SAGIT Podcast #13 – Breeding salt tolerant wheat – Stuart Roy

Soil salinity is a billion dollar constraint on wheat production across Australia, and changes to climate, land use and water quality threaten to make the issue worse. Now researchers at the University of Adelaide, with long -term support from SA grain growers through SAGIT, are close to developing new wheat breeds that can deliver benchmark yields on saline soils.

In this podcast episode, University of Adelaide's Associate Professor Stuart Roy describes how his team has been working to isolate phenotypic and genotypic traits for salt tolerance, then breed these into elite Australian varieties to develop a salt tolerant wheat for South Australian conditions.

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On average, SAGIT invests $2 million a year in supporting research crucial to advancing South Australia’s $4.6 billion grain industry.

These projects deliver real improvements in countless areas of grain growing, farming systems, soil management, harvesting, storage, processing and marketing, and they also provide technical information to growers.