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.
An Australian plant used by First Nations communities as food, animal fodder and medicine, could be used as a nutritious alternative to salt, according to University of Queensland research.
