Who is using and improving DArT technology?
Farmers and plant breeders in Australia have supported more development of DArT technology. This has been made possible through proposals funded to CAMBIA by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), Horticulture Australia, and Monticello Research. Many of the patent applications were purposely abandoned after publication, to allow the technology into the public domain. Subject to the option of the inventors there are still patents in a few countries, which may be used under non-exclusive open source licenses. The “open source” provision is intended to allow all users of the technology to reap the benefit of each others’ use and improvement of the technology. Additional research using DArT technology has been reported by groups based in New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sri Lanka, Brasil, Mexico and South Africa. It has been used on plant species ranging from barley to Eucalyptus. DArT technol
