Partnership and collaboration

Australia is the world’s second largest producer of macadamia, with cultivation of 17,000 hectares in Queensland and New South Wales.  Although it is native to Australia, most of the world’s nuts are produced from cultivars bred in Hawaii.  The QAAFI-led macadamia breeding program aims to change this anomaly. 

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.

University of Queensland researchers have found a way to more efficiently convert sugarcane into a building block of aviation fuel and other products.

Portable sequencing technology used to track the spread of COVID-19 is now showing promise as a cost-effective way of determining breeding values directly on cattle properties.

Changing the diet of pregnant sows could be the key to easing heat stress and its resultant drop in productivity in the Australian pork industry.

Accelerating genetic gain in grain crops will be the subject of a 15-million dollar International Research Training Group (IRTG) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in association with The University of Queensland.

Researchers from The University of Queensland have identified two desirable traits in macadamia trees to make orchards more productive and profitable.