Australia's plant breeding needs - a report to the Minister for Primary Industry
Lazenby, A.
Australia's plant breeding needs - a report to the Minister for Primary Industry - 1986 - Printed
23 tables, 3 graphs, 3 fig., 61 ref. Summary (En) AGRIS/ABOA Coordinator, CSIRO Inf. Services, POB 89, East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia
This report examines Australia's needs with regard to the introduction of Plant Variety Rights, and the need to ensure that plant breeding remains responsive to industry and changes in technology. Current breeding effort was addressed by survey, interviews and submissions. Resources invested in improving wheat were disproportionate to that for barley, summer-growing cereals, oil crops, sugar, cotton and rice. Australian agriculture would benefit from more breeding in pasture, horticulture, ornamental plants and other field crops. Total resources invested are insufficient for rapid and effective improvement of agricultural and horticultural plants. Funding is the most significant deficiency, and state government support is declining. The service emphasis of public programs contrasts with the market orientation of private breeders and lack of access to varieties bred overseas is limiting crop improvement in Australia. Fragmentation of effort and quarantine restrictions are organisational impediments. R oyalties paid on public varieties should be returned to crop improvement programs, after P.V.R. legislation
English
0-644-04949-1
Crops
Grain crops
Grazing lands
Land resources
Malvaceae
Natural resources
Oceania
Plant genetics and breeding
95-076488
Australia's plant breeding needs - a report to the Minister for Primary Industry - 1986 - Printed
23 tables, 3 graphs, 3 fig., 61 ref. Summary (En) AGRIS/ABOA Coordinator, CSIRO Inf. Services, POB 89, East Melbourne VIC 3002 Australia
This report examines Australia's needs with regard to the introduction of Plant Variety Rights, and the need to ensure that plant breeding remains responsive to industry and changes in technology. Current breeding effort was addressed by survey, interviews and submissions. Resources invested in improving wheat were disproportionate to that for barley, summer-growing cereals, oil crops, sugar, cotton and rice. Australian agriculture would benefit from more breeding in pasture, horticulture, ornamental plants and other field crops. Total resources invested are insufficient for rapid and effective improvement of agricultural and horticultural plants. Funding is the most significant deficiency, and state government support is declining. The service emphasis of public programs contrasts with the market orientation of private breeders and lack of access to varieties bred overseas is limiting crop improvement in Australia. Fragmentation of effort and quarantine restrictions are organisational impediments. R oyalties paid on public varieties should be returned to crop improvement programs, after P.V.R. legislation
English
0-644-04949-1
Crops
Grain crops
Grazing lands
Land resources
Malvaceae
Natural resources
Oceania
Plant genetics and breeding
95-076488