Improved crop breeding programmes through advanced Pollination Control Bag materials technology

该项目将调查开发一种创新的授粉控制袋的技术和商业可行性，以改进用于三种重要农作物（甜菜、小麦和芒草）的作物育种方案。现有的技术不适用于这一目的，它们的使用可能会损害植物健康和种子产量，并增加疾病的发病率和费用。一系列材料（薄膜和非织造布），纤维技术和技术将与学术和商业育种者一起进行研究和试验，旨在开发下一代授粉控制袋，以改善育种结果，减少袋内温度和湿度控制不良造成的损失，并增加种子产量。这将降低植物育种者的成本，加快新的商业作物品种（产量提高，抗旱，抗病或抗虫害，作物质量更高）的发现和推向市场的速度。

The project will investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of developing an innovative pollination control bag to improve crop breeding programmes used for three important agricultural crops: sugar beet, wheat and Miscanthus. Existing technologies are unfit for purpose and their use can be detremental to plant health and seed yield, and increase disease incidence and expense. A range of materials (films and nonwoven), fibre technologies and techniques will be investigated and trialled with academic and commercial breeders with the aim of developing the next generation of pollination control bags to improve breeding outcomes, reduce losses caused by poor temperature and humidity control within the bag, and increase seed yield. This will reduce costs for plant breeders and accelerate the rate at which new commercial crop varieties (with improved yields, drought, disease or pest resistance, and higher crop quality), can be discovered and brought to market.