Partnership and collaboration

There’s nothing quite like an Aussie-style Christmas lunch or dinner — fresh seafood, roast meats, vibrant salads and summer-time desserts enjoyed with family and friends. For many, it’s a day to indulge and savour every delicious bite. But the most wonderful time of the year is also an opportunity to reflect on how we can consume more sustainably, particularly when it comes to the all-important Christmas feast.

Efforts to address rising global food demand are under the spotlight after the launch of the ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding.

What does a sustainable diet taste like, and can it still be delicious?

University of Queensland researchers are setting the agenda for breeding high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops and low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency as they search for the ultimate genotype.

A three-year pilot project led by The University of Queensland has shown installing shade structures in largely treeless paddocks could increase calf survival rates.

A University of Queensland research team has turned its attention to new threats to Australia’s $280 million macadamia harvest, after solving significant disease management issues in an earlier project.

A shared vision to boost Australia’s Indigenous-led bushfood industry is the key to the partnership between The University of Queensland and Roogenic, which makes products with Australian plants that have nutritional and health properties.

A tissue-culture propagation technology developed at The University of Queensland that yields hundreds of plants from a single cutting will bolster avocado production across Latin America.

The sustainable manufacture of bio-based herbicides is the target of a $1.3 million international collaboration initiated by the Global Bioeconomy Alliance (GBA).

The world’s foremost researchers and plant breeders will share the latest breakthroughs at the 11th International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics in Brisbane. Conference chair and UQ Professor Michael Udvardi said the gathering from September 30 to October 3 would shape strategies to improve legumes for sustainable food and feed production.