Application of innovative plant breeding and phenotyping technologies to reduce the nutrient requirement of forages and improve livestock production efficiency

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A major challenge facing the UK livestock centre is the need to fulfill the increasing demand for meatand milk products whilst reducing the environmental impact of production. This project will applyinnovative plant genetics and breeding approaches to the development of improved varieties ofperennial ryegrass and white clover with increased nutrient use efficiency (NUE) delivery environmentaland economic benefits to primary producers and wider society. It will also deliver commercial return tothe seed company germional Holdings Ltd., who will market the improved varieties. The project will usethe National Plant Phenotyping Centre in Aberystwyth as a bridge between studies in flowing solutionculture and in the field and to develop high throuput technologies for the effective screening of newplant varieties with improved NUE in the glasshouse and in the field.