CSIRO Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship in Multi-purpose Legume Crops for Flexible Farming Systems

Acknowledgement of Country CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation Child Safety CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy. The Opportunity Do you have a PhD in farming systems science, crop and pasture science, plant genetics or livestock science? Research the role of multi-purpose legume crops in enhancing the resilience and profitability of cropping and livestock enterprises Join the CSIRO Agriculture and Food group to explore options to change the way that lupins are used within farming systems CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.   We are thrilled to be able to deliver on the commitment we made in our strategy to invest in frontier science with the new CSIRO Agriculture & Food Winanga-y Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. The word Winanga-y (pronounced win-na-gnay) is a cultural asset gifted by the Gomeroi Nation in Myall Vale to CSIRO's Agriculture and Food Business Unit to name the Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme. Winanga-y means to understand, know, remember, and think.   The CERC Fellow will investigate innovative uses of legume crops in Australian farming systems to improve farm enterprise resilience, sustainability and profitability. Lupins are an important legume crop in southern Australia. They support the profitability and sustainability of farming enterprises through grain production, biological nitrogen fixation, high quality livestock feed, and providing a weed and disease break within crop rotations. Historically lupin breeding has focused on high grain yields with little selection for traits associated with broader farming system benefits.    The CERC Fellow will take a Genotype X Environment X Management approach to quantify opportunities to boost farm profitability through applying a range of scenarios such as early season grazing, forage conservation, late season grazing, intercropping with other species and traditional grain production. Grain yield, feeding value to sheep, nitrogen fixation and carbon balance will be considered using farming systems models. The outcome of the project will be an understanding of how flexible management practices for novel lupin germplasm could drive farm resilience and sustainability. Your duties will include: Working with the available germplasm, genetic and genomic resources, experienced growers and technicians, agronomists, plant physiologists, livestock nutritionists, soil scientists and crop/livestock modellers to assess the characteristics of lupin that underpin alternative drivers of value from the…

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