CAIGE

Cimmyt Australia ICARDA

Germaplasm Evaluation

Dear CAIGE colleagues,

W elcome to the March

edition of the CAIGE newsletter.

March is always a busy time of the year

for CAIGE, so we have plenty of news to

report!

One of the biggest event of the month

was our Annual CAIGE meeting, held in

Adelaide. I would like to say thanks to

the participants and attendees, who

joined us for the day. It was a pleasure to

meet you! This meeting was a great op-

portunity to catch up with the CAIGE

community and share the progress of the

project or issues. We do apologize for

the late notice for the dates and the in-

convenience it created.

Due to unforeseen events, the seed in-

crease for 2016 had some issues and was

partially increased throughout summer.

It is almost finished and is showing very

good results. We aim to deliver the seeds

as soon as possible for the next yield trial

by mid-April.

The last yield trials have been analyzed

and are available on CAIGE website for

durum, bread wheat and barley. All the

details can be found on page 4.

March is a busy season for the CAIGE

project, involving a great amount of seed

movement and trial preparation. A sum-

mary is given on page 3 and 5.

The joke section is still here at the end,

so don’t miss it! Enjoy.

A bientôt

Marine Guerret

CAIGE Coordinator

• 5--7 April 2017 2nd International workshop on Barley Leaf Diseases ( Rabat –Morocco)

• 9-12 April 2017 Barley breeders visit—ICARDA Morocco

• 18-23 April 2017 Durum wheat breeders visit– ICARDA Morocco

• 16-23 April 2017 Bread wheat breeders visit– ICARDA Egypt & morocco

• 11-15 September 2017 6th International Cereal Nema-todes Symposium- ( Agadir, Morocco)

• 11-17 March 2017 4th ICC Latina America Cereals conference & 13th International Gluten Workshop ( mexico city mexico )

March Edition 2017 p2 CAIGE Annual Meeting

p3 Seed movement 2017

p4 Analysis Yield trial 2016 wheat, barley, durum

p5 CAIGE Yield trial 2017 wheat, barley, durum

p5 New data on CAIGE website

p6 CAIGE website data

p6 Laughter the best medicine

The CAIGE annual meeting was held on Monday 6th March 2017 at the Uni-

versity of Adelaide, Waite Campus. Despite the change of dates, about 30

people attended the meeting.

Dr Amer Dababat from CIMMYT-Turkey joined us and presented his work on

Soil Borne Pathogen resistance screening. He kindly represented Dr Ravi

Singh and Dr Karim Ammar from CIMMYT and delivered their presentations

( bread and durum respectively). The presentation from ICARDA (bread and

durum) was delivered by Prof Richard Trethowan on behalf of Dr Tadesse

Wuletaw and Dr Filippo Bassi.

Dr Mark Dieters could not join us physically in Adelaide but still managed to

present the CAIGE-barley report via teleconference.

Dr Ian Edwards talked about his last visit to CIMMYT and how enriching this

event is for the Australian breeders.

Dr Livinus Emebiri came from Wagga Wagga and gave us an exciting update

of his biosecurity project.

All the presentations delivered at the meeting can be found on the CAIGE

website: NEWS >> CAIGE MEETING (or click HERE ).

Please, remember to ask for permission is you wish to use any material from

the presentations. Thank you to all who attended and we hope to see you at

the next year’s meeting as well!

CAIGE Annual Meeting 2017

CAIGE Material re-leased from quaran-tine: going to be increased

Barley:

RWA17 ICARDA Russian Wheat Aphids ZBS17 ICARDA Breeders selections SDJ17 ICARDA Landrace

Wheat: (release expected for April)

ZIZ17 ICARDA Bread wheat ZWB17 CIMMYT Bread wheat ZVS17 CIMMYT Bread wheat, breeders selection

Durum: (release expected for April)

ZDL17 ICARDA Durum wheat

ZDG17 CIMMYT Durum wheat

The 2017 seed shipment arrived on

time in Australia. These lines will be

released shortly from quarantine and

concurrently increased and screened

for rust resisance (wheat and durum).

This shipment will be ready for yield

trials in 2018.

Barley:

ZBS16 ICARDA Breeders’ selections– high input ZBT16 ICARDA Breeders’ selections – low input LAN16 ICARDA Landrace ZIB16 ICARDA 3rd GSBYT ZIC16 ICARDA International Barley Yield trial high input 2015/2016

Wheat:

ZIF16 ICARDA Bread wheat ZWB16 CIMMYT Bread wheat ZIZ16 ICARDA Bread wheat, breeders selection in 2015

Durum:

ZDL16 ICARDA Durum wheat, 39th International Durum Observation Nursery ZDK16 ICARDA Durum wheat, 39th International Durum Yield trial ZDG16 CIMMYT Durum wheat

The shipment released in 2016 will be in trials across the country in

2017. The anticipated sites can be found on the next page of the

CAIGE Material for disease screening 2017

CAIGE Material for yield trial 2017

Barley:

Outstanding lines from 2015 shipment 2016 lines

Wheat:

CWA15 ICARDA Bread wheat CWANA RAV15 CIMMYT Bread wheat (R. Singh selection) ZIG14 Bread wheat (Rajaram’s material )

Lines that performed well in yield trial in 2016 will

be screened for major non-rust diseases in 2017.

Seed movement 2017

CAIGE Yield trial Analysis 2016

Ms Jodine O'Connor and Dr Ky

Mathews provided the analysis for

the CAIGE bread wheat and durum

wheat trials. Dr Mark Dieters and Dr

Vivi Arief analysed the barley results.

Barley analysis : Germplasm evaluation >> Barley >> Yield trial >> 2016

Bread Wheat: Germplasm evaluation >> Wheat >> Yield trial >> 2016

Durum Wheat: Germplasm evaluation >> Durum >> Yield trial >> 2016

In a summary:

- 3 out of 8 sites included in the analysis

-yield: between 5.1T/ha (Narrabri) and 6.8T/ha

(Roseworthy)

-many varieties from ZDG15 performed above commer-

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- 7 out of 8 sites included in the analysis

-yield: between 4.3T/ha (Northstar) and 7T/ha (Horsham)

-many varieties from CWA15 and ZIG14 performed above

commercial checks

http://www.caigeproject.org.au/germplasm-evaluation/durum/yield-trial-australia/

durumyieldtrial2016/

In a summary:

- Analyses undertake, using unique geno-

type identifier (GID) across years (2015,

2016) and ICARDA nurseries

-6 out of 8 trials included in the analysis

(2015)

-7 out of 8 trials included in the analysis

(2016)

http://www.caigeproject.org.au/germplasm-evaluation/bread/yield-trial-australia/

yield-trial-australia/

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http://www.caigeproject.org.au/germplasm-evaluation/barley/yield-trial-australia/caige-yield-trial-barley-

2016/

CAIGE Yield trial 2017

Barley– Wheat-Durum

The 2016 shipment was multiplied at Narrabri and

Esperance in 2016. The Esperance Increase was

flooded and the CIMMYT durum wheat shipped too

late to Australia. CAIGE multiplied these lines over

summer in Armidale and Tamworth, which slightly

delayed the plans for CAIGE yield trials in 2017. To

reassure you, the summer increase went very well

and with the high temperature, the harvest will take

place a bit earlier than initially planned. We hope to

have all the seeds packaged and sent to the breed-

ers by mid April. We will communicate any updates

to the breeders.

New data on CAIGE website

Durum 7 sites Wheat 7 sites Barley 8 sites

Tamworth Narrabri 2 in SA

Narrabri Rowena Lockhart

Northstar Roseworthy

2 QLD

Kaniva Kapunda Roseworthy

Junee Balaklava

2 in WA

Horsham 1 in NSW

Toodyay 1 in WA

March is a busy time of the year for CAIGE website. This list is here to

help you to keep track of the latest data published over the month and

how to access it:

► Minutes from CAIGE annual meeting (2016) : News >> CAIGE meeting

► CIMMYT durum donor data for 2015/2016/2017: Germplasm evaluation >> Durum >> Donor Da-

ta >> 2015 or 2016 or 2017 or Australian lines

► Barley quality data for 2015 and 2016: Germplasm evaluation >> Barley >> Quality data

>> 2015 or 2016

► Shipment 2017 for wheat and durum materials: Germplasm evaluation >> Durum or Wheat >>

Imported list >> 2017

► 2016 CAIGE yield trial analysis for barley, wheat and durum: Germplasm evaluation >> Barley or

Durum or Wheat >> Yield trial >> 2016

Laughter is the best medicine

CAIGE Website statistics

CAIGE website is getting quite popular as you can see on

the graph! March counted 1238 pages views, 235 unique

visits and 82 returning ones. We hope you enjoy the new

features of the CAIGE website.

We want to keep improving this support and make it to suit

your need as much as possible. We truly need your feed-

back and would appreciate if you could fill in this little

questionnaire (10 questions—2 min).

You can find the link on CAIGE homepage (at the bottom)

and by clicking HERE

Laughter, the best medicine

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tassium? It went OK

What did Gregor Mendel say when he found-

ed genetics? Woopea

Two chemists go into a bar.

The first one says "I think I'll

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one says "I think I'll have an

H2O too" — and he died

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