Partnership and collaboration

Researchers have unravelled the mystery of sugarcane genetics, finding the crop’s genome is three times the size of the human genome and more complex.

More focus on integrating research into drought tolerance in crops is essential to prevent the threat to global food security, according to international researchers.

Australian authorities are on high alert amid the spread of lumpy skin disease in cattle and buffalo across South-East Asia. While Australia remains free of the disease, the virus is likely to breach our borders at some stage.

Dr Hannah Robinson’s two-year Industry Fellowship at The University of Queensland and InterGrain has helped speed up the translation of research into commercial breeding to develop improved cereal crop varieties.

An international expedition to North Queensland to collect wild banana samples could be the key to eradicating global threats to the edible version of the popular fruit.

Connection is key for the new Associate Professor in Animal Biotechnology at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation.

Researchers from The University of Queensland have developed a treatment that can both prevent and cure infection caused by an invasive fungal disease devastating native Australian plants.

A bushfood staple could be the centre of a new Indigenous industry, according to a University of Queensland researcher.

Highly regarded agricultural identity Richard Heath will head the newly funded Zero Net Emissions Agricultural Cooperative Research Centre (ZNE-Ag CRC) as it begins its work to reduce emissions in Australian agriculture.

In only a few years, myrtle rust has changed ecosystems by destroying trees and their canopies, wiped out whole species in certain areas, and taken an economic toll on industries that grow trees such as lemon-scented myrtle and tea tree. We have used RNA technology similar to that in COVID vaccines to create a highly targeted treatment for myrtle rust: a spray that can restore even severely infected trees to health in around six weeks.