus University who is currently a visiting researcher with The Tattooed A/Professor ourANU 🇦🇺 🇩🇰
Exploring sexual recombination in cereal rust fungi & importance of new understanding on Berberis spp. as alternate hosts.

🎬 Lights, camera, action!
Today the Agrifood Innovation Institute team have been sharing our vision to grow & support a dynamic agrifood community in Australia & beyond, highlighting fantastic support for innovation from ACT Government & sharing why everyone really should VisitCanberra!

Congratulations to all authors for their nice contributions to the Special Issue of The Plant Genome 🌱🧬 'Genomics of Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Crop Resilience to Climate Change' led by us Rajeev Varshney FRS Alison Bentley and Henry T. Nguyen
Issue is accessible at
acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19403372/2…

Happy Friday! The first of our wheat root rhizobox experiments are up & away ourANU thanks to the support of the ANU Aust Plant Phenomics team 🌾

Hot off the press! Read the March issue of The Plant Genome 🌱🧬 featuring the special section 'Genomics of Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Crop Resilience to Climate Change' led by Rajeev Varshney FRS Alison Bentley and Henry T. Nguyen

🔗acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19403372/2…