Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Centre for Crop Science

  • Professor Ian Godwin

    Professor and Director, Centre for Crop Science & Professor and Academic Centre Director
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
    Centre Director of Centre for Crop Science
    Centre for Crop Science

  • Professor Graeme Hammer

    Affiliate of ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
    ARC COE for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture
    Emeritus Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

  • Professor Christine Beveridge

    Director, Centre for Horticultural Science
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
    UQ Laureate Fellow
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability

  • Professor Michael Bell

    Chair in Tropical Agronomy
    School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
    Professorial Research Fellow in Tropical Agronomy
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

  • Hon Assoc Professor Ralf Dietzgen

    Honorary Associate Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Rahul Chandora

    Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia. Scientists have now found an odd trait in its DNA

    Plants were a central part of the economy of Mithaka people, with at least 200 different species used for food, medicine, materials and ceremonial purposes. In a new paper published in Nature Communications, we reveal important new information about the genetic complexity of one particular food source from the region: channel millet.
  • Professor Emma Mace

    Ethiopia-UQ partnership strengthens future crop

    Published on: 25 June 2026
    Ethiopia’s capacity to improve crop varieties for farmers has been boosted by a 5-year breeding modernisation partnership with The University of Queensland.

  • Future food needs new underground strategy

    Published on: 20 April 2026
    A greater focus on roots during plant breeding could ensure staple grain crops continue to feed the world as recycled nutrients substitute conventional fertilisers in the future, a University of Queensland study has found.
  • Researcher Dr Brad Campbell with plants inside a glasshouse

    New taro variety offers the ‘best of both worlds’ amid climate change

    Published on: 9 April 2026
    A breakthrough in breeding hybrids of one of Papua New Guinea’s most culturally significant crops - Taro could solve growing problems caused by climate change in the Pacific nation.
  • woman sitting in front of Jacaranda in sandstone court

    A one pot process to convert sugarcane waste to jet fuel

    Published on: 27 March 2026
    Converting sugarcane waste to biofuel could become more environmentally friendly and cost effective, thanks to a joint project at The University of Queensland and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

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