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Investment

GRDC Code: IGP2103-001AWX
National Milling Oats Breeding Program
The National Oat Breeding Program, backed by joint $5.4 million investment from the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and AgriFutures Australia over five years, was propelled into a new era under the leadership of commercial breeding company, InterGrain in 2021.
The Program builds on research in milling and hay oat breeding by the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), a division of the Department of Primary Industries and Regions.
The new national oat breeding program lead by InterGrain will increase rates of genetic gain, improve farm gate value of oats, and respond to the changing needs of Australian growers and exporters.
Through extensive industry consultation, InterGrain have refined breeding targets to reflect industry (growers, millers, end-users) requirements:
Increase selection program size
  • Increase yield, disease and quality testing thus, increasing amount of genotypes under greater selection pressure and accuracy in reduced timeframe
  • More sites to enable greater dissection of genotype by environment for broad vs specific adaptation, and screening heat/drought tolerance
  • Improvements in yield trial network and ensure trial management is reflective of grower agronomy practice
  • Improvements in biometrics to further increase selection accuracy with reduced selection timelines
Initiation and implementation of selection platform technology
  • InterGrain are building genomic selection capacity, linked with researchers at both phenotypic and genotypic level
  • High-through put phenomics (HTP) well entrenched in both grain oats and hay programs, driven by oaten hay. This HTP capacity will improve physiological understanding of genetic performance and facilitate increased selection gains for adaptive traits.
  • Combining all aspects for improved parental selection and cross combinations
Optimise commercial seed production to ensure sufficient volumes of high-quality clean seed are taken to market in a short time-frame
Advance marketing footprint
  • Drive adoption rates of improved oat genetics through grower-focused marketing strategy
  • Understand end-user requirements and develop increased market access
Project start date:
01/03/2021
Project end date:
30/03/2026
Crop type:
  • Oats, (Cereal)
Organisation
InterGrain Pty Ltd
Region:
North, South, West
Project status
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