What is acacia? No plants…no humanity – call for action And other stories from the XVIII International Botanical Congress Over 2,000 plant scientists from 73 nations adopted a series of motions …
XVIII International Botanical Congress resolutions
Preamble As many as two-thirds of the world’s 350,000 plant species are in danger of extinction in nature during the course of the 21st century. Human beings depend on plants for almost every aspect …
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An end to rust, war on willows, protecting the potato and more – Friday at the International Botanical Congress
An end to rust? iPhones talking to the trees Protecting the potato War on willows …
The Atlas of Living Australia
Posted on behalf of Lynne Sealie, CSIRO The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and Museum Victoria (MV) are proud to announce the launch of the Australian Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). …
Cellulose: from paper planes to powering jet planes
30% of US transport fuelled by plants by 2030 The man who heads up the world’s largest integrated bioenergy research institute is pretty confident the US will meet its target of producing 30 per cent …
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Saving the world’s wheat from rusting
Australia’s wheat crop looks to have been saved from a devastating infestation of rust—for now. In 1999 a new strain of stem rust, a devastating fungal disease of wheat, emerged in Uganda. It has …
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War on Willows
Posted on behalf of CSIRO, Ref 11/82 Willows are major environmental weeds of riverbank habitats across much of south-eastern Australia. They obstruct water flow, increase water temperature, change …
Thursday's stories at the Botanic Congress
At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million …
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Thursday’s stories at the Botanic Congress
At the Botanical Congress today Secrets of a voodoo plant revealed – it could reshape Australian crops, and rescue African farmers from a disastrous plant parasite How cotton was born: a million …
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What’s living in your street?
The Atlas of Living Australia will tell you. Within 5 km of News Limited in Holt Street, Sydney for example there are reports of at least 3,500 different animal species, and 2,400 plant …
Fighting famine with botany
A family of plant hormones, known as the strigolactones has provided researchers with a new lead in the fight against one of the world’s most devastating plant parasites, the African witchweed or …
Shaping the plants of the future
A hormone that determines the size and shape of crops could improve harvests, and help in the control of a vampire plant according to Queensland researchers presenting their work today at the …