Centre for Crop Science

Dr Owen Powell, Centre for Crop Science, QAAFI

Breeding with an eye on genes for paddocks

The cutting-edge technology that produced America’s high-yielding, drought-tolerant AQUAmax maize hybrids is being adapted for use in Australian grain breeding programs.

Stacking the odds against awnless barnyard grass

Sometimes herbicide resistance comes with a fitness penalty that growers can use as an Achilles’ Heel to drive down weed seed production. Unfortunately, glyphosate resistance seems to confer no such disadvantage on awnless barnyard grass.

Ms Katrina Hodgson-Kratky

PhD Candidate

Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation

Designer roots for Australian wheat

29 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

in Science Seminars

Dr Samir Alahmad will present a research update about his GRDC funded durum wheat roots project. This research explores the potential to improve durum wheat yield by combining key genes for above- and below-ground physiological traits.

Wheat Outlook: Season crop report for September out now!

Published on: 7 September 2020

Rainfall during August was average for the entire winter cropping region of the state. Furthermore, rainfall during to April to August was below average across most of the cropping region and resulted in limited planting opportunities during the conclusion of the traditional sowing window period.

Engineering sugarcane biomass for production of fuels and other bioproducts

9 September 2020 10:00am–11:00am

in Events Promoted by QAAFI

Join Katrina Hodgson-Kratky, PhD Candidate, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland presenting on her current research.
Meeting future demands for renewable fuels and other bioproducts is dependent on the use of biomass feedstocks from highly productive crops such as sugarcane.

Post-pandemic brave new world of agriculture

Published on: 31 July 2020

Robots working in abattoirs, sky-high vertical farms, more gene-edited foods in our supermarkets and automated farming systems could all help guarantee food supply in the next pandemic.

Understanding weed competitive traits in barley

Published on: 16 July 2020

Barley is known as a fairly competitive crop, but not all genotypes are equal when it comes to weed suppression and weed tolerance.

Opinion: With steak and chips, you still need science

Neil Young once sang "Got mashed potatoes, ain't got no T-bone". It was one of the saddest songs I have ever heard, mostly because the song went for over nine minutes and those were the only lyrics.

InterDrought VI Congress proceedings now online

Published on: 9 June 2020

InterDrought VI Congress proceedings are now freely available online for the scientific community. The website includes 43 presentations, 75 abstracts, 35 posters and a complete book of abstracts from the InterDrought VI Congress scheduled to be held in Mexico City in March 2020. To date over 10,000 members of the scientific community have been invited to watch presentations and read the proceedings online.