Centre for Horticultural Science

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement.

Years of scouring the bush and breeding work at The University of Queensland have resulted in new varieties of a native Australian plant valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry.

A University of Queensland research team has turned its attention to new threats to Australia’s $280 million macadamia harvest, after solving significant disease management issues in an earlier project.

A tissue-culture propagation technology developed at The University of Queensland that yields hundreds of plants from a single cutting will bolster avocado production across Latin America.

A high-tech building with rooms to mimic environments from rainforests to deserts will help Australian plant scientists and industry improve crop productivity and secure future food supplies.