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The real cost of pesticides in Australia’s food boom

By Nancy Schellhorn, Spatial Ecology Team Leader; Sarina Macfadyen, Research Scientist and Anna Renwick, Research Ecologist at University of Queensland More than […]

Art and science cross-pollinate

Meet the people who collaborated with artist Eleanor Gates-Stuart on StellrScope. You can click on the images to read their […]

Extract DNA from a banana!

DNA smoothie anyone? Check out the latest video from Helix@CSIRO, explaining how to extract DNA from a banana.

The time is ripe

By Mikayla Keen While many of you are participating in Dry July our grape scientists are pressing onwards, pouring more […]

Worm turns for cotton pest as Australia breeds in resistance

By Sharon Downes, Team Leader, Resistance Evolution. Among Australia’s key cotton pests is the global insect nemesis of agriculture, Helicoverpa armigera. […]

Lasers, blimps and golf buggies… for better rice

Part of our Smart Farming series When we explain to people that we continue to do a lot of research […]

Aussie farmers take a byte out of Big Data

Forget the Internet of Things, this week we are all about the Internet of cows, sheep and oysters! From monitoring […]

Australia’s farming future: doing more with less water

By John Passioura, Honorary Research Fellow, Plant Industry. Changing climate, drought and urban expansion threaten the yield of Australia’s wheat. But changes […]

Cotton on to the awesomeness of plants

Happy Fascination of Plants Day! That is, if you’re not too busy celebrating Sea Monkey Day, Museum Day, or preparing […]

A field of ripe golden wheat under a blue sky

Modern technology reveals the secrets of centuries of wheat breeding

By Arwen Cross People have been growing wheat since around 8000 BC, and we’ve used selective breeding to make sure […]

A toast to Danie Krige

By Kylie Williams The news has been dominated by the passing of Margaret Thatcher and the impact that ‘Thatcherism’ had […]

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