Professor Lee Hickey from UQ's Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation said AI offered opportunities to accelerate the development of high performing plants and animals for better farm sustainability and profitability., but the big challenge is how we turn this colossal amount of data into knowledge to support smarter decisions in the breeding process," Professor Hickey said.
Professor Hayes said the fourth application of AI was shifting the way researchers approached breeding. "The crosses needed to bring together the AI selected beneficial segments can be progressed rapidly using 'speed breeding' which allows researchers to turn over multiple generations very quickly.