Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Speed breeding

  • QAAFI’s Associate Professor Lee Hickey

    Digging deep to boost barley

    QAAFI’s Associate Professor Lee Hickey has teamed up with Integrain, Australia’s Australia’s leading barley breeding company in an ARC Linkage-funded project to provide innovative breeding solutions that harness the ‘hidden’ part of the plant, roots, to support the development of more productive crops in the face of climate variability.
  • Associate Professor Lee Hickey

    Plant Breeding: One of the cool sciences behind our food

    Janice Person from the podcast Connecting Food and Farm spoke with Associate Professor Lee Hickey about some of the cool science that helps advance the seeds farmers plant and the foods on our plates.
  • Modern crop breeding for future food security

    Modern crop breeding for future food security

    Farmers around the world have recently experienced significant crop losses due to severe heat and drought. Such extreme weather events and the need to feed a rapidly growing population have raised concerns for global food security. While plant breeding has been very successful and has delivered today’s highly productive crop varieties, the rate of genetic improvement must double to meet the projected future demands. Here we discuss basic principles and features of crop breeding and how modern technologies could efficiently be explored to boost crop improvement in the face of increasingly challenging production conditions.
  • ‘Speed breeder’ sprints to an award. Dr Lee Hickey

    ‘Speed breeder’ sprints to an award

    Published on: 14 June 2019
    A researcher who is helping farmers by developing crop “speed breeding” technology has been recognised with one of Australia’s top awards.
    Dr Lee Hickey from the University of Queensland is tonight (Thursday 13 June) being presented with an ICM Agrifood Award at a gala event in Sydney, organised by the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.
  • Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people

    Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people

    Published on: 18 June 2019
    Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population.
  • Speed breeding of crops by Queensland researchers in bid to battle global hunger

    Speed breeding of crops by Queensland researchers in bid to battle global hunger

    Published on: 15 March 2019
    The world-first speed breeding technique was developed by scientists at the University of Queensland's alliance for agriculture and food innovation (QAAFI), who use light and temperature-controlled greenhouses to accelerate plant growth and deliver more tolerant crops.

  • Why the world needs faster food

    Published on: 17 December 2018
    Dr Lee Hickey performed at TEDxUQ earlier in the year, watch the recorded talk now.
  • DIY crop speed breeding system to boost drought research

    DIY crop speed breeding system to boost drought research

    Published on: 19 November 2018
    Plant speed breeding could be part of the solution to minimise the devastating effects of drought and climate change on crops in the future, according to a University of Queensland researcher.
  • NASA provides inspiration for plant-breeding advance

    NASA provides inspiration for plant-breeding advance

    Published on: 10 May 2017
    Crop improvement rates are lagging behind expected growth in demand, but a UQ innovation is set to make it easier to close the gap.

  • Space age plant breeding lights the way for future crops

    Published on: 2 January 2018
    A NASA experiment to grow wheat in space has inspired Australian scientists like Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation senior research fellow Dr Lee Hickey to develop a technology that slashes 12 months' growing time to six weeks.

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