ARC Research Hub for advanced breeding to transform prawn aquaculture (Old ID 21529)
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Project Seadragon will establish the world's largest black tiger prawn farm, significantly boosting the Australian aquaculture sector. To operate with maximum efficiency and maintain international competitiveness, Project Seadragon will require transformative technologies in advanced animal breeding to produce high-yielding, genetically improved, farm strains. The ARC ITRH will coalesce world-leading animal geneticists, research and service providers, and Australia's largest prawn farm, and gather the genomic resources, commercial phenotypic data, and apply cutting-edge genetic and genomic selection methodologies, leading to the most advanced and industry transformative improvement program for any aquaculture species globally.
Date
01 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2020
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Aquaculture;Prawns;Selective Breeding
Funding Body
Australian Research Council
Amount
4979922
Project Team
Kyall Zenger