Innovating Vanilla for advanced climate smart production systems. Australian Vanilla Plantations is passionate to develop vanilla plants with superior growth, production, end-product protocols and met

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Innovating Vanilla for advanced climate smart production systems. Australian Vanilla Plantations is passionate to develop vanilla plants with superior growth, production, end-product protocols and methodologies for the Australian vanilla industry. However, industry remains hamstrung by one major key challenge: Lack of secure supply of high quality, disease-free propagation material to support dome roll-out and expansion. This fellowship will develop vanilla cultivars by discovering key candidate genes of value to the vanilla industry, i.e. shorter internodes, disease resistance, higher yields, longer flowering periods, it will also develop novel in vitro breeding and improved technologies for vanilla and deliver elite plants to indoor vanilla farms using the Queensland-invented propagation technology. . Scheme: Early Career Industry Fellowships. Field: 3008 - Horticultural Production. Lead: Dr Christopher O'Brien