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 …
How cotton was born
A million year-old mating opens up an improved future A coming together and genetic merging of an American plant with an African or Asian plant one or two million years ago produced the ancestor of …
Growing drugs, Identify life and make way for microbes. Wednesday at Botanical Congress
Queensland researchers believe future cancer drugs could be grown in sunflowers and ultimately delivered as a seed ‘pill’. They’ve got a long way to go, but the concept illustrates the power of …
Could we grow drugs using sunflowers?
Queensland researchers believe future cancer drugs could be grown in sunflowers and ultimately delivered as a seed ‘pill’. They’re a long way from that outcome. But, as they reported to the XVIII …
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Make way for the microbes?
Our civilisation is built on plants – they provide food, shelter, fuel and medicine. Can we rely on them in the future? Or will it be the era of the microbes. …
IdentifyLife and Atlas of Living Australia joint release
Posted on behalf of Lynne Sealie, Communication Manager, Atlas of Living Australia. Photos available. “The beginning of wisdom is to call a thing by its right name.” Chinese proverb IdentifyLife …
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Tuesday at the International Botanical Congress
The world’s favourite tree The world loves our eucalypts. Now Eucalyptus had become the world’s favourite tree for farming and today in Melbourne its genome is revealed at the International …
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