Hickey Lab

What if we could breed crops for entire farming SYSTEMS, not just individual performance? Our new preprint explores "legacy effects" - how one crop's genetics influence the next crop in rotation. The results surprised us! 🧵

This morning I will provide an overview of the opportunities to apply AI in plant breeding… of course nothing to worry about! 😆 Promising results include phenotyping, prediction and parent selection Genomics-Assisted Breeding Workshop 11:30am, Town and Country #PAG32

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

I'm looking for a new PhD student to work with industry to advance predictive breeding methods Project team includes myself, Dr @HannahMRobin and Dr @AllanRattey in partnership with @InterGrain1 ➡️bit.ly/3Vl7K27

Our latest paper explores the potential to harness haplotypes conferring multiple disease resistance in wheat breeding Check it out in @TheorApplGenet: rdcu.be/d1IoV Congratulations to PhD student Jingyang Tong!

Dr Samir Alahmad @QAAFI discusses Using drones to predict the hidden half of barley @HickeyLab @arc_gov_au @UQ_News @CSIRO @InterGrain1 #ABTS2024 #barley

Now online! Study by @YC_Kang05 explored the relationship between seminal root angle and root architecture in durum wheat Root angle associated with differences in allocation of roots at different depths but not aboveground traits or total root biomass doi.org/10.1002/fes3.5…

In 2018, we published multi-crop speed breeding protocols in @NaturePlants and today the article has attracted 1,000 citations! Congrats to all involved across UQ, John Innes Centre, our collaborators and particularly @BrandeWulff, @sreyag_ and Amy Watson rdcu.be/dNv4T

A genome-wide atlas of rust resistance loci in wheat! A summary of QTL/genes for the three rusts from 170 publications over two decades. We positioned 920 loci across 21 chromosomes based on the latest reference genome Check it out in @TheorApplGenet: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Are you interested in building a career in crop quantitative genetics? A unique opportunity for a Postdoctoral/Research Fellow to further develop their expertise and research profile. Develop and apply innovative AI-guided breeding methods! Apply here: seek.com.au/job/76398148

Our article “Satellite-enabled enviromics to enhance crop improvement” features on the cover of the new issue of Molecular Plant! 🌾 🌎 🛰️ Check it out here: cell.com/molecular-plan…

New @TheorApplGenet paper reveals positive genetic correlations between stay-green and barley yield across multiple environments; highlighting the potential as a future breeding target Huge thanks to our collaborators @InterGrain1 & congrats to @Stephanie_B37 on her first paper!

We are pretty excited about these mungbean plants! Why? They have been bred using our AI-guided breeding platform to stack haplotypes across the genome to increase seed size Lines will be distributed to breeders around the world as part of our ⁦@ACIARAustralia⁩ project

PhD student Stephanie Brunner presenting her barley stay-green research at the German Plant Breeding Conference last week @TheorApplGenet paper coming soon!

We are recruiting a Centre Manager for ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding led by The University of Queensland. If you have partnership experience and looking for a new leadership opportunity, this could be the position for you! Apply by 10th Jan linkedin.com/jobs/view/3785…

So proud of our amazing graduates! I think we set a new record with 5 PhD graduates and 1 Masters associated with the @HickeyLab! Congrats to @YasmineCan, @Dipika_UQ, @AsadAmeenpak, @yadavseema43, Amy Mackenzie and Maggie Zhang