Agriculture Victoria is calling on growers and agronomists to contribute to a national project seeking to determine the potential soil-borne diseases of pulse and oilseed crops.
Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating drought-tolerant grape varieties from Cyprus for their suitability for Australian conditions.
James Cook University is sharing its world-class expertise and innovation with the United Arab Emirates, to address challenges such as food security that are confronting marginal environments.
There is often a perception that many businesses put profit first and the environment a distant second, but new research from the University of South Australia suggests companies prioritising a healthy planet are now the ones reaping the financial rewards.
CQUniversity Australia has built the world’s first mango auto-harvester, with field trials at Yeppoon of the first prototype achieving a 75 per cent efficiency in automatically identifying and picking fruit in view.
Microplastics can travel through the atmosphere and end up in regions far from their original emission source, reports a paper published online in Nature Geoscience.
Increasing expression of a protein involved in photosynthesis in tobacco can reduce the amount of water the plants lose by 25%, according to a study in Nature Communications. The findings could have implications for increasing crop production with limited water supplies.
World-first QUT research that has produced a golden-orange fleshed banana, rich in pro-vitamin A, has been published in the prestigious Plant Biotechnology Journal.
Griffith University and agricultural product company Agnova Technologies have collaborated to produce Fruition, the nation’s first non-toxic response to fruit flies.
A team of Australian researchers will contribute to a G20 nations plan to strengthen future, global food security by making more energy efficient wheat.
A new type of high-starch low-methane rice has been developed with a view to simultaneously boosting crop yield and reducing anthropogenically driven methane emissions. The plant is described in Nature.