Professor Fiona Doohan:

In terms of Irish crops and landraces, we have access to and research, as part of a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine-funded project, what we call the heritage Irish wheat, barley and oats variety. We examine those varieties for traits we may have lost through current breeding. These are what are called landraces varieties grown in Ireland 150 years ago. Through the UK and places such as the John Innes Centre, we have excellent access to what is called the Watkins collection, as well as collections of cereals that are very well characterised over a long period of time, probably about 200 years. Does that answer the Senator's question?