An environmentally friendly spray that targets and kills one of cotton's (and the world’s) most damaging agricultural pests - Silverleaf whitefly - has been created by scientists at The University of Queensland.
Pineapple crop losses caused by root rot may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new research on environmentally friendly biofungicides at The University of Queensland.
A magic mushroom unknown to science has been detected in soil samples taken from Kakadu and Litchfield national parks in Australia's rugged Northern Territory.
At a nursery in the far reaches of Northern NSW, Australian technology is turning the avocado industry on its head. For the past six years scientists have been working with the Anderson Horticulture nursery and other avocado growers to produce tissue-culture-based avocado clonal plants.
Dr Anthony van Herwaarden, Head of Science and Strategy at Queensland Futures Institute and Casual Research Scientist at Centre of Horticultural Science, will present a QAAFI Science Seminar
An endangered native tree with a rare ability to accumulate normally toxic levels of metals in its leaves is being frozen in liquid nitrogen at The University of Queensland in a bid to conserve the species.
