Dr Fernanda Dreccer

Biography

Professional Areas

• Delivery of wheat germplasm and knowledge-based strategies to increase yield potential and adaptation to abiotic stresses
• Phenomics in breeding

Current Roles

• Senior Research Scientist
  CSIRO

• Project Leader
  Better Irrigated Wheat Germplasm (GRDC)

• Project Leader
  More productive wheat for warmer environments (CSIRO Strategic Investment)

• Project Leader
  Advancing the phenomics of intact grains and spikes to facilitate selection and quality prediction under heat stress (CIMMYT-CSIRO linkage)

• Leader Work Package
  Improving spike development and architecture to increase yield potential in wheat (Bayer)

• Leader Work Package
  Prediction tools to quantify yield loss from frost and heat events in wheat, barley, canola, chickpea and lentil. (2022-2026). Pulse focus, GRDC

• Chair
  Expert Working Group Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress-Wheat Initiative

• Member International Organising Committee
  International Wheat Congress

• Alliance for Wheat Adaptation to Heat and Drought
  Member Scientific Steering Committee

• Member Northern Panel
  GRDC

Academic Qualifications

Achievements and Awards

• 2017-2017

  Agriculture and Food Director’s Award in the category Inclusion and Diversity
  CSIRO

• 2014-

  Fellowship from the Japan Society for the promotion of science
  Japan Society for the promotion of science

• 2011-

  Grant for the promotion of Women in Science
  National Institute for Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Japan

Grants

• 2023-2027

  Developing metabolite and lipid biomarkers to select for reduced frost sensitivity in wheat (GRDC)

• 2021-2026

  Matching adapted pulse genotypes with soil and climate to maximise yield and profit, with manageable risk in Australian cropping systems: a crop ecophysiology approach (GRDC)

• 2021-2026

  Prediction tools to quantify yield loss from frost and heat events in wheat, barley, canola, chickpea and lentil (GRDC)

• 2023-2026

  Accelerated integration of physiology-based wheat traits within a commercial breeding program (GRDC)

• 2023-2026

  Improving the adaptation and profitability of high value pulses (chickpea and lentil) across Australian Agroecological Zones (GRDC)

• 2019-2020

  Adaptation of chickpea and lentil to the Northern region of Australia (GRDC)

• 2014-2018

  Improving spike development and architecture to increase yield potential in wheat (Bayer Crop Science)

• 2012-2018

  Better Irrigated Wheat Germplasm. Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)

• Jan-2017-Dec-2017

  Advancing the phenomics of intact grains and spikes to facilitate selection and quality prediction under heat stress (CIMMYT-CSIRO linkage)

• 2013-2018

  Raising water productivity: trait assessment for Australian rainfed wheat (GRDC)

• 2015-2017

  More productive wheat for warmer environments (CSIRO Strategic Innovation Project)

• 2015-2017

  Spectranomics for Agriculture. Developing the new frontier of high throughput phenotyping and crop monitoring for value added to genetics and agronomy (CSIRO Strategic Innovation Project)

Community and Corporate Citizenship

• 2015-+

  Editorial Board member Scientific Reports (Nature)

• 2018-+

  Editorial Board Crop and Pasture Science

• 2015-+

  Editorial Board member Frontiers in Plant Science

• 2011-2014

  Member Gender equity Committee CSIRO Plant Industry