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• Breeding new varieties of sugarcane for the Australian sugar industry - Part 2

  Did you know it takes at least 12 years to breed, trial and release a new variety of sugarcane for Australian commercial farming use? In this episode – the second in our two-part series examining SRA’s Variety Breeding Program - we examine the different trial phases of the program, to produce new cane varieties with superior productivity and agronomic traits, such as high yield, sugar content (CCS) and good resistance to disease. All traits that are central to helping the Australian sugar industry to remain productive, sustainable and profitable.

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• Breeding new varieties of sugarcane for the Australian sugar industry - Part 1

  In the first of a two-part series, we explore the meticulous process of breeding new varieties of sugarcane for the Australian sugar industry. Developing varieties with superior productivity and agronomic traits such as high yield, sugar content (CCS), and good resistance to disease is central to helping the industry to remain productive, sustainable and profitable. It's a process that takes many years of experimental genetic crossing, research and development. In this podcast, Northern Variety Development Manager Dr Felicity Atkin explains how SRA's variety development team, select parent plants to cross pollinate, to produce new genotypes for testing in its variety breeding program.

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