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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! 🧵

Join the UQ AI-Guided Crop Breeding Team as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Crop Quantitative Genetics. Help shape the future of agriculture with genomics, AI & speed breeding! Apply now 👉 seek.com.au/job/88037707

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!

My first tri-societies meeting, and what an experience! Got lost trying to find my symposium room. Ended up doing laps around the convention centre in San Antonio (wishing Stava logged it). What a massive meeting and powerhouse of crop, agronomy and soil researchers in the USA!

Cheers to a successful mungbean breeders workshop!

Rooms to mimic rainforests or deserts, the capacity to control the light, temp, humidity and CO2, I got an exclusive tour behind the scenes brand new Plant Future Facility at UQ the most precise lab of its kind in the southern hemisphere @QAAFI @UQ_News abc.net.au/listen/program…

EXCITING TIMES AHEAD FOR PREDICTIVE AGRICULTURE! 👏🌾 Great to see AI-guided FastStack haplotype wheat in the field. They perform well. Great job from @UQ_News @QAAFI @BreedersPlant @DrHikov @eric_uq 👏👏 .....loading to @CIMMYT

And wrapping up the final plenary session of #IWCPerth2024 is Dr Eric Dinglasan from @QAAFIl who shares an overview of the potential offered by AI-guided breeding for wheat genetic improvement.

Our new paper in @plantgenome highlights the potential of optimal haplotype stacking (OHS), a method that retains useful diversity in breeding populations Congrats to team incl. Kira Villiers, @KaiV_F, Ben Hayes, @eric_uq & Bertus Jacobs @BreedersPlant acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JZSFBX95…

@MarkBalendres Salamat

NEWS: A new industry partnership will harness cutting-edge AI technology to improve sorghum breeding for the benefit of Australian growers. Congratulations Dr Eric Dinglasan @eric_uq . We're looking forward to working together with you on this exciting project. #grainsorghum #pacificseeds #agresearch #growingpossibilities

Really grateful and excited to receive @AdvanceQld Industry Research Fellowship in partnership with @BreedersPlant @PacificSeeds @UQ_News @QAAFI. Special mention to the QAAFI team: Ben Hayes, @DrHikov @EmmaOmics @SorgGuy Karine Chenu

And we're off... Ben Hayes from @UQ_News takes the stage at @AGBT Ag 2024 to discuss chromosome segment stacking to create ultimate crop and livestock genotypes. #AGBTAg

It’s a wrap. The last day of the conference started with a inspiring keynote of Mark Cooper who revisited the breeders equation followed by some last excellent talks. Thanks to everyone who joined, you made the conference really exciting!

@DrHikov 🫣

Here's a photo of a Hickey Lab meeting from 10 years ago... great memories and I've been lucky to work with so many amazing students who are now doing great things!