The Australian cider industry is securing its future by checking the identity of cider apple varieties grown across Australia after research reveals some may be incorrectly named.
A high-tech plant lab at a Melbourne high school bares the distinctive pinked-hued stamp of Professor Neena Mitter and her team at The University of Queensland.
The University of Queensland (UQ) is working with Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) to develop guidelines to help Australian grain growers decide when and how to treat fall armyworm (FAW) to save their crops and finances.
Stingless bees are a common sight in northern and eastern Australia. The special honey they produce doesn’t meet current national and international food standards for honey, due largely to differences in sugar composition.
Researchers at The University of Queensland and CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have shown bees can help prove Australia’s valuable avocado crop is free of a pathogen that could be a barrier to exports.
QAAFI PhD candidate Tori Millsteed is one of an elite group named as a 2023 Westpac Future Leader for her research on boosting crop yields through genetics.
Eleven researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) have been awarded more than $3.1 million through the 2022 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowships.
An introduced weed that already costs Australian grain growers more than $90 million a year is becoming an even bigger threat according to University of Queensland-led research.
The impacts of a venereal disease that causes cattle infertility and costs the industry hundreds of millions of dollars could be mitigated by an experimental vaccine created at The University of Queensland.