Plant Breeding and Genetics

The University of Adelaide Waite Campus is a centre of excellence for plant breeding and genetics. The Plant Breeding and Genetics Group develops new crop varieties and germplasm, and conducts research in plant genetics, genomics and related areas of biochemistry and biometrics.

For more information, please contact Prof Diane Mather

Research Areas

	Plant Breeding		Plant Genetics
	Cereal Biochemistry		Biometrics and Bioinformatics

Research Partners

Many of our key partners in plant breeding and genetics research are co-located with us on the Waite Campus:

• Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
• Australian Genome Research Facility
• Australian Grain Technologies Pty Ltd
• CSIRO
• Molecular Plant Breeding Cooperative Research Centre
• South Australian Research Development Institute (SARDI)