Breeding & varieties

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development has formal links to national breeding programs for lupins, pulses and oats. The department also has significant research inputs in pre-breeding for wheat and barley, supporting the development of new varieties for Western Australia and national grain growers, with particular emphasis on frost, drought and salinity.

The National Apple Breeding Program based at DPIRD, has produced the Cripps Pink (known as Pink Lady) and Cripps Red (Sundowner) with research into more great varieties being undertaken.

DPIRD is working to select better strawberries for the WA industry.

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  • Fer wine grapes grown at Manjimup, WA

    Alternative wine grape evaluation in Manjimup

    16 December 2013

    Since 1998 the Department of Agriculture and Food in conjunction with the Western Australian Vine Improvement Association has imported more than 60 new varieties and clones of wine grape material.

  • Green pods on PBA Jurien with crop in the background

    PBA Jurien

    20 August 2015

    PBA Jurien is a high yielding Australian sweet lupin variety suitable for all lupin growing areas of Australia and it provides a significant yield improvement over current varieties in most of thes

  • WA Germplasm Collection at Manjimup

    Western Australian Vine Improvement Association (WAVIA)

    28 January 2014

    WAVIA is an industry-based organisation that works to facilitate the access, production and distribution of improved planting material to the viticulture industry of Western Australia.

  • Honey bee visiting an apple flower

    Recommendations for successful apple pollination

    6 November 2013

    Pollination is one of the keys to profitable apple production. As a general rule, apple varieties are not self-fertile and will not set a full crop without a compatible polliniser.

  • Mango trees growing in suburban Perth can bear well.

    Growing mangoes in cooler areas of Western Australia

    3 December 2013

    Mango fruit produced in the Perth area is seasonally the latest in Australia and receives high prices in WA and interstate.

  • What is the optimum plant density for your barley variety?

    25 February 2016

    Recent research from the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia's barley agronomy team has busted the myth that increasing the seed rate of barley will significantly decrease the qua

  • close up of avocado flower showing the stamens standing upright, surrounding the stigma in two whirls, also notice the slit openings in the anthers

    Cross-pollinisers for Hass avocado

    28 July 2014

    While Hass avocados are commonly grown in the South-West of Western Australia without a cross-polliniser variety, much interest has focused around the potential benefits of using a suitable cross-p

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    Growing pumpkins in Western Australia

    22 May 2014

    Jarrahdale, Japanese and butternut pumpkins are grown in Kununurra, Carnarvon and the south-west of Western Australia to supply the local market and eastern Australia.

  • Green beans

    Growing fresh runner and dwarf beans in Western Australia

    22 September 2014

    Two types of fresh beans are grown in Western Australia — climbing or runner beans, and dwarf or French beans.

  • A barley grain with some of the husk removed showing a blue tinge to the layer below the husk, the aleurone layer

    Barley: blue aleurone

    7 January 2014

    A blue colouring in the aleurone layer of barley grain (the layer immediately below the husk) may be present in some varieties.

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