Resolving the Genetics of Grain Pigmentation Traits in Rice

新的关键知识将使未来能够培育高质量的黑米品种，这些品种可以利用澳大利亚的高紫外线生长环境，使国内生产高价值、健康的黑米。国内外对黑米等有益健康的功能性食品的需求都在增加。通过在高紫外线辐射下种植优化品种，可以提高黑米中关键功能化合物的浓度，使澳大利亚处于生产最高质量黑米的有利地位。利用一种独特的遗传资源，该项目将解决作物遗传学和生长环境之间的相互作用如何推动黑米中功能化合物的集中。

New critical knowledge will enable future breeding of quality black rice cultivars that can exploit the high UV Australian growing environment to enable domestic production of high-value, healthy black rice. The demand for functional foods with health benefits, including black rice, is increasing both domestically and internationally. The concentration of key functional compounds in black rice may be increased by growing optimised cultivars under high-UV radiation, making Australia well placed to produce the highest quality black rice. Utilising a unique genetic resource this project will resolve how the interaction between crop genetics and the growing environment drives the concentration of functional compounds in black rice.