Education

Australian Grain Technologies are committed to the education of tomorrow's plant breeders and researchers. We provide teaching, mentoring and project supervision   in conjunction with our research partners and shareholders. 

Australian Grain Technologies staff members, Dr Steve Jefferies and Dr Haydn Kuchel are Affiliate Lecturers with the University of Adelaide. They, along with other staff, are engaged by the University of Adelaide to teach in their under-graduate programs. AGT staff supervise post-graduate honours and PhD students and provide the plant breeding facilities required by their projects.

Our staff also provide  high school students demonstrations within our quality and molecular marker laboratories

Current Honours and PhD projects undertaken within or contributed to by AGT

Honours Students

Paul Telfer: The grazing tolerance of wheat in dual-purpose systems

PhD Students

Steve Talbot: Introgression of genetic material from primary synthetic hexaploids into an Australian bread wheat

James Edwards: The genetic mapping of drought related traits in bread wheat

Dion Edwards: The genetics of drought and heat tolerance in bread wheat

Michael Quinn: The genetic and environmental control of yellow pigment in durum wheat

Completed Honours and PhD projects undertaken within or contributed to by AGT

Honours Students

Charlotte Fox: The genetic control and agronomic effects of leaf waxiness and glaucousness in bread wheat in South Australia

Tom Giles: Development of selection methods for long coleoptile in a wheat breeding programme

Michael Brougham: The relationship between VRN sensitivity, PPD sensitivity, BVP and grain yield

Michael Lines: Identifying herbicide tolerance in bread wheat

PhD students

Haydn Kuchel: The genetic analysis and manipulation of economically important traits in bread wheat

Jason Reinheimer: The genetic improvement of wheat and barley for reproductive frost tolerance