At InterGrain, we embrace collaboration and are committed to research projects aligned with our core mission – delivering grower value through market leading varieties.
We are uniquely positioned as an industry partner to validate and deploy the latest research methods and technologies into our breeding programs. We have a proven record of delivering high performing genetics and achieve this by being at the fore front of research.
Our collaborative linkages provide access to the latest research and technologies including new breeding technologies, genomic selection, biometrics, physiology, and plant pathology.
Research snapshot
Wheat
- Heat tolerance
- Gene editing
Barley
- Screening for net form net blotch
- Phenotyping for adapted root architecture
- Head loss
Oats
- Oat grain quality applications
- Oat milk – flavour and texture
- Drone based predictions of hay quality
- Disease resistance – Septoria and oat crown rust
- Building genomic capacity in oats
- Components of yield
Across all crops
- Predictive breeding
- Zoom Agri – variety identification
- Herbicide tolerance
- Genomic selection
- Gene editing – Australian National University (2 students)
- Powdery mildew in wheat – Curtin University and Centre for Crop Disease Management
- Oat milk properties – CSIRO
- Oat quality – CSIRO
- Pre Harvest Sprouting in wheat – DPIRD
- Barley Head loss – Melbourne University
- Nitrogen use efficiency in barley – Melbourne University
- 100 day wheat – CSIRO
- Genomic selection predictions & optimality – University of Wollongong
- Biometrics – Australian National University and CSIRO
- Grains Research and Development Corporation
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- CIMMYT – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
- AgriFutures
- Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
- Agriculture Victoria
- Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- South Australian Research and Development Institute
- The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
- Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre
- Grains Industry of Western Australia
- The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
- Western Australian Agricultural Cooperative
- University of Sydney
- Australian National University
- University of Southern Queensland
- University of Western Australia
- University of Queensland
- University of Melbourne
- University of Wollongong
- Murdoch University
- Edith Cowan University
- La Trobe University
- University of Adelaide
- Curtin University Centre for Crop Disease Management
- Washington State University
- Shaanxi Normal University
- Grains Innovation Australia
- ZoomAgri
- Syngenta
- Miller Coors
- INARI
- Sapporo
- Unigrain
- Wide Open Agriculture
- Fancy Plants
- Oatly
- Sanitarium
- Uncle Toby’s
- Blue Lake Milling
- Quaker
- Noumi
- Seamild
Germplasm evaluation services
InterGrain provides a Germplasm Evaluation Service for international breeding companies seeking to trial wheat and barley material in Australia.
InterGrain’s extensive national trial program services all major cereal growing environments providing a tailored service which can assist with:
- Germplasm quarantine entry requirements and logistics
- Yield testing
- In field agronomic assessment
- Experienced commercialisation advice on potential material fit and appropriate varietal comparators
- Variety commercialisation
For more information contact Dan Mullan – dmullan@intergrain.com
