Collaboration key to ultimate genotypes in plants and livestock
宅男导航 researchers are setting the agenda for breeding high yield, heat tolerant and disease-resistant crops and low emission cattle with excellent feed conversion efficiency as they search for the ultimate genotype.
20 November 2024
Mitigating heat stress in heifers to prevent stock losses
A three-year pilot project led by 宅男导航 has shown installing shade structures in largely treeless paddocks could increase calf survival rates.
19 November 2024
Fermenting a future for food in Australia
Forming a National Food Plan and appointing a food minister are among the key recommendations of a white paper into growing a precision fermentation industry in Australia.
18 November 2024
Discovering the secrets of how one of the world鈥檚 most popular prawn species produces sperm and transfers it to create the next generation could help free aquaculture from reliance on brood stock from the wild.
16 May 2016
Genomic selection could provide massive productivity gains to Australia鈥檚 beef industry, with a University of Queensland genomics expert focusing his research on improving the $5 billion a year sector.
11 May 2016
Australian cattle farming could become safer and cheaper thanks to the work of an animal genetics team at 宅男导航.
18 April 2016
New degradable plastic film that is less than the width of a human hair is helping to regenerate native trees and establish high-value crops.
9 March 2016
Two University of Queensland law students have been putting their skills to the test in the Malaysian state of Sabah, in Borneo, through pro bono legal work.
2 March 2016
Bigger will definitely be better for more than 3000 students who plant sunflowers on Tuesday (23 February) in the 2016 University of Queensland Sunflower competition.
18 February 2016
Forests are the lungs of the planet, so surely planting more of them could only be a good thing.
15 February 2016
A non-invasive pregnancy test for tigers developed at 宅男导航 has played a key role in the latest tiger cub births at Dreamworld on Queensland鈥檚 Gold Coast.
10 February 2016
宅男导航 and Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries researchers have developed a clean and safe insecticide to combat nuisance flies in cattle feedlots, using spores of a naturally occurring fungi.
21 January 2016
Australia鈥檚 critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats might not know it yet, but researchers from 宅男导航 are working on a wee solution to their population problems.
6 January 2016
A nutritionally-enhanced sweet corn developed at 宅男导航 to help prevent blindness in the elderly has won a national innovation award.
1 December 2015
Climate forecasts to 2050 suggest sorghum is set to remain Queensland鈥檚 top crop as temperatures rise and rainfall decreases across the State.
16 November 2015
In a world first, researchers from 宅男导航 have identified a key gene in barley that enables the plant to access water stored deep in the soil during droughts.
28 October 2015
Does a doorhandle or a keyboard have more germs? 宅男导航’s Dr Alysha Elliott swabbed people’s hands and common workplace surfaces to expose some of the germiest places around the office, as part of Global...
15 October 2015
Until 1997, water supplies in downtown Manila were beset with infrastructure problems such as leaks, widespread unauthorised access and contamination.
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