Australian Government: Grains Research and Development CororationGRDC Annual Report 2005-2006

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Appendix 2: GRDC project list

Project expenditure, 2005-06

Pulse and oilseed breeding
Project no. Project title Expenditure $
ACA5 Contribution to ACIAR project-CS1/1999/072 Oilseed Brassica Improvement in China, India and Australia 175,000
AOF00003 Taskforce of Adventitious Presence of GM Canola 20,000
AOF00005 Canola Quality Objectives Group 15,000
CI29 Lupin (narrow-leafed lupin) breeding-capital component 65,000
COL00001 Assessing the direction and potential of the soybean industry in Australia- Consultancy Agreement 10,176
CSP338 National soybean improvement 1,054,372
DAN00034 Northern Faba Bean Improvement Program 358,092
DAN00052 Development of chickpea genotypes and improved agronomic practices for chickpea, faba bean and mungbean in northern New South Wales 119,917
DAN00053 Canola and mustard in northern New South Wales 137,927
DAN00062 Albus Lupin Breeding 284,864
DAN00063 National Brassica Improvement Program-Component 2, Stage 3: New South Wales Agriculture 270,000
DAN00065 Northern Desi Chickpea breeding program 248,456
DAN00090 A pilot project on control of Bean leafroll virus on faba bean in the northern region 25,000
DAN00094 Australian Chickpea Breeding Program 557,688
DAN00096 Canola and mustard in northern New South Wales (II) 123,630
DAQ00015 Crop Improvement of Grain Sorghum in Australia-Core Breeding 562,061
DAQ00060 National Mungbean Improvement Program 228,938
DAQ00062 Cloning of an Insect Resistance Gene from Sorghum 117,346
DAQ00070 Australian Peanut Improvement Program 460,000
DAQ00073 Implementing technologies and strategies to maintain resistance to sunflower rust 182,450
DAQ00085 Identifying Candidate Genes for Stay-green in Sorghum 148,090
DAQ00092 Maize germplasm enhancement and productivity improvement for tropical Australia 139,755
DAS00047 National Brassica Improvement Project-South Australia Component 59,300
DAS00050 Lupin evaluation-South Australia-Victoria node 90,026
DAS00059 Improved vetch varieties for Australian farmers and end-users 193,995
DAV00060 National Brassica Improvement Program-Department of Primary Industries Victoria and Lead Agency 354,915
DAS00066 Pulse Germplasm Enhancement-Vegetative and reproductive frost tolerance in pulse crops 38,179
DAS00067 Pulse Germplasm Enhancement-Bacterial blight in field pea, pod drop in lentil, and heat stress tolerance in field pea and faba bean 54,805
DAV00071 Australian Field Pea Breeding Program 365,166
DAV00072 Australian Lentil Breeding Program 221,229
DAV00073 Pulse Germplasm Enhancement-Boron and salt tolerance in temperate pulses and durable ascochyta blight resistance in chickpea 24,500
DAV451 Coordinated improvement of chickpea in Australia-south-east region 194,017
DAW00101 Evaluation and selection of high-quality brassica breeding lines for short-season environments of Western Australia 149,804
DAW00104 Yellow lupin improvement 319,138
DAW00105 Western Lupin Technology (Narrow-leafed lupin breeding for southern Australia) 737,206
DAW706 Breeding of chickpea for the western region 15,000
DAW707 Breeding field peas for the western region 81,367
GBE00001 Consultancy Agreement-National Pulse Breeding Program 83,000
SGA00001 Business Plan for the Australian Canola Industry 6,247
UA00079 Faba Bean Breeding-Southern and Western Regions 465,050
UT00004 Grain Legume and Oilseed Evaluation in Tasmania 146,400
UWA00009 Improved lupin grain quality and yield through genetic manipulation of key physiological traits 74,794
UWA00036 An international collaboration to develop interspecific hybrids between chickpea and its wild annual relatives 5,000
UWA00091 An international collaboration to develop interspecific hybrids between chickpea and its wild relatives 61,565
UWA00092 Lupin germplasm characterisation 220,000
UWA00093 Pearl Lupin-development of the first Australian cultivar for commercial evaluation 49,488
UWA00094 Interspecific hybridisation of lupins 71,780
  Total pulse and oilseed breeding 9,385,733
  TOTAL VARIETIES 55,101,201

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