Application of innovative plant breeding and phenotyping technologies to reduce the nutrient requirement of forages and improve livestock production efficiency
Lead Participant:
OPENFOLDE LIMITED
Abstract
A major challenge facing the UK livestock centre is the need to fulfill the increasing demand for meat
and milk products whilst reducing the environmental impact of production. This project will apply
innovative plant genetics and breeding approaches to the development of improved varieties of
perennial ryegrass and white clover with increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) delivery environmental
and economic benefits to primary producers and wider society. It will also deliver commercial return to
the seed company germional Holdings Ltd., who will market the improved varieties. The project will use
the National Plant Phenotyping Centre in Aberystwyth as a bridge between studies in flowing solution
culture and in the field and to develop high throuput technologies for the effective screening of new
plant varieties with improved NUE in the glasshouse and in the field.
and milk products whilst reducing the environmental impact of production. This project will apply
innovative plant genetics and breeding approaches to the development of improved varieties of
perennial ryegrass and white clover with increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) delivery environmental
and economic benefits to primary producers and wider society. It will also deliver commercial return to
the seed company germional Holdings Ltd., who will market the improved varieties. The project will use
the National Plant Phenotyping Centre in Aberystwyth as a bridge between studies in flowing solution
culture and in the field and to develop high throuput technologies for the effective screening of new
plant varieties with improved NUE in the glasshouse and in the field.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
---|---|---|
OPENFOLDE LIMITED | £588,481 | £ 264,816 |
  | ||
Participant |
||
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY | ||
INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |