
Ahsan Asif
@mahsan_asif
Assistant Chickpea Breeder @ChickpeaAus @NSWDPI
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07-07-2010 12:46:33
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Ahsan Asif Kristy Hobson took the opportunity to show the MC the PRR hydroponic screening that is being conducted within growth chambers at TAI. 1000 lines can be screened for PRR at a time.

Our recent experiment for selecting Phytophthora Root Rot resistance lines in a hydroponics screening system. The selected resistant lines were transplanted into pots for generation advancement.Ahsan Asif

Thanks Nicole Baxter for a fun time in the Wagga mud with Ahsan Asif and @Eliza_bethBell .Big shout out to NSW DPI Wagga’s Mark Richards & Neroli Graham and team for a beautifully managed ChickpeaBreedingAustralia trial site in a challenging year.

Chickpea Breeding Australia team at Aus Pulse Conference 2023 ChickpeaBreedingAustralia

An innovative tag team of researchers, breeders and statisticians has successfully developed chickpea germplasm that is tolerant to imidazolinone herbicides 🙌. @nswdpi PIRSA UWA Research UOW ChickpeaBreedingAustralia Kristy Hobson Read more: bit.ly/42R1lOd


Round two of our PhD Student Conference was a huge success! Held this year in Melbourne at the Agriculture Victoria Latrobe facilities, we hosted more than 10 of our PhD students & their supervisors from around Australia who shared insights into their research which is adding value to our


Last Friday we Celebrated 75 years of Tamworth Ag Institute along with an Open day. The event provided a great opportunity to showcase our research to the local community. @nswdpi ChickpeaBreedingAustralia




Happy to share that our research "Rapid and High Throughput Hydroponics Phenotyping Method for Evaluating Chickpea Resistance to Phytophthora Root Rot" has been published in Plants MDPI mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/2… Kudos to MMaED Lab team for the designs and analysis ChickpeaBreedingAustralia

The @nswdpi Tamworth have had the pleasure this week hosting the GRDC Northern Panel 🌿...here they are looking through the state of the art ChickpeaBreedingAustralia facilities, where the breeding magic happens! Thanks for visiting😀 GRDC North Graeme Sandral Kristy Hobson Guy McMullen


We’re excited to launch an Expression of Interest (EOI) form to allow you to apply for a PhD studentship or postdoctoral researcher position within the Australian Research Council Training Centre in Predictive Breeding. With 40 PhD and postdoc projects available across five Australian


CBA talking with high school students from across New England North West NSW to help build a future Agtech workforce. NSW Agriculture NSW Agronomy GRDC


Some phots of our current Ascochyta blight (AB) screening experiment. Over 2500 advanced chickpea genotypes are being screened for AB resistance in the polytunnel. ChickpeaBreedingAustralia NSW Agronomy


The 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG) in Brisbane provided me a great opportunity to showcase ChickpeaBreedingAustralia research and connect with global legume researchers and NSW Agriculture colleagues.



🤝Strengthening research partnerships at Chickpea Breeding Australia! ARC Training Centre CI and University of Queensland QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation crop physiologist Dr Millicent Smith and the heat tolerance project team met with members of GRDC investments on chilling and phenology in


Great to spend the last week in Perth attending the #APBC2025 and Next-Gen Breeders Workshop organised by ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding.
