Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Centre for Crop Science

  • Emeritus Professor Roger Swift

    Emeritus Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

  • Professor Bhagirath Chauhan

    Professor (Weed Science)
    School of Agriculture and Food Sciences
    Professorial Research Fellow
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

  • Dr Natasha Hungerford

    Senior Research Fellow
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
    Affiliate Senior Research Fellow of School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences
    School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences

  • Honorary Professor Lynne McIntyre

    Honorary Professor
    Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation
  • Dr Alison Kelly

    Dr Alison Kelly

    Adjunct Associate Professor
    Centre for Nutrition & Food Sciences (QAAFI)
    Senior Research Fellow in Statistic
    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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