Root system architecture (RSA) is a target for breeding crops with effective nutrient and water use. Breeding can use populations designed to map quantitative trait loci (QTL). Here we non-invasively phenotype roots leaves of the 16 foundation parents two multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) populations, covering diversity in spring (CSIRO MAGIC) winter (NIAB wheats. RSA compone...

Xavier Sirault, Jurgen Fripp, Anthony Paproki,Peter Kuffner, Chuong Nguyen, Rongxin Li, Helen Daily, Jianming Guo, Robert Furbank High Resolution Plant Phenomics Centre, CSIRO Plant Industry, Cnr Clunies Ross St and Barry dr, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia, Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane, Australia, CSIRO CMIS, ANU, CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney *correspondence: xavier...

Whether to develop inbred cultivars or F1 hybrids is a dilemma faced by many rice (Oryza sativa L.) breeders. This could be partially answered if one could select superior recombinant inbred lines with an equal yielding ability and good quality traits from commercial F1 hybrids. Thus, it was attempted in this study to select superior inbred lines from 2 commercial F1 hybrids after application o...

1 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Centre for Environment and Life Sciences, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 3 CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 University of Western Australia Institute of Agriculture, University of Western A...

In this paper we consider the extent of our knowledge of global beetle diversity. Depending on the estimates adopted, some 70–95% of all beetle species remain to be formally described, and at the current rate of progress it could be more than 200 years until the task is completed. One of the reasons for this is the difficulty of adequately sampling tropical beetle faunas and thereby ensuring su...

This paper described the archtecture of a hyperdocument system intended to provide access to a coherent body of knowledge, consisting of structured knowledge, text, graphics, data and executable models. The main focus of the research is in intermediate structure added to the documents to support the links between the structured knowledge and the textual knowledge. The system is implemented in a...

V. Haverd, M. R. Raupach, P. R. Briggs, J. G. Canadell, S. J. Davis, R. M. Law, C. P. Meyer, G. P. Peters, C. Pickett-Heaps, and B. Sherman CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3023, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia University of California, Dept. of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, USA CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, PB1, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia CICERO, P.O. Box 1129...