Completed project
Australian almond variety evaluation and commercialisation program (AL12015)
Publication date: December 16, 2018
Delivery Partner: Key research providers: The University of Adelaide
Running between 2013 and 2018, this investment followed from the almond industry’s earlier breeding program to deliver new varieties with higher kernel yield and quality, self-fertility, improved disease tolerance, closed shells and desirable visual and eating qualities.
Activities of the evaluation and commercialisation program included…
The ongoing evaluation of selections from previous industry projects led to the commercialisation of six new varieties, which out-yielded the industry standard variety, Nonpareil. These new varieties are:
They are now registered with IP Australia (Plant Breeders Rights) and US Plant Patents have been issued.
The new commercial trials established under this program were ongoing at the time of this investment’s conclusion, to be continued through the subsequent Hort Innovation Almond Fund investment National almond breeding and evaluation program (AL17005).
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Almond Fund
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