All posts tagged "agriculture"
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613News and ViewsThree day, online national fruit fly symposium slated for May 4 2021
The ongoing battle against fruit fly, which continues to threaten over half of Australia’s $13 billion horticulture sector and the 60,000 people...
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647ResearchUWA researchers discover the cause of devastating crop disease
Researchers at The University of Western Australia have identified the cause of the devastating faba bean gall disease for the first time,...
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503News and Views$8 million to be poured into drought resilience in agriculture
A ‘drought hub’ will be established in Tasmania to improve regional drought resilience, with the support of $8 million in funding from...
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553ScienceProject evaluating ‘eyes in the sky’ technology to detect crop pests
Crop surveillance from the skies is being explored as a means to improve pest management strategies by a new Grains Science Partnership...
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703News and ViewsUWA weed chipper research awarded Most Outstanding Paper
A paper capturing the research behind a unique mechanical weed chipper developed by The University of Western Australia and The University of...
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673ResearchDigging up solutions to soilborne constraints to boost grain yields
A series of projects researching how soil amelioration affects soil biology is unearthing new information, as it digs deeper into the impact...
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697News and ViewsLupin genetic breakthrough opens the door to improved breeding outcomes
A key to unlocking the development of superior lupins has been discovered by local scientists, which should open the door to the...
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929News and ViewsThermal energy storage the key to reducing agricultural food pollution
UniSA thermal energy researcher Professor Frank Bruno has been awarded almost $1 million by the Federal Government to find a solution to...
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843News and ViewsAgriFutures Horizon Scholarship applications open
Applications for the 2021 AgriFutures Horizon Scholarship Program are now open. Students entering their final two years of an undergraduate degree who...
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1.4KScienceTurning a moment into a movement: mobilising 25-million biosecurity warriors
With COVID-19 and other biosecurity risks placing unprecedented pressure on our biosecurity system, more than 250 champions from across Australia’s and New...
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Three University of Tasmania researchers have been awarded prestigious 2022 Fulbright Scholarships that will allow them to further their research through academic and cultural exchange in the United States. Professor of Plant Biology Tim Brodribb leads a lab group that focuses on the vulnerabilities...
This project will provide comprehensive driving data and analysis tools for the design and testing of an autonomous vehicles (AV) software stack. The data collection platform is an urban vehicle retrofitted with the latest AV sensors. The data will be obtained from local NSW scenarios such as Sydney...
When you live in the driest State in the driest country in the world, bushfires are an unfortunate, and all-too-regular part of life. Learning how to survive such emergencies is important for all people, but especially for our youngest citizens. Now, a new virtual reality (VR) experience developed b...
Water quality in the Great Barrier Reef will be improved thanks to a multimillion-dollar collaboration between The University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Environment and Science. The newly launched Reef Catchments Science Partnership (RCSP), led by UQ’s Associate Professor Micha...
A new University of Queensland research centre dedicated to helping people with aphasia will transform the recovery journey for thousands of Australians and their families. Aphasia, a condition experienced by more than 140,000 Australians, which affects a person’s ability to communicate and typica...
Fulbright support for tracking plant stress and exploring secular belief systems https://t.co/ZCHuIM08Pt
Data analytics for development and testing of AVs on urban roads https://t.co/gU8NpKfF0G
Solar car visit set to recharge the west
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