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Avengers unite to fight wheat rust

We’re taking an Avengers approach — we’ve combined several super-powered, rust-resistance genes together to fight wheat stem rust. Who will win the battle?

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Science is in the genes, for our award-winning geneticist

Can you inherit a love of science? How do you make a weed less 'weedy'? What do these questions have to do with each other? There's only one way to find out.

Farming

Climate work-around could boost Australian wheat yields

We’re working to adapt Australian wheat to a changing climate through new genetics and farming practices.

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Powerful plants and cosmic wonders: meet our honourable scientists

Meet the three CSIRO researchers who have contributed game-changing science, rounding out the Australia Day Honours list this year.

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Tech

Measuring the worth of rural properties

New tech makes it easy to see a whole bunch of information about a farm in the same place at the same time and is set to revolutionise how decisions and investments are made.

Looking for a low-gluten beer? Here’s what you need to know

Is it really possible to avoid gluten if you like a frothy? Do different types of beers have different levels of gluten? And how accurate are the tests?

Future foods could make you healthier, and the planet greener

Could future foods such as insects, seaweed and lab-grown meat feed us in both an environmentally sustainable and healthy way?

Farming

Global strategies needed to combat antibiotic and pesticide resistance

Resistance to antibiotics and pesticides is rising at alarming rates. Global strategies, such as those developed for Australia’s cotton industry, to maintain ‘susceptible’ insects, are key in our fight against resistance.

Preventing farmageddon: new startup targets fruit fly

Our former researchers have founded RapidAIM to take their revolutionary fruit fly-monitoring technology to the world.

Healthier rice is extra nice

Everybody loves rice. Everybody loves to be healthy. We’ve discovered a way to combine those two loves.

Top four food trends you’ll soon see on supermarket shelves

Some food trends come and go (we’re looking at you salted caramel) but some are much more long-term because they’re based on science.

Climate change will reshape the world’s agricultural trade

Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.

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