Consultants | Dr Paul Brennan
Review Research & Development Investments
Dr Brennan has endeavoured to form review teams that includes growers, marketeers and independent technical experts. The review report provided by CropGen International is framed on the input/output/outcome model with outcomes emphasising economic, environmental and social consequences of the R&D activity.
- The following are some of the reviews that Paul Brennan has undertaken:
- Australian macadamia breeding program (April to June, 2006),
- apple variety commercialisation strategy evaluation (March, 2006),
- strategic planning for the Australian mango industry investment in plant breeding (March 2005),
- canning peach breeding in Victoria (June 2005),
- apple and pear breeding in New Zealand (July 2005),
- risk assessment for the incursion of genetically modified soybean into Australia ( 2005, OGTR),
- sugarcane breeding by the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (1996 and 2002) for SRDC,
- due diligence on wheat breeding at the Plant Breeding Institute, Narrabri (2001),
- strategic planning for kiwifruit breeding in NZ (2003),
- strategic planning for the Australia potato breeding program (2004),
- due diligence wheat breeding at the University of Adelaide (2001),
- wheat breeding by CSIRO, Plant Industry (2001),
- wheat physiology by CSIRO, Plant Industry (2001),
- pre and post release variety evaluation in Victoria, NSW and Queensland (2000 and 2001),
- Australian national program for wheat molecular marker development (1999),
- molecular markers for kiwifruit (2000),
- rice breeding and research in Cambodia and Vietnam (1998) and
- development of transgenic cane grub resistant sugarcane (2002).
