Wheat

CSIRO Plant Industry conducts research to promote profitable and sustainable agrifood, fibre and horticultural industries, develop new plant products and improve natural resource management.

CSIRO is breeding better grain varieties and improving the management of grain crops.

A team of Australian scientists has joined forces in a collaboration that will utilise state-of-the-art technology and materials science to determine the molecular structure of the protein components in some of our most common foods.

CSIRO is investigating ways of controlling a devastating new wheat disease strain which could lead to a global wheat production and food supply crisis.

CSIRO wheat trait information for cereal breeders.

CSIRO wheat marker information for cereal breeders.

CSIRO’s plant breeding capabilities benefit a range of agribusiness industries from horticulture and pastoral through to broadacre crops such as wheat.

Through tailored business arrangements and research alliances, CSIRO Plant Industry can deliver flexible and innovative research solutions for a range of industry needs.

Some of CSIRO’s best brains have been enlisted in an international effort to stop the spread of Ug99, a new wheat stem rust which threatens to devastate world wheat production. In this podcast, world leaders in rust research Dr Evans Lagudah and Dr Michael Ayliffe from CSIRO Plant Industry explain the link between Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Australian wheat varieties, and rice. (5.21)

Learn how the world’s first’ trigenomic’ chromosome can be used to breed wheat varieties resistant to diseases like Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus and leaf rust. (6:30)

CSIRO Black Mountain laboratories in Canberra have facilities servicing insect, plant, atmospheric, land and water science.

CSIRO Centre for Environment and Life Sciences is home to 300 scientists conducting researchto ensure an environmentally sustainable Australia and promoting and maintaining good health.

Ug99 is a strain of the fungus, wheat stem rust, and is considered one of biggest threats to wheat production worldwide. CSIRO Plant Industry is helping find  solutions to this potential threat to world food supplies. (2 pages)

CSIRO has discovered the 'avirulence' gene in the devastating wheat disease rust. (2 pages)

CSIRO's research into the origin and behaviour of psocids is leading to more targeted control.

CSIRO Plant Industry scientists are using a variety of approaches to assist breeders to develop better wheat for Australia's northern regions.