Breeding for success: diversity in action

摘要: The 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference was held in Christchurch, New Zealand, 18–21 April 2006, with the aim to highlight economic, sociological and environmental beneWts of plant breeding its associated sciences. It brought together 335 scientists industry representatives from 14 countries, predominantly Australia Asia. is every four years. main conference theme “Breeding for success: diversity action” reXected not only importance genetic underpinning successful programmes, but also crops science disciplines that interact contribute contemporary breeding. Presentations encompassed activities across 90 diverse representing pastoral, arable, vegetable, fruit, ornamental forestry sectors. This crop-based matched by biological breeding: germplasm resources, reproductive biology, cytology, population genetics, quantitative tissue cell culture molecular biology. organised under six themes: