Congrats to the Hickey Lab Awardees for 2024! Best Paper: Jingyang Tong for his two articles in TheorApplGenet: rdcu.be/d3ncL rdcu.be/d3ncM Best Presentation: Samir Alahmad for his talk "UAV phenotyping to predict the hidden half of barley" at PAG

New paper in Plant and Soil, led by our collaborators in Germany: Rooting for microbes: impact of root architecture on the microbial community and function in top and subsoil rdcu.be/d5GJ6

🌿 Do you have a background in plant and animal breeding? Join the ARC Training Centre as a Training Coordinator & shape the future. 🌍 ➡️ bit.ly/4fi64xj

Spent the past couple of days getting to know everyone at Texas A&M and learning about their crop and animal research programs with Peter Crisp A huge thanks to Seth for being a super host!

Excellent presentations on 2024 deep sowing responses for the long coleoptile wheats from Corinne Celeste University of Melbourne and Ashlee Tierney Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) at the GRDC long coleoptile worship in Adelaide. Seeder setup, fertiliser, press wheel pressure, soil moisture discussed

✨ We're excited to share our first Centre newsletter. Catch up on all our news with our January update. 🚀 ➡️ bit.ly/3WFx6Ze

Check out our current seed availability for the 2025 cropping season through Seedclub Members! Get in touch with your local InterGrain Territory Manager, Seedclub Member or reseller for further info - intergrain.com/source-seeds/s…

🤝Strengthening research partnerships at Chickpea Breeding Australia! ARC Training Centre CI and University of Queensland QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation crop physiologist Dr Millicent Smith and the heat tolerance project team met with members of GRDC investments on chilling and phenology in

Proud to be part of a diverse team where we learn, motivate, and support each other. Our shared passion for crop improvement drives us to innovate and have an impact 🌱🌾

Professor Lee Hickey is presenting the potential of genetic algorithms to stack resistant haploblocks for triple rust resistance in barley #breedersweek in Melbourne. #rustresistance ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation CSIRO Lee Hickey

Meet 2025 WIT Early Career awardee Lamyae eddaoudy! A Ph.D. candidate at Mohammed V University, she uses microbiological, molecular and genomic tools to study how microorganisms interact with plants and improve wheat's stress resilience. ICARDA 🔗 bgri.cornell.edu/awards/wit-ear…

Exciting day yesterday at Warwick! Our partners at DPI have released two new mungbean cultivars: Brolga and Kookaburra 🐦 A team of UQ researchers attended the launch event hosted by DPI, GRDC, and the Australian Mungbean Association.

🌾Advancing durum wheat breeding for resilience & productivity! . #Syria #Aleppo #DurumWheatprogram #AgricultureTech. Super grateful for the invaluable support of Filippo Bassi & Samir Alahmad your contributions make all the difference! 💡

Catch up on our latest activities in the April edition of our newsletter: - Save the Date for our flagship symposium, Breeding Horizons 2025 - Apply to attend our Next-Gen Breeder Training Workshop - Recording from Prof Sam Clark's seminar on designing and optimising reference

1 week to go until #APBC2025! ⏳ 🌱 240+ delegates already registered 📍 Esplanade Hotel Fremantle 📅 June 4–6 3 days of insight, innovation & community in plant breeding. 🎟️ It's not too late to join us → apbconference.org #PlantBreeding Business Events Perth

🧅 Exciting PhD Opportunity in Crop Quantitative Genetics: Developing a Simulation Platform for Onion Predictive Breeding 🧅 Are you passionate about advancing agricultural science through cutting-edge genomic technologies? We're seeking a talented PhD candidate to join the ARC

Our June Newsletter is Live! Highlights This Month: 🗣️ Key insights from our Next-Gen Breeders Workshop hosted at UWA 🪴 Rapid recap of the 17th APBC conference 📽️ Dr Hannah Robinson's seminar recording on multi-omics applications in grapevine 🎓 Exciting Centre PhD

🌾 BREAKTHROUGH: We've developed a game-changing method using drones + AI to predict crop root traits in the field! Published in @J_Exp_Bot: academic.oup.com/jxb/advance-ar…