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New premium-quality bread wheat breeding joint venture
Christchurch, New Zealand
December 7, 2005

New premium-quality bread wheats are the aim of a new joint venture partnership between Luisetti Seeds and Crop & Food Research.

This arrangement formalises a strong breeding partnership and will strengthen the local wheat industry, says Vincent Luisetti of Luisetti Seeds.

“New Zealand growers rely on wheat cultivars selected for local conditions because they are more robust and are often less susceptible to stripe rust, Septoria and brown rust than wheats sourced internationally.”

Crop & Food Research’s Cropseed manager, Sam White, says the partnership will breed finished cultivars for the domestic milling market.

“In recent times, Crown funding has been directed towards longer term goals – developing new genetic traits for ‘tomorrow’ rather than finished cultivars required by growers and millers ‘today’.

“Luisetti’s funding complements that from the New Zealand Flour Millers’ Association and Crop & Food Research’s reinvestment of cultivar royalties,” he says.

Ashburton Grain Consolidators Ltd will be contributing financially and sub-contracting to Luisetti Seeds to market the new cultivars.

Source: Crop & Food Research's quarterly newsletter, issue 51, 2005

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