Visiting Experts 2012/728 Enhancement of tetraploid and triploid production in the Australian Pacific Oyster industry
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2012/728 Enhancement of tetraploid and triploid production in the Australian Pacific Oyster industry |
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By Dr Standish Allen
The overall goal for shellfish culture limited (SCL) is to make tetraploid technology work as effectively as anywhere in the world. In many ways, SCL is ahead of the game, with dedicated facilities and technicians to pursue this goal. There is currently only a hand full of commercial operations producing natural triploids and even fewer assessing breeding technologies required to enhance the breeding of tetraploid populations.
The breeding of specific tetraploid lines is a new challenge filled with a number of, as yet, answered questions about the biology and genetics of tetraploids. Long term breeding objectives will require answers to these questions and this Visiting Expert project aims to initiate some of this work and set a course for future work for SCL, CSIRO and VIMS, and train SCL staff. |
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