WallaceCowling

Professor in plant breeding

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@YoselinBenAlf @uwanews @SiboZimba @UniversityLeeds Great day with Leeds Univ colleagues motivated to work on World Universities Network project on holistic plant science to combat climate change- thank you colleagues. @IOA_UWA @UWAresearch

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@MeldrumRyan @AlanMeldrum_GGL Fantastic achievements over those short years Alan!! Great to share some of the experiences with you in helping to improve agriculture in WA! Cheers, Wallace

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@IanJMackay Ian, I know your work in crop breeding and genetics and devastated to hear this news, but you are incredibly brave to tell us all. You are such a great contributor to plant breeding. Wallace Cowling (Univ Western Australia)

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski Just to confirm, these are winter genotypes....not spring? Long days may partially compensate for lack of vernalisation received in the 5-week treatment, if it is not a strong winter type. I am lucky, only have to deal with spring types!!

[The UWA Institute of Agriculture @IOA_UWA]

The research, recently published in the international journal @Plants_MDPI (read here: https://t.co/Thhq3SBDDr), was funded by the plant breeding company Norddeutsche Pflanzenzucht Hans-Georg Lembke KG #NPZ as part of their canola pre-breeding research agreement with @uwanews.

[Sandeep K. Barwal @_SandeepBarwal]

Many many congratulations Prof. Siddique Sir... @KadambotS for achieving h-index 100- in Agricultural Research. @IOA_UWA @uwanews @UWAresearch...🎊🎊💐🎊🎊

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski It is a symbol of crossing within a closed flower; which nicely describes self-pollination.

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@perth_meso_dr @camthom45 @UWAresearch @uwanews Great job Campbell and you will be greatly missed. I think Kellie and I have seen you go through the entire journey at UWA at least from postgrad years!! Wallace Cowling

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski I remember the feeling of terror before my first class, and the realisation that I knew very little about the genetics behind plant breeding...hopefully I have taught myself by teaching others!

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

https://t.co/NxDbE52ArH

[The UWA Institute of Agriculture @IOA_UWA]

At the same site, @IOA_UWA Assoc/Director Prof @CowlingWallace celebrated the 20th anniversary of the partnership between @uwanews & NPZ, which has resulted in more than 37 valuable commercial canola cultivars for 🇦🇺 farmers. Read the article for more ⬇️ https://t.co/WYRnBpRP8u

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@PdraicFlood @JRutkoski That's what we aim for in plant and animal breeding.....there are ways to minimise drift/loss of beneficial minor alleles, and maximise long-term genetic gain in diverse populations through optimum mating designs.

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski @PdraicFlood Actually, heritability increases during selection cycles until the average frequency of alleles responding to selection increases above 0.5 in the population, and then heritability declines. That is because additive variance increases as minor allele frequency increases.

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@IOA_UWA @KadambotS @perth_meso_dr @uwanews @UWAresearch @SMS_UWA @SAgE_UWA @BiolSci_UWA @UWARidgefield @farmweekly @Countryman1885 Great talks reflecting Graeme Martin’s leadership and inspiration to students, staff, and colleagues. We’ll do be Graeme!

[The UWA Institute of Agriculture @IOA_UWA]

We are thrilled to announce that Agricultural Sciences at #UWA has moved up in the 2022 @ShanghaiRanking from 16th to 15th in the world 🌏 AND maintained our #1 position in Australia! 🎉Full credit & congratulations to the hard-working @UWAresearch-ers & teaching staff! #uwanews

[The UWA Institute of Agriculture @IOA_UWA]

Congratulations to @IOA_UWA Director H/Prof @KadambotS who is one of three finalists for the prestigious #ScientistoftheYear Award in the 2022 Premier @MarkMcGowanMP's Science Awards! 🎉 Winners will be announced on August 15. For more information, visit: https://t.co/4iUkNFddrK

[Kadambot Siddique @KadambotS]

Lasting impact of heat stress in wheat at meosis. Just published in Agronomy@MDPI from @UWAresearch @IOA_UWA

https://t.co/tueVGzojTE

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski @McGillHaricots Valerio’s question is very important because genomic selection by itself is not enough. Need optimised mating designs for long term genetic gain and avoid population inbreeding.

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski @McGillHaricots Ah ha, now I see it. Valerie’s question regarding empirical results with genomic selection. There are very few. I am currently writing up genetic gain empirical results in canola breeding and aim to submit next month, based on 4 x 2-year cycles of early generation selection EBVs

[WallaceCowling @CowlingWallace]

@JRutkoski @McGillHaricots Hi Jessica, I am slow to move on Twitter, so not sure what you were referring to here. It was 2 months ago. Cheers, Wallace