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.
Dr Eric Dinglasan got his first taste for sugarcane as a plant pathologist inspecting imported cane in post-entry quarantine in the Philippines. Many of the varieties came from Sugar Research Australia (SRA).
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.
Preliminary findings from Kids+, the largest goat industry research project ever undertaken in Australia, have flagged key issues for goatmeat producers to consider when addressing herd fertility.
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.
